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PHIL4272

Phenomenology 現象學

Course Outline

|Time：Tuesdays, 9:30-11:15 | |Location: Humanities Building 6 | |

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Course overview

|This course will introduce you to one of the most important philosophical movements in contemporary philosophy. We will zero in on|

|the works of the founder of the phenomenological movement – Edmund Husserl. The course is split into two parts. In the first part,|

|we will investigate the lasting significance of Husserlian phenomenology by paying close attention to Husserl’s Ideas, the first |

|volume of which was published exactly one hundred years ago (1913). In the second part, we will explore the development of |

|Husserl’s phenomenology and address some of the central themes in Husserl’s last and unfinished work, The Crisis of European |

|Sciences. Discussion will focus on such fundamental phenomenological themes as intentionality and transcendental consciousness, |

|epoche and the reduction(s), constitution and the life-world. |

Learning outcomes

|1. Obtain familiarity with the central themes and concepts in Husserl’s phenomenology. |

|2. Learn how to understand and evaluate phenomenological claims, employed by Husserl and by a number of philosophers who have been|

|inspired by him. |

|3. Develop critical and exegetical skills by means of reading and interpreting Husserl’s works. |

|4. Obtain the basis to further explore the central phenomenological themes as addressed in the writings of post-Husserlian |

|philosophy....