Has anyone read or studied Husserl's phenomenology? I am starting on it, and it seems interesting, relevant to cognitive psychology and AI (e.g. Minsky's frames). The book I am using is Husserl, Phenomenology and Intention. Hard going, but if I squint right, I catch some strains of some interesting music.
--- AlistairCockburn
the Lifeworld, as opposed to
the ConstructedWorld of the sciences,
is the place where also the scientist spends his life and operates his instruments.
A later phenomenologist, AlfredSchutz,
called it the world taken for granted.
More recently, a similar idea
has emerged in AjGreima's NaturalWorld
which is natural in the sense of a natural language,
natural to us as the language into which we are born.
Contemporaryphenomenology
has developed as a philosophy of NewThinking a phenomenology of life that
can be applied in different ways toward
solving various problems of InterSubjectivity.
...
Celms calls Husserl's phenomenological idealism life philosophy.
The history of phenomenology shows that
the notion "life", "live", "life world" and others become important in contemporary phenomenology.
Husserl's stand in his latest works is still connected with
the way,
which links phenomenology with its
turning to concrete subjectivity and its life.
The pure life
is the basis for reduction in Husserls phenomenology, acknowledges Celms.
Life is grasped in phenomenological reflection.
In describing the model of Husserl,s reflexive consciousness Celms
stresses that
life does not consist of objects but of experiences
(besteht mein Leben nicht aus Objekten, sondern aus Erlebnissen).
We perceive experiences as an infinity of an immanent observation process.
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