| PHIL
180
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Phenomenology Fall 2012 |
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| Professor:
Clinton
Tolley office: HSS 8018 hours: tbd email: ctolley [at] ucsd.edu |
Teaching Assistant:
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be
determined} office: --- hours: --- |
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| Time:
Tuesday
/
Thursday,
11:00am-12:20pm Location: Warren Lecture Hall [WLH] 2113 [map] *note change in room* |
| {available at UCSD
Bookstore (Price Center), except * = TED} *Brentano, Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (Routledge, 1995) Husserl, Ideas pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology (Routledge, 2012) *Heidegger, History of the Concept of Time (Indiana, 1985) Heidegger, Being and Time, trs. Macquarrie and Robinson (Harper, 2008) Merleau-Ponty, The World of Perception, tr. Baldwin (Routledge, 2008) |
| Dermot Moran, Introduction to
Phenomenology
(Routledge, 2000) [google] |
| Phenomenology
emerges out
of the context of 19th century German philosophy, as
philosophers were
attempting to come to grips with Kant's proposal that
all of our
knowledge is limited to appearances or 'phenomena',
rather than to
something whose reality is more mind-independent.
While many took
this to force us into a kind of skepticism about genuine
knowledge,
some of those working in philosophical psychology
instead took
something along the lines of Kant's science of phenomena
to provide not
just an ultimate antidote to skepticism but also the
absolutely
necessary place to begin all other philosophical and
scientific
investigation. In this course, we will investigate phenomenology by tracing out some of the early highpoints its historical development, focusing on texts by authors like Franz BRENTANO (1838–1917), Edmund HUSSERL (1859–1938), and Martin HEIDEGGER (1889–1976), and Maurice MERLEAU-PONTY (1908–61). Our goal will be to achieve a critical understanding of the method, findings, problems, and prospects of phenomenology, by working through some of the major texts of its key proponents. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Note: May be repeated for credit with change in content and approval of the instructor. |
| {tentative} * mid-term take-home exam (1500 words) * final paper (2500 words) * attendance and participation |
| {tentative} Brentano (wks 1-2) Husserl (wks 3-5) Heidegger (wks 6-8) Merleau-Ponty (wks 9-10) |
| Routledge
Encyclopedia
of Philosophy
entries (requires sign-in) Overview
of
the
phenomenological
movement
Franz Brentano Edmund Husserl Martin Heidegger Maurice Merleau-Ponty Overview of existentialism Stanford
Encyclopedia
of Philosophy
entries
Overview of phenomenology Franz Brentano Edmund Husserl Maurice Merleau-Ponty Overview of existentialism |