Intersubjectivity and Objectivity in Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl: A Collection of Essays

Published by De Gruyter 2012

Intersubjectivity and Objectivity in Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl

A Collection of Essays

Edited by: Christel Fricke and Dagfinn Føllesdal

Volume 8 in the series Philosophische Forschung / Philosophical Research

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110325942

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Can we have objective knowledge of the world? Can we understand what is morally right or wrong? Yes, to some extent. This is the answer given by Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl. Both rejected David Hume’s skeptical account of what we can hope to understand. But they held his empirical method in high regard, inquiring into the way we perceive and emotionally experience the world, into the nature and function of human empathy and sympathy and the role of the imagination in processes of intersubjective understanding. The challenge is to overcome the natural constraints of perceptual and emotional experience and reach an agreement that is informed by the facts in the world and the nature of morality. This collection of philosophical essays addresses an audience of Smith- and Husserl scholars as well as everybody interested in theories of objective knowledge and proper morality which are informed by the way we perceive and think and communicate.

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Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
1. A Phenomenological Approach to Intersubjectivity in the Sciences Frode Kjosavik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. Husserl’s Approaches to Volitional Consciousness Henning Peucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3. “We-Subjectivity”: Husserl on Community and Communal Constitution Ronald McIntyre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
4. Husserl on Understanding Persons Christian Beyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
5. Imagination and Appresentation, Sympathy and Empathy in Smith and Husserl John J. Drummond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
6. Mengzi (Mencius), Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl on Sympathy and Conscience Iso Kern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
7. Overcoming Disagreement – Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl on Strategies of Justifying Descriptive and Evaluative Judgments Christel Fricke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
8. Intersubjectivity and Moral Judgment in Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments Vivienne Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
9. Sympathy in Hume and Smith: A Contrast, Critique, and Reconstruction Sam Fleischacker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Main content: 315
Keywords: Erkenntnistheorie; Philosophie; Phänomenologie

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Published: May 2, 2013
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Published: November 1, 2012
ISBN: 9783110325188