Tag: methods
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A Toolkit for the Life of the Mind
Julian Baggini and Peter S. Fosl. The Philosopher’s Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods. Second edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. [An installment of the “Read Me” Project.] My sister-in-law has bought me a number of outstanding books for Christmas over the years. This is one of them. I’m not technically a philosopher. I like philosophy,…
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On Phenomenology
Phenomenology seeks to explore that which is given to consciousness and in so doing to suspend judgements about subjective existence or non-existence of the objects of consciousness, or more specifically, to suspend judgement about the solutions to this problem posed in the history of philosophy.This suspension of judgement is the phenomenological reduction or “bracketing out”…