The Significance of Phenomenology Today

Tomas Fuchs (University of Heidelberg)

The Significance of Phenomenology 

Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis  Institute for Logic, Language and Computation    

Wednesday 21 May, 16.00-18.00 

Location: Universiteitstheater, 3.01 Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16-18
http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/de-uva-in-amsterdam/locaties/content/binnenstad/universiteitstheater.html    

Thomas Fuchs (Heidelberg)
The Significance of Phenomenology Today  

Abstract:

Phenomenology may be considered the systematic science of subjective experience and its basic structures of intentionality, embodiment, temporal­ity and intersubjectivity. Thus it is assigned the crucial task of defending subjective experience against reductionist claims which are raised in par­ticular from proponents of naturalism or physicalism. Nonetheless phe­nomenology is far more than a mere science of consciousness which it maintains as an impregnable, but sterile citadel. On the contrary, as a sci­ence of embodied and extended subjectivity it spreads on the fields of em­pirical sciences and enters with them into a productive dialogue. Thus, phenomenology has played a significant role in initiating a new paradigm in cognitive science that considers the cognitive system to include not just the brain, but the body as a whole, situated in physical and social environments. Other interdisciplinary advances of phenomenology that will be de­scribed in the lecture include its role for social cognition research and for psychopathology.

All welcome