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Husserl's Early Concept of Intentionality - AFSV00225
Title: Husserl's Early Concept of Intentionality
Guaranteed by: Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies (21-UFAR)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2017
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (30)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Hynek Janoušek, Ph.D.
Class: Exchange - 08.1 Philosophy
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Annotation
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
Last update: Janoušek Hynek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (20.09.2016)
Literature

Credits

1. Participation in the Lectures (three absences tolerated) and 2. written essay (4-6 Word pages, 12pt., 1,5 line spacing) concerning discussed topics at the end of the semester.

Last update: Mokrejšová Eva, Mgr. (15.09.2015)
 
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