"Both in tone and content it is an eminently successful introduction to phenomenology. It offers rich and
illuminating insights both for the first-time reader and for the long-term scholar. This is the introduction to
phenomenology that many of us have been waiting for."
-- Richard Cobb-Stevens, Boston College
Submitted by Publishers, July, 2001
Summary
This book presents the major philosophical doctrines of phenomenology in a clear, lively style with an abundance
of examples. The book examines such phenomena as perception, pictures, imagination, memory, language, and reference,
and shows how human thinking arises from experience. It also studies personal identity as established through time
and discusses the nature of philosophy. In addition to providing a new interpretation of the correspondence theory
of truth, the author also explains how phenomenology differs from both modern and postmodern forms of thinking.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. What is intentionality and why is it important?
2. Perception of a cube as a paradigm of conscious experience
3. Three formal structures in phenomenology
4. An initial statement of what phenomenology is
5. Perception, memory, and imagination
6. Words, pictures, and symbols
7. Categorical intentions and objects
8. Phenomenology of the self
9. Temporality
10. The life-world and intersubjectivity
11. Reason, truth, and evidence
12. Eidetic intuition
13. Phenomenology defined
14. Phenomenology in the present historical context
Appendix: phenomenology in the last one hundred years
Select bibliography.
