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.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Subjectivity and Phenomena

Of course Subjectivity, Constitution, etc are the TOPICS that characterize Transcendental Phenomenology. But the Method that reveals that area to us is transcendental reduction,the epistemic access is via phenomena, which guarantees high degree of evidence. This move of reflection and critique actually involves two moments: A thematical moment and a critical moment. The Theme is subjectivity, but it is not an empirical search in any obvious sense, but an essential analysis using the data that phenomenological reduction has supplied.

But actually, the two steps are never separated. Phenomena are not bare Phenomena, they already have meanings, and sometimes the structure really appears to be there, and this already presupposes that the mind has some kind of ability of general thinking, even if the method of Eidetic Variation does not start to work.But, an account of how do we know GENERALLY can have the form of PREPREDICATIVE EIDETIC VARIATION.After seeing many cases of the same thing, we conclude that it is an essence that.....Theory of TYPES?

However, an explicit account of the Eidetic Variation is still needed for an operative purpose and for its epistemological critique.

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