The Possibility of Transcendental Philosophy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxii

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2. Group I

   1. Husserl, Frege and the Overcoming of Psychologism

      • J. N. Mohanty

      Pages 1-11

   2. Intentionality and Noema

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      Pages 13-24

   3. Intentionality and “Possible Worlds”

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      Pages 25-44

   4. Husserlian Phenomenology and the De Re and De Dicto Intentionalities

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      Pages 45-56

   5. Rorty, Phenomenology and Transcendental Philosophy

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      Pages 57-66

   6. Intentionality, Causality and Holism

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      Pages 67-82

3. Group II

   1. Towards a Phenomenology of Self-Evidence

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      Pages 83-100

   2. “Life-World” and “A Priori” in Husserl’s Later Thought

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      Pages 101-119

   3. Intentionality and the Mind/Body Problem

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      Pages 121-138

   4. Consciousness and Life-World

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      Pages 139-154

   5. Consciousness and Existence: Remarks on the Relation between Husserl and Heidegger

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      Pages 155-165

   6. On the Roots of Reference: Quine, Piaget, and Husserl

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      Pages 167-190

4. Group III

   1. Husserl’s Transcendental Phenomenology and Essentialism

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      Pages 191-212

   2. The Destiny of Transcendental Philosophy

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      Pages 213-222

   3. Transcendental Philosophy and the Hermeneutic Critique of Consciousness

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      Pages 223-246

5. Back Matter

   Pages 247-249

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These essays span a period of fourteen years. The earliest was written in 1960, the latest in 1983. They all represent various attempts to understand the motives and the central concepts of Husserl's transcen­ dental phenomenology, and to locate the latter in the background of other varieties of transcendental philosophy. Implicitly, they also con­ tain a defense of transcendental philosophy, and make attempts to respond to the more familiar criticisms against it. It is hoped that they will contribute to a better understanding not only of Husserl's transcen­ dental phenomenology but also of transcendental philosophy in gener­ al. The ordering of the essays is not chronological. They are rather divided thematically into three groups. The first group of six essays is concerned with relating Husserlian phenomenology to more contem­ porary analytic concerns: in fact, the opening essay on Husserl and Frege establishes a certain continuity of concern with my last published book with that title. Of these, Essay 2 was written for an American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division symposium in which the other symposiast was John Searle. The discussion in that symposium concentrated chiefly on the relation between intentionality and causali­ ty - which led me to write Essay 6, later read as the Gurwitsch Memo­ rial Lecture at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philos­ ophy meetings in 1982 at Penn State.

• Edmund Husserl
• Martin Heidegger
• body
• phenomenology
• transcendental philosophy

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