ANTH 383 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Edmund Husserl, Scientific Method, Bracketing
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Brings the physical body into philosophy, how the physical world really is embodied in senses outside of vision, being in the world". A philosophy of perception elaborated by the german philosopher edmund husserl at the turn of the century. It challenges cartesian, rationalist concepts of how the world is perceived, Husserl placed a focus on the subjective contents of consciousness, or our experience of being in the world". Concerned with subject-centered values, consciousness, and meaning, and insist that the methodologies of the natural sciences are inappropriate for the investigation of such issues. Assume that the world, the objective world, exists but only as filtered through (constituted by) an active and creative human subjective consciousness. Cartesian dualism treats the mind and body as separate, phenomenologists counter this wit the idea that consciousness is embodied. Inherent in this notion is husserl"s concept of the natural attitude", sets of common sense presuppositions about the way the world is.
