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Phenomenology for Consciousness Studies
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Course 1 · Module 2

Husserl: Intentionality and Method

Learn Edmund Husserl's phenomenological method: his critique of psychologism, the epoché and reduction, eidetic variation, and the noesis–noema structure of intentional acts. You'll practice suspending everyday assumptions about the world so you can describe how things are given in experience, and you'll analyze your own perceptual acts in Husserl's terms. These are the core tools of phenomenology and the reference point for every first-person method used in consciousness research today.

Module objectives

  • Explain Husserl's critique of psychologism and his aim of describing experience as it is given
  • Describe the epoché, the phenomenological reduction, and eidetic variation as methods for suspending the natural attitude
  • Analyze an intentional act in terms of its noetic and noematic structure

3 lessons · 28 items · 3h 39m

Lessons

  1. Lesson 1 Husserl's Method: Against Psychologism This lesson covers Husserl's argument that logic can't be reduced to the psychology of thinking, and his call to go back "to the things themselves." You'll be able to reconstruct… 61111h 3m
  2. Lesson 2 Husserl's Method: Epoché, Reduction, and Variation This lesson explains Husserl's natural attitude and the three methods he developed to study experience without presupposing the world's existence or the findings of science: the… 61111h 3m
  3. Lesson 3 Husserl's Method: Noesis and Noema This lesson presents Husserl's analysis of the intentional act into noesis, the act of meaning, and noema, the object as meant. You'll be able to analyze a perception, a memory… 611111h 33m

Further reading

These are the primary texts behind the ideas in this module. Reading them is optional: explore the ones that match your interests. You don't need them to complete the module, which explains their key ideas. Each entry gives the recommended edition, free options where they exist, and where to buy or borrow it.