The Phenomenology of the Noema

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-v

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2. Introduction

   • John J. Drummond, Lester Embree

   Pages 1-7

3. On the Object of Thought: Methodological and Phenomenological Reflections

   • Aron Gurwitsch

   Pages 9-27

4. Finding the Noema

   • Dallas Willard

   Pages 29-47

5. Noema and Essence

   • J. N. Mohanty

   Pages 49-55

6. Meaning and Noema

   • J. Claude Evans

   Pages 57-69

7. Noetic Insight and Noematic Recalcitrance

   • Lenore Langsdorf

   Pages 71-87

8. An Abstract Consideration: De-Ontologizing the Noema

   • John J. Drummond

   Pages 89-109

9. Being’s Mindfulness: The Noema of Transcendental Idealism

   • James G. Hart

   Pages 111-135

10. What Does Noematic Intentionality Tell Us About the Ontological Status of the Noema?

    • Eduard Marbach

    Pages 137-155

11. Some Noetico-Noematic Analyses of Action and Practical Life

    • Lester Embree

    Pages 157-210

12. The Noema Revisited: Hard Cases

    • Richard Holmes

    Pages 211-226

13. A Bibliography of the Noema

    • Mano Daniel

    Pages 227-248

14. Back Matter

    Pages 249-255

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Philosophers contributing new ideas are commonly caught within a received philosophical vocabulary and will often coin new, technical terms. Husserl understood himself as advancing a new theory of intentionality, and he fashioned the new vocabulary of `noesis' and `noema'. But Husserl's own statements regarding the noema are ambiguous. Hence, it is no surprise that controversy has ensued. The articles in this book elucidate and clarify the notion of the noema; the book includes articles which phenomenologically describe and analyze the noemata of various experiences as well as articles which undertake the `metaphenomenological' explication of the doctrine of the noema. These two enterprises cannot be isolated from one another. Any analysis of the noema of a particular type of experience will necessarily illustrate, at least by instantiating the general notion of noema. And any metaphenomenological account of the noema itself will guide particular researches into the noemata of particular experiences.

• Edmund Husserl
• experience
• object
• phenomenology

• Mount Saint Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, USA

  John J. Drummond

• Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA

  Lester Embree

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