Phenomenology: A Contemporary Introduction

Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Consciousness
	1.1 Intentionality and Phenomenality
	1.2 Transparency
	1.3 A Dilemma for Phenomenology
	1.4 Transparency and Intentionalism
	1.5 Against Transparency
	1.6 Conclusion
2. Consciousness—A Look Inside
	2.1 Some Discoverable Features of Intentional Experiences
		2.1.1 Intuitive Character
		2.1.2 Positing Character
		2.1.3 Directness
		2.1.4 Originary Character
	2.2 Some Further Features of Consciousness
		2.2.1 The For-Structure of Consciousness
		2.2.2 The Temporal Structure of Consciousness
		2.2.3 The Attentional Structure of Consciousness
	2.3 Conclusion
3. Intentionality and Meaning
	3.1 Some Components of a Linguistic Act
	3.2 What Meanings Aren’t
		3.2.1 The Meaning of an Utterance is not the Utterance’s
Object
		3.2.2 Meanings are not Linguistic Types or Tokens
		3.2.3 Meanings are not Mental Acts
	3.3 The Objectivity of Meanings
	3.4 The Subjectivity of Meanings
	3.5 Meanings as Intentional Properties
	3.6 Objections to the Species View
		3.6.1 Thinking of What Does Not Exist
		3.6.2 The Situated Character of Intentionality
	3.7 Conclusion
4. The Mental Act
	4.1 The Intentional Essence of an Act
	4.2 Quality and Modification-Character
	4.3 Many-rayed, Compound, and Founded Acts
	4.4 The Intentional Relation
		4.4.1 Consciousness and Existence
		4.4.2 Immanence and Transcendence
	4.5 Conclusion
5. Meaning and Intuition
	5.1 Cognitive Fulfillment
	5.2 Authentic Intentionality
		5.2.1 Epistemic and Semantic Authenticity
	5.3 The Ideal Connections Among Meanings, Fulfilling Senses,
and Objects
		5.3.1 Categorial Meaning and Intuition
		5.3.2 Manifolds and Fulfilling Senses
		5.3.3 Meaning Beyond Possible Originary Intuition
	5.4 Ideal Verificationism
		5.4.1 Ideal Verificationism and Realism
		5.4.2 Yoshimi’s Objection
	5.5 Conclusion
6. Perception
	6.1 Adequate and Inadequate Intuition
	6.2 Transcendence and Constancy
	6.3 Transcendence and Horizons
	6.4 Intuitive Fulfillment
	6.5 Manifolds and Objects
	6.6 Why Perception is Direct
	6.7 Qualia and Separatism
	6.8 Conclusion
7. The Essential Inadequacy of Perception
	7.1 The Sense Datum Theory
	7.2 Perspectival Properties
	7.3 The Perception of Depth
	7.4 Sensations
	7.5 Profiles
	7.6 Explaining the Disagreement
	7.7 Perception without Immanence
	7.8 Kinesthetic Sensations and Motor Intentionality
	7.9 Conclusion
8. The Content of Perception
	8.1 Conceptualism
	8.2 Against Conceptualism
		8.2.1 Conceptualism and the Fundamentality of
Perception
		8.2.2 Conceptualism and Intentionality
		8.2.3 Conceptualism, Perception, and Fulfillment
		8.2.4 Perception and Empty Horizons
		8.2.5 Conceptualism and Knowledge
	8.3 Naïve Realism
		8.3.1 Hallucination
		8.3.2 Naïve Realism and the Inadequacy of Perception
	8.4 Perceiving Universals
	8.5 Conclusion
9. Knowledge
	9.1 Phenomenology and the Problem of Skepticism
	9.2 A Characterization of Knowledge
	9.3 Fulfillment Revisited
	9.4 The Principle of All Principles
		9.4.1 The Scope of the Principle of All Principles
		9.4.2 The Necessity of the Principle of All Principles
		9.4.3 The Principle of All Principles Is a Source, not a
Ground, of Knowledge
		9.4.4 The Principle of All Principles and Foundationalism
		9.4.5 The “Myth of the Given”
	9.5 Knowledge by Acquaintance
	9.6 Conclusion
10. Phenomenology
	10.1 The Things Themselves
	10.2 Transcendental Phenomenology
	10.3 The Transcendental Insight
	10.4 The Phenomenological Reduction
		10.4.1 The Hands-Off Principle
		10.4.2 The Reduction and Its Results
	10.5 Two Modest Conceptions of the Reduction
		10.5.1 The Quotation View
		10.5.2 The Bracketing View
	10.6 Conclusion
11. Phenomenology and Transcendental Idealism
	11.1 Phenomenology and the Question of Realism
	11.2 The Tension in Husserl’s Thinking
	11.3 Realism in the Natural Attitude
	11.4 Realism in the Phenomenological Attitude
	11.5 Husserl Against “Realism”
		11.5.1 Husserl Against Naturalistic Realism
	11.6 Transcendental Idealism
	11.7 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index