Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Edmund Husserl, Todd May and Jerry A. Fodor

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined
12644 Who cares what 'philosophy' is? Most pre-1950 thought doesn't now count as philosophy [Fodor]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 3. Analysis of Preconditions
12633 Definitions often give necessary but not sufficient conditions for an extension [Fodor]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis
2474 It seems likely that analysis of concepts is impossible, but justification can survive without it [Fodor]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 7. Limitations of Analysis
2481 Despite all the efforts of philosophers, nothing can ever be reduced to anything [Fodor]
1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy
21900 Deleuze relies on Spinoza (immanence), Bergson (duration), and difference (Nietzsche) [May]
1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 2. Phenomenology
7614 Bracketing subtracts entailments about external reality from beliefs [Husserl, by Putnam]
6893 Phenomenology aims to describe experience directly, rather than by its origins or causes [Husserl, by Mautner]
22216 Phenomenology studies different types of correlation between consciousness and its objects [Husserl, by Bernet]
21217 Phenomenology needs absolute reflection, without presuppositions [Husserl]
22218 There can only be a science of fluctuating consciousness if it focuses on stable essences [Husserl, by Bernet]
22217 Phenomenology aims to validate objects, on the basis of intentional intuitive experience [Husserl, by Bernet]
22219 Husserl saw transcendental phenomenology as idealist, in its construction of objects [Husserl, by Bernet]
22204 Start philosophising with no preconceptions, from the intuitively non-theoretical self-given [Husserl]
22207 Epoché or 'bracketing' is refraining from judgement, even when some truths are certain [Husserl]
22208 'Bracketing' means no judgements at all about spatio-temporal existence [Husserl]
22210 After everything is bracketed, consciousness still has a unique being of its own [Husserl]
22215 Phenomenology describes consciousness, in the light of pure experiences [Husserl]
3348 If phenomenology is deprived of the synthetic a priori, it is reduced to literature [Benardete,JA on Husserl]
15570 Phenomenology is the science of essences - necessary universal structures for art, representation etc. [Husserl, by Polt]