The Intentionality of Passive Experience: Husserl and A Contemporary Debate

Husserl and Haugeland on Constitution

Both Husserl and Haugeland develop an account of constitution to address the question of how our mental episodes can be about physical objects and thus, through the intentional relation, bridge the gap between the mental and the physical. The respective theories of the two philosophers of very different background show not only how mental episodes can have empirical content, but also how this c...

Intentionality, Politics, And Religion

The idea that intentionality is the distinctive mark of the mental or that only mental phenomena have intentionality emerged in the philosophical tradition after Franz Brentano. Much of contemporary philosophy is dedicated to a rejection of the view that mental phenomena have original intentionality. In other words, main strands of contemporary philosophy seek to naturalize intentionality of th...

Husserl : Intentionality and Indexical Context in the Life - world With Edmund

With Edmund Husserl we reach a kind of culmination of the discussion of the logical and experiential aspects of reference which Mill initiated and to which Frege, Russell and Peirce made important and complementary contributions. In Husserl, as in these others, indexicality makes an appearance as a crucial aspect of the theory of reference, required by natural language reference to objects of i...

From Temporality to Eternity: Three Philosophical Approaches

This article studies the problem of eternal life from a philosophical perspective. It focuses on the approaches of Bergson, Husserl, and Heidegger from contemporary philosophy, and shows that using these three philosophical approaches can better explain certain aspects of revealed theology, such as resurrection of flesh, eternity in a transcendent dimension, and eternal life as the angels in he...

Husserl on Collective Intentionality