Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger

Demonstrates how phenomenology constructively addresses problems in philosophy of mind, moral psychology and philosophy of action.

Steven Crowell (Author)

9781107682559, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 25 April 2013

334 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.57 kg

'… this series of essays present[s] a fascinating interpretation of key themes in Husserl and Heidegger … of interest to anyone working through the areas of subjectivity, normativity, and the philosophy of action.' Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy

Steven Crowell has been for many years a leading voice in debates on twentieth-century European philosophy. This volume presents thirteen recent essays that together provide a systematic account of the relation between meaningful experience (intentionality) and responsiveness to norms. They argue for a new understanding of the philosophical importance of phenomenology, taking the work of Husserl and Heidegger as exemplary, and introducing a conception of phenomenology broad enough to encompass the practices of both philosophers. Crowell discusses Husserl's analyses of first-person authority, the semantics of conscious experience, the structure of perceptual content, and the embodied subject, and shows how Heidegger's interpretation of the self addresses problems in Husserl's approach to the normative structure of meaning. His volume will be valuable for upper-level students and scholars interested in phenomenological approaches to philosophical questions in both the European and the analytic traditions.

Introduction
Part I. Transcendental Philosophy, Phenomenology, and Normativity: 1. Making meaning thematic
2. Husserlian phenomenology
3. The matter and method of philosophy
Part II. Husserl on Consciousness and Intentionality: 4. The first-person character of philosophical knowledge
5. Phenomenological immanence, normativity, and semantic externalism
6. The normative in perception
7. Husserl's subjectivism and the philosophy of mind
Part III. Heidegger, Care, and Reason: 8. Subjectivity: locating the first-person in being and time
9. Conscience and reason
10. Being answerable: reason-giving and the ontological meaning of discourse
Part IV. Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy: 11. The existential sources of normativity
12. Husserl and Heidegger on the intentionality of action
13. Heidegger on practical reasoning, agency, and morality.

Subject Areas: Phenomenology & Existentialism [HPCF3], Western philosophy, from c 1900 - [HPCF], Philosophy [HP]