1. Intro to Philosophy Nov. 9, 2004

2. Phenomenology Cartesian background Advantage: Looks at appearances as appearances of objects. Result: An investigation of human experience as it is had.

3. Central Concept: Intentionality Nothing to do with intending to act. About knowledge, not action Gives awareness ‘objects of awareness’ Examples: awareness of pain, itch and the apple over there. Mind is directed toward objects.

4. Response to the egocentric predicament Descriptions of the predicament: pages 9- 11. Mind and world are correlated; p. 12. Mind becomes public; acts in the open, is an agent of truth. Different kinds of intentionality Intentionality is highly differentiated. Appearances are real; they belong to being.

5. Appearances Things have ways of appearing In part, investigate this through investigating structures of intentionality

6. Structures of Intentionality Identity through manifold Part-whole Presence-absence

7. Perception of a cube “The presently visible sides are surrounded by a halo of potentially visible but actually absent sides”. Object permanence - we aren’t surprised by different views of objects. Blend: “What is given to me when I see a cube is a blend of sides that are present and sides that are absent but cointended.” My activity is also a mixture of parts. What parts?

8. Sides, etc. In addition to the sides there are Aspects - ways in which the side is given A profile: a temporally individuated presentation of an object. Thus two people who get the same aspect will get different profiles.

9. Synthesis of the Manifold Sides, aspect and profiles: in them all, one and the same cube is being presented. The cube is not the sum of these

10. First formal structure: Parts and Wholes: Pieces and moments Concreta and abstrata Mind is a moment See Soul, p. 26

11. Simple ideas: from Hume This division is into simple and complex. Simple perceptions, or impressions and ideas, are such as admit of no distinction nor separation. The complex are the contrary to these, and may be distinguished into parts. Though a particular colour, taste, and smell, are qualities all united together in this apple, it is easy to perceive they are not the same, but are at least distinguishable from each other.

12. Second formal structure Identity in manifolds Distinction between things and the manifold of its appearances The identity is not a member of the manifold P. 31: phenomenological analysis Self-identity and manifold: p. 32

13. Third formal structure Presences and absences: filled and empty intentions Phenomenological account: includes blends of presences and absences, p. 35. Identity not just in presence Two kinds of fulfillment: cumulative and additive

14. An initial definition Two attitudes: Natural Phenomenological

15. Natural Attitude 2 singularities The world The self The default condition is one of belief Egocentric predicament again: p. 46

16. Phenomenological attitude It is “all or nothing” Looks at and describes, analyticallly, all the particular intentionalities and the correslates, and world belief as well, with the world as its correlative. Bracketing - We bracket the world and all the things in the world Focus not just on subjective side and intentionalities. Also focus on objects as appearing to us in our natural attitude

17. Phenomenological Reduction Two ways: Ontological Cartesian Ontological: scientific, rigorous Cartesian: frightening, not genuine doubt, but attempt to doubt

18. Terms Doxic Apodictic Noema Noesis Phantasma (p. 61).