Meaning, Experience and Science: The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl

How do we constitute the world for ourselves? What is the structure of the self? How do we come to know about the minds of others? These are some of the key questions that occupied Edmund Husserl. By way of an answer, Husserl constructed the theory of Phenomenology, which seeks to explain how we can come to conceptualise an external world that is alien to our own minds. The questions he explored would pave the way for the existentialist philosophers such as Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre, and would reveal a crisis at the heart of modern scientific understanding. This course will explore Husserl’s thought through selected readings of three key texts: Ideas, Cartesian Meditations and Crisis of the European Sciences.

Tutor: Ed Willems PhD

Term: Autumn

Day: Saturday

Time: 10am-1pm

Start Date: 9 December 2023

No. of weeks: 1

Full fee: £28

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