Routledge philosophy guidebook to Husserl and the Cartesian meditations / A.D. Smith.

• Superior document: Routledge philosophy guidebooks
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Smith, A. D.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge philosophy guidebooks.
• Physical Description: xix, 271 p.

Table of Contents

1. First meditation -- The epoche and the transcendental reduction -- The constitution of objects -- Transcendental phenomenology and psychology -- Evidenz and intuition -- 'The Cartesian way' -- 2. Second meditation -- Intentionality -- The concept of horizon -- 'Sensualism' and the sense-datum theory -- Time-consciousness and Hyle -- Intentional analysis -- 3. (Most of the) fourth meditation -- Ego, person, monad -- Static and genetic phenomenology -- Active and passive synthesis -- Eidetic phenomenology and the nature of thought -- Founding -- Transcendental instincts and 'drive-intentionality' -- 4. Third meditation and part of the fourth -- Reality and reason -- World -- Reality as an 'idea' -- Reality and objectivity -- Husserl's idealism -- A Husserlian proof of idealism -- Theoretical science and the life-world -- Husserl's metaphysics -- 5. Fifth meditation -- The sphere of ownness -- The body -- Empathy -- Intersubjectivity -- Empathy : the wider picture -- The status and scope of Husserl's account of empathy.