CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Trofimova, Maria |
|---|---|
| Title | EDMUND HUSSERL'S ANTI- PSYCHOLOGICAL, TRANSCENDENTAL, AND OMNITEMPORAL THEORY OF MEANING: A COMPARATIVE STUDY |
| Summary | In this thesis I discuss Edmund Husserl's theory of meaning as it appears at three different stages of his work. In Logical Investigations Husserl seeks to divorce logic and meaning from its psychological interpretations and to establish a firm argument for the ideality of meaning. He achieves his goal, but the outcome provoked many further questions about the understanding of ideality and the actual process of meaning-constitution. In Ideas Husserl provides a comprehensive account of meaning as ideal noema given in conscious experience. He also clarifies the relation between ideality and reality by means of introducing a new phenomenological method of philosophizing. His advanced theory of meaning receives even more detailed elaboration in his last major work Experience and Judgment, where he demonstrates that the origins of every meaning are deeply rooted in our prepredicative experience. Relying on his theory of time-consciousness he also shows that meaning is omni-temporal, i.e. constituted within time-consciousness but existing over and above any act of constitution. The purpose of my inquiry is, first, to clarify the development of Husserl’s concept of meaning with regards to his changing views on the status of the science which has conceptual meaning as its object, i.e. logic (and phenomenology to a certain extent). The second aim is to demonstrate that his analyses of meaning are the crucial pivot of his epistemology throughout his works with a particular concentration on the three stages, namely, i) the justification of pure logic as a first a priori science and the refutation of psychologist (LU), ii)the shift to transcendental phenomenology (Ideen), in which logic plays only a preliminary role, and iii) the turn to transcendental aesthetics (EU) with an attempt to find a proper background for logic. The actual analysis does not aim to provide a complete account of Husserl’s thought at any of the stages, but to trace the development of a comprehensive theory of meaning underlying the problems which led Husserl to each subsequent stage and demonstrating whether and to what extent he provided a satisfactory answer to them. |
| Supervisor | Markus George, Weberman David |
| Department | Philosophy PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/fphtrm01.pdf |
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