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Husserl's Early Concept of Intentionality
The goal of the course is to present the concept of intentionality as it entered the modern „continental“ philosophical thinking through the work of Edmund Husserl. I will discuss the way in which it was understood by
Husserl's teacher Franz Brentano and its transformation in the early work of Edmund Husserl. My discussion will take into account the problem areas in which this transformation took place (such as sensory perception of space and phenomenal sensory objects, consciousness of time, theory of signs, theory of presentations and judgments etc.) and theories of thinkers which influenced Husserl thought on the topic (Bolzano, Herbart, Twardowski, William
James, Erdmann, Lotze). Even though the area covered by the topics mainly concerns the birth of Phenomenology the course can serve as an introduction to the classical Phenomenology as well.
The lectures will be supplemented by active reading of Husserl's early texts (in English translation).
Syllabus 1. Brentano on Intentionality 2. Husserl on Intentionality 3-5. Intuition and Presentation, the Birth of “Intention” and consciousness of Sings, Sensory and Imagined Objects 6. Twardowski, Bolzano and Anti-Psychologistic Revolution 7. What kind of Object is a non-existing Object, Husserl's Theory of Suppositions and “other worlds” 8. Are there General Concepts? 9-12. Husserl's Early Understanding of Perception, Imagination, Attention and Time Consciousness