Phenomenology

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Examination of historical and conceptual development of phenomenology in the 20 th century, starting with Husserl’s “presuppositionless and purely descriptive science of the structures of consciousness,” including works by Sartre, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. Emphasis on (a) the idea of a presuppositionless account of consciousness; (b) the motivations for and nature of the “existential turn;” and (c) connections between phenomenology and both analytic philosophy and scientific psychology. Prerequisite(s): junior or senior standing, or permission of instructor.