Habits of Phantasy and the Possibility of A Priori Knowledge

In this article, I analyze the working principle and associated concepts of the method of eidetic variation as illustrated by Husserl in Experience and Judgment. In so doing, I scrutinize the very specific sense in which, for Husserl, variation must be free in order to have intuition of a universal as pure, that is, as having a priori validity. I then discuss Husserl’s problematic claim that, even if totally free, the eidetic variation is actually not sufficient to achieve purity. The reason for its insufficiency, I argue, must be sought in the habits of phantasy. To this aim, I first undertake a phenomenological analysis of the essence of these habits as passive tendencies of the phantasizing ego. Then, I show that they hinder the intuition of the universal as pure by contaminating the purity of the free possibilities to be varied. Finally, I discuss whether habits of phantasy can be put out of play and whether, depending on the realizability of such a task, the whole method of eidetic variation, and, in relation to it, the possibility of a priori knowledge
advocated by Husserl is to be put into question.

• | Kapitel kaufen CoverU1
• | Kapitel kaufen Inhaltsverzeichnis3
• | Kapitel kaufen Andrea Cimino: Husserl on Illusory Things – Prolegomena to any Noematic, Onto-Phenomenological Clarification of Sensory Illusion5
• | Kapitel kaufen Abstract5
• | Kapitel kaufen Introduction5
• | Kapitel kaufen An Eidetic, Noematically Oriented, Onto-Phenomenological Clarification8
• | Kapitel kaufen Formal and Material Ontology (1): Sensory Illusions of Individua and their Variants17
• | Kapitel kaufen Formal and Material Ontology (2): Sensory Illusions of Things20
• | Kapitel kaufen Illusory Things (1): The Principle of Coordination and the A Priori Laws of Mutability and Reversibility26
• | Kapitel kaufen Illusory Things (2): The Psycho-Physical Condition of the Lived-Body, Subjective and Inter-Subjective Levels of Normality and Abnormality, ˋFalse' Appearances30
• | Kapitel kaufen Illusory Things (3): Typification of the Causal-Material Relations of Things with their Surroundings, the Distinction Between Deceptive and Resilient/Incorrigible Illusions36
• | Kapitel kaufen Conclusion38
• | Kapitel kaufen Till Grohmann: Lotze, Bolzano, Husserl: Über Begriffe, Abstraktion und Wesen41
• | Kapitel kaufen Abstract41
• | Kapitel kaufen 1. Begriffe und Abstraktion in Lotzes Logik43
• | Kapitel kaufen 2. Begriffe und Abstraktion in Bolzanos Wissenschaftslehre49
• | Kapitel kaufen 3. Bedeutung und Abstraktion bei Husserl56
• | Kapitel kaufen Schluss64
• | Kapitel kaufen Stefan W. Schmidt: Der gestaltete Ort – Entwurf einer phänomenologischen Topologie des Designs67
• | Kapitel kaufen Abstract 67
• | Kapitel kaufen Einleitung67
• | Kapitel kaufen 1. Phänomenologische Topologie69
• | Kapitel kaufen 1.1 Topologie der Leiblichkeit71
• | Kapitel kaufen 1.2 Topologie der Dinge73
• | Kapitel kaufen 2. Design als topologische Gestaltung79
• | Kapitel kaufen Nicola Spano: Habits of Phantasy and the Possibility of A Priori Knowledge 87
• | Kapitel kaufen Abstract87
• | Kapitel kaufen 1. Pure Essences and Eidetic Variation90
• | Kapitel kaufen 2. Arbitrariness, Freedom and Disconnectedness94
• | Kapitel kaufen 3. The Insufficiency of Totally Free Variation96
• | Kapitel kaufen 4. Motivation, Habits, and Associations99
• | Kapitel kaufen 5. The Habits of Phantasy and the Eidetic Variation101
• | Kapitel kaufen 6. Concluding Remarks: Habits of Phantasy and A Priori Knowledge104
• | Kapitel kaufen Hannes Wendler: Methodological Reductionism in Realistic Phenomenology. – The Completion of the Reduction in Philosophical Anthropology: Reconciling Scientific, Phenomenological/Apollonian, Dionysian and Cathartic Reduction109
• | Kapitel kaufen Abstract109
• | Kapitel kaufen On the Reduction in Realistic Phenomenology110
• | Kapitel kaufen Phenomenological Reductionism and Epochism: Methodological Considerations of the Reduction115
• | Kapitel kaufen The Realistic Critique: Suspending the Moment of Reality without a Theory of Reality122
• | Kapitel kaufen Technological Reductionism in Philosophical Anthropology: Scientific, Phenomenological/Apollonian, Dionysian and Cathartic Reduction126
• | Kapitel kaufen Man amidst White Nights145
• | Kapitel kaufen Buchbesprechungen147
• | Kapitel kaufen Autorinnen und Autoren169