Husserl on Collective Intentionality

The Intentionality of Passive Experience: Husserl and A Contemporary Debate

Phenom Enology and Ontology

Ontologie ist nur als Phänomenologie möglich. David W oodruff Smith's Husserl (2007) sculpts Husserl, along with Aristotle and Kant, on the Mount Rushmore of 1 W estern philosophy. He does so because all three were great systematic philosophers whose systems radically changed and improved earlier ones (5). Smith says, " Integrating theories in logic, ontology, phenomenology, epistemology, and 2...

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...

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...

Circularity in Searle’s Social Ontology: With a Hegelian Reply

John Searle’s theory of social ontology posits that there are indispensable normative components in the linguistic apparatuses termed status functions, collective intentionality, and collective recognition, all of which, he argues, make the social world. In this paper, I argue that these building blocks of Searle’s social ontology are caught in a petitio of constitutive circularity. Mo...