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Edmund Husserl was a German philosopher who founded phenomenology, launching the movement with Logical Investigations, published in 1900-1901.
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What is Edmund Husserl's phenomenology about?
Husserl's phenomenology studies structures of experience as they appear to consciousness. His Logical Investigations, published in 1900 and 1901, helped launch phenomenology as a major philosophical movement.
What does Husserl mean by intentionality?
Intentionality means that consciousness is always consciousness of something. Husserl used the idea to analyze perception, judgment, memory, and meaning.
How did Husserl influence Heidegger?
Martin Heidegger studied with Husserl and dedicated Being and Time to him in 1927. Heidegger transformed phenomenology toward questions of being, world, and human existence.
What is the phenomenological reduction in Husserl?
The reduction is Husserl's method of bracketing ordinary assumptions about the external world to examine experience itself. It does not simply deny the world; it shifts attention to how the world is given in consciousness.
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