Phenomenology and linguistic philosophy are based on different methodological approaches and are therefore often regarded as incompatible: while one analyses consciousness, the other focuses on language. Eric Ebner demonstrates that both approaches can be productively combined when it comes to analysing the contents of perception. The phenomenological strength in the analysis of perception is thereby linked to a methodologically primary orientation towards language. The central thesis of this bo…
Read morePhenomenology and linguistic philosophy are based on different methodological approaches and are therefore often regarded as incompatible: while one analyses consciousness, the other focuses on language. Eric Ebner demonstrates that both approaches can be productively combined when it comes to analysing the contents of perception. The phenomenological strength in the analysis of perception is thereby linked to a methodologically primary orientation towards language. The central thesis of this book maintains that the contents of perception can be reconstructed as material inferences by combining Robert B. Brandom’s inferentialist philosophy with the phenomenological approaches of Edmund Husserl and Aron Gurwitsch. This not only establishes a connection between two philosophical traditions, but also systematically expands the concept of material inference and develops an alternative to an object-oriented interpretation of the concept of the horizon in Husserl. The thesis is developed in a problem-oriented manner from the approaches of Brandom and Husserl and discussed in the context of phenomenological debates.
