About Me

I am a PhD student in Philosophy at Peking University, now staying at Universität zu Köln, Germany. My interests are primarily in Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology and Analytic Phenomenology. Now I am working on my Dissertation: Method, Intentionality, and Knowledge--An essay in analytic phenomenology. --------- I also have substantial interest in Early Modern Philosophy, Political Philosophy and Ethics.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Setback and REORIENTATION

I have been trying to write the Introduction to the part on Method, but I find this part totally unacceptable as the introduction. The reasons are:
1. It seems inappropriate for me now to begin the introduction with a discussion of Moore's and Strawson's conception of philosophy.Especially when it is 10 pages long.
2. It seems better if I concentrate on Husserl's conception of Philosophy, i.e., What counts as a philosophical problem? In order to ask the second question, WHAT IS THE METHOD TO SOLVE IT. Without a general conception of philosophy, it seems to me that it is hard to talk about a corresponding method. It is also worthwhile to mention in passing their conceptions of philosophy.
3. The question "What is Philosophy", seems to boil down to the question: "What is the difference between philosophical questions and other sorts of questions?
Generality? Universality?

REORIENTATION: The Dissertation begins with a discussion of Husserl's concept of Philosophy, or what counts as a philosophical problem and its answer. I will make use of Karl Schumann, as well as Mohanty's ideas.
Now the plan becomes something like this:
I. Method
0. Introduction: In Pursuit of Methods
0.1 Husserl’s Concept of Philosophy
0.2 Philosophical Method: Method as Critique and Method as Technique
1. Phenomenological Reduction, Reflection, and Constitutive Analysis
1.1 Method as Critique of Knowledge (LU)
1.2 Method as Critique of Subjectivity, and Constitutive Analysis (LU and Ideen I)
1.3 Phenomenological Residuum: Phenomena, Givenness, and Self-representation
2. Methodology Implicit in Logical Investigations
2.1 Husserl’s Theory of Part and Whole, Analysis and Synthesis (Bolzano, Brentano)
2.2 The Idea of Logical Grammar, Logico-grammatical Analysis (Wittgenstein, Ryle)
3. Eidetic Variation and Conceptual Analysis
3.1 Eidetic Variation, Free Imaginative Operation. Idea Variation (Bolzano)
3.2 A Linguistic Version of Eidetic Variation
3.3 Essential Intuition
4. Phenomenology as Philosophy of Mind, and its Method
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Phenomenological Method, The Concept of Mind, and Gilbert Ryle (The Connective Approach)
4.3 Phenomenological Method, Intentional Analysis, and John Searle

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