Husserl, Perception, and Temporal Awareness

by Izchak Miller

The interest of modern philosophers in the nature of perception has been motivated by this question: Does our perceptual experience provide rational justification of our empirical beliefs? The same question motivated Husserl's study of perception, and he answered it in the affirmative. This book clarifies Husserl's notion of perceptual experience as "immediate" or "direct" with respect to its purported object, and outlines his theory of evidence. In particular, it focuses on Husserl's account of our perceptual experience of time, an aspect of perception rarely noted in', recent philosophical literature, yet which must be taken into consideration if an adequate account of perception is to be provided. Perhaps equally important, there is a new wave of work in phenomenology (and intentionality), reflecting a synthesis of phenomenological and analytic philosophy, Miller's book is an important contribution to that "new wave," and has a significant bearing on contemporary issues in cognitive science. A Bradford Book.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262131897
• ISBN13: 9780262131896
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.