On Fore- and Background in Cognitive PhenomenologyAnders Nes (University of Oslo)
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Yet Another Workshop on Phenomenal Intentionality
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Can we distinguish anything like fore- vs. background structures in
cognitive phenomenology? I think we can, and here try to articulate
some such structures. I consider the phenomenologies of speech
comprehension and reasoning. In each domain, I propose, we have an
experience of something, X, as meaning something, Y. In some such
cases, our experience of X as meaning Y is an experience of X as
meaning Y in a manner that is capable of further elucidation, where
certain further, more or less specific and informative ways in which X
is means Y are more or less dimly anticipated. (The suggested
structure in consciousness here is akin to Husserl’s ideas about a
‘horizonal’ dimension of intentionality.) In other such cases, our
experience of X as meaning Y is rather one of X as ‘just’, ‘simply’ or
‘primitively’, meaning Y. I suggest this distinction has relevance to
the question how non-demonstrative inferences, whose plausibility are sensitive to vast stocks of background knowledge, may be justified for us, from within the perspective of phenomenal consciousness.
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