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James and Husserl: The Foundations of Meaning

" ... a universe unfinished, with doors and windows open to possibilities uncontrollable in advance." 1 A possibility which William James would certainly not have envisaged is a phenomenological reading of his philosophy. Given James's personality, one can easily imagine the explosive...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stevens, R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1974, 1974
Edition:1st ed. 1974
Series:Phaenomenologica, Series Founded by H. L. Van Breda and Published Under the Auspices of the Husserl-Archives
Subjects:
Philosophy, Modern
Early Modern Philosophy
Phenomenology 
Phenomenology
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The correlation between the focus-fringe structure of the object and the subjective modalities of attention and inattention
  • 2. James’s dependence upon the “reflex-arc” theory of human activity
  • 3. The relationship between attention and freedom
  • 4. Husserl’s study of attention as an index of intentionality
  • 5. The spontaneity of the ego’s glance
  • 6. James’s pragmatic justification of the possibility of freedom
  • VIII. The Pragmatic Theory of Truth
  • 1. Pragmatism as a method and as a genetic theory of truth
  • 2. Four different types of truth and of verification
  • 3. Husserl’s definition of truth as the ideal adequation between meaning-intention and meaning fulfillment
  • 4. The retrogression from the self-evidence of judgment to the original founding evidences of the life-world
  • Conclusion — Action: the Final Synthesis
  • 1. A functional view of consciousness
  • 2. The empirical self
  • 3. The pure ego
  • 4. Husserl’s distinction between the human ego and the pure phenomenological ego
  • 5. The auto-constitution of the ego in temporality
  • 6. The ambiguous situation of the body
  • V. Intersubjectivity
  • 1. Two inadequate solutions to the impasse of solipsism
  • 2. Reference to a common spatial horizon
  • 3. The problem of solipsism in the context of transcendental subjectivity
  • 4. The coordination of alien spatial perspectives through imaginative variation
  • VI. The Thing and its Relations: A Theory of the Constitution of the Physical World
  • 1. The positing of thing-patterns within the stream of consciousness
  • 2. The sense of reality
  • 3. The various sub-universes of reality
  • 4. The region of the “thing” as a guiding clue for phenomenological inquiry
  • 5.The return to the concrete fullness of the life-world
  • VII. Attention and Freedom
  • I. The World of Pure Experience
  • 1. The fundamental tenets of Radical Empiricism
  • 2. The absolute sphere of pure experience
  • 3. A comparison with Bergson
  • II. Sensation, Perception, Conception
  • 1. Knowledge by acquaintance and “knowledge about”
  • 2. The recognition of sameness
  • 3. The fringe structure of the stream of consciousness
  • 4. The complementarity of perception and conception
  • 5. Comparison between Husserl’s epoché and James’s return to pure experience
  • III. The Genesis of Space and Time
  • 1. The pre-reflective givenness of spatiality
  • 2. The elaboration of spatial coordinates
  • 3. Husserl’s theory of horizons and James’s fringes
  • 4. The temporal structure of the stream of consciousness
  • 5. The theory of the specious present
  • 6. Primary and secondary remembrance
  • 7. Husserl’s analysis of the now-phase
  • 8. Active and passive genesis
  • IV. The Structure of the Self: A Theory of Personal Identity

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