Questions tagged [phenomenology]
Phenomenology is a philosophical movement associated with Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Paul Sartre. It is also a philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness.
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Does color mixing happen in the phenomenal mind or in the noumenal mind?
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I have been thinking about Qualia (in terms of "color") and the inverted color spectrum, and trying to figure out what mathematical functions are possible for shuffling the color ...
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What are the clearest definitions of phenomenology and existentialism?
I'm trying to get an understanding of phenomenology and existentialism.
My main questions are, what are the precise definitions of phenomenology and existentialism?
Here's my current starting point.
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Is gratitude intentional?
Does gratitude always have an intentional object? I am often grateful for something, e.g. for a good meal or a sunset, but I think I know there's some debate about whether e.g. pain has an intentional ...
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What did Haugeland mean when he said that the grounding of ontical truth can be transcendental only as existential?
This is probably a narrow question, and so it's my job to motivate it. Due to the fact it would be inappropriate to expect many people to have read what I'm referencing, I'll try my best to explain my ...
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René Descartes' and Wittgenstein Doubt: Self and the Existence of Others?
Can one doubt their own existence in the world while simultaneously doubting the existence of others? If one's being isn't present because they aren't present themselves, wouldn't that make it ...
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Private language argument as an argument against the self and so egosim
“The words of this language are to refer to what only the speaker can
know — to his immediate private sensations. So another person cannot
understand the language.”... Immediately after introducing ...
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The different Egos in Husserl's Cartesian Meditations
So I thought I had understood the different 'Egos', mainly the distinction between the psychological and transcendental Ego, in the text. But throughout meditation 2 it becomes a bit confusing to me, ...
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Exploring Methods for Articulating the Ineffable Nature of Emotions: Philosophical Insights Needed
In the realm of human experience, both emotions and colors possess an ineffable quality, challenging our ability to fully articulate them through language. This resemblance highlights a fundamental ...
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Can we create our own essence/values like what Nietzsche proposed as a solution to nihilism - ubermensch?
I watched Jordan Peterson's lecture on Existentialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsoVhKo4UvQ&ab_channel=JordanBPeterson
and he said that Nietzsche's idea of ubermensch - a new human species ...
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The "object" notion of consciousness
Consider the following perspective:
Consciousness is associated with (but not identified with) mental events describing its contents. For example, the thought, "I see a dog" can be ...
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Can art be rated objectively?
I know this question possibly have been asked multiple times am really sorry, but this maybe is a little different.
Art as we know is a simple one way humans express themselves. Using imagination and ...
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Is Conscious Awareness of Phenomenal Experience a Correlate of the Constitutive Activity of Kant's Reason?
In the introduction to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Marcus Weigelt, Weigelt writes, "Reason, although sometimes understood as the faculty that encompasses all thought (for instance when we ...
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What is meditation?
As philosophers, can we provide a compelling definition of “meditation” (as in, the mental practice, originating from certain Asian cultures and traditions).
I have personally begun to speculate about ...
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Is the evaluation of art's subjectivity wrong? and what is the goal behind our interpretations of art?
if art is subjective wouldn't that will make it a tatuology? Can The statemente"I like X more than Y, therefore X is better than Y be considered a tautological argument? because it equates repeat ...
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What is the idea of flux?
Merleau-Ponty suggests that something in a state of motion takes on a different structure to something at rest. Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice.
Physics today suggests that ...
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