Husserl

T or F 1. Phenomenology rejected constructivism because it failed to distinguish between belief and knowledge.

T or F 2. Phenomenology accepted constructivism because it failed to distinguish between belief and knowledge.

T or F 3. Phenomenology maintains that things in themselves appear to consciousness.

T or F 4. Phenomenology maintains that things for consciousness are not constructed by consciousness.

T or F 5. Consciousness consists of ideas or representations.

T or F 6. Consciousness is not a state.

T or F 7. Consciousness is intentional

T or F 8. Consciousness is intentional

T or F 9. Consciousness is intentional means that consciousness has a direction.

T or F 10. Consciousness is intentional means that consciousness is a state.

T or F 11. Since consciousness is intentional this means it does not construct its object.

T or F 12. Since consciousness is intentional this means it constructs its object.

T or F 13. Positivists maintained that sentences about inner states could be eliminated and replaced by sentences about bodily states.

T or F 14. Phenomenologists maintained that sentences about inner states could be eliminated and replaced by sentences about bodily states.

T or F 15. Phenomenological reduction allow us to become directly aware of an immense variety of entities and acts.

T or F 16. Phenomenological reduction does not allow us to become directly aware of an immense variety of entities and acts.

T or F 17. Analytic philosophers favored Hegel while Phenomenologists thought of Hume.

T or F 18. Analytic philosophers favored Hume while Phenomenologists favored Hegel.

T or F 19.Analytic philosophers regarded intentionality as a reason for concentrating on consciousness.

T or F 20. Analytic philosophers regarded intentionality as a reason for ignoring consciousness.

T or F 21. Phenomenologists regarded intentionality as a reason for concentrating on consciousness.

T or F 22. Phenomenologists regarded intentionality as a reason for ignoring consciousness

T or F 23. Phenomenologists maintained complexes could be analyzed into simples.

T or F 24. Analytic philosophers maintained that complexes could be analyzed into simples

T or F 25. Phenomenologists maintained that things are by nature interconnected. 274

T or F 26. Analytic philosophers maintained that things are by nature interconnected.

T or F 27. Analytic philosophers maintain that there is a barrier between our minds and things and this barrier is sloppy language.

T or F 28. Phenomenologists philosophers maintain that there is a barrier between our minds and things and this barrier is sloppy language.

T or F 29. Analytic philosophers maintain that there is a barrier between our minds and things and this barrier is sloppy language but the barrier can be overcome when ordinary language is replaced by an ideal language.

T or F 30. Phenomenologists maintain that there is a barrier between our minds and things and this barrier is sloppy language but the barrier can be overcome when ordinary language is replaced by an ideal language.

T or F 31. Phenomenologists maintain that there is a barrier between our minds and things but this barrier consisted less in sloppy language than in the atomistic preconceptions that dominated the thought of analytic philosophers.

T or F 32. The animating force in Husserl's life was the quest for certainty.

T or F 33. The animating force in Husserl's life was the quest for certainty.

T or F 34. Clarity occurs when something becomes completely clear to us and when it is possible to doubt it.

T or F 35. Clarity occurs when something becomes completely clear to us Although it is still possible to doubt it.

T or F 36. Clarity is related to being "self given"

T or F 37. Clarity is related to clear sense data.

T or F 38. Clarity is related to clear and distinct ideas.

T or F 39. Husserl's passion for clarity led him from mathematics to logic to philosophy to Phenomenology.

T or F 40. Husserl's passion for clarity led him from Philosophy to mathematics to logic to Phenomenology.

T or F 41. Phenomenology is a special kind of seeing.

T or F 42. Phenomenology is a special kind of feeling.

T or F 43. Phenomenology is a special kind of acting.

T or F 44. In Cartesian Meditations Husserl likened his position to Descartes.

T or F 45. In Cartesian Meditations Husserl likened his position to Analytic philosophers.

T or F 46. Correct interpretation of the transcendental ego is a crucial stage in the quest for certainty.

T or F 47. Correct interpretation of the human body is a crucial stage in the quest for certainty.

T or F 48. Historicism rejects any belief whatever in an absolute Philosophy.278

T or F 49. Historicism accepts the belief in an absolute Philosophy.

T or F 50. Historicism offers the relative justification of every Philosophy within its own time.

T or F 51. Historicism rejects the relative justification of every Philosophy within its own time.

T or F 52. Historicists maintain that truth is relative to social or cultural context.

T or F 53. Historicists reject the idea that truth is relative to social or cultural context.

T or F 54. Historical evidence cannot establish that any particular theory is false. 279x

T or F 55. Historical evidence can establish that any particular theory is false.

The Crisis of European Man

T or F 56. Relativism is not self contradictory.

T or F 57. Relativism is self contradictory.

T or F 58. The gradual decay of belief in positivism was responsible for the crisis.

T or F 59. The gradual decay of belief in rational certainty was responsible for the crisis.

T or F 60.The gradual decay of belief in science was responsible for the crisis.

61. What is "THAUMAZEIN"?

T or F 62. The Greek attitude was "mythico-religious".

T or F 63. The Greek attitude was theoretical.

T or F 64. The Greek attitude was practical.

T or F 65. The methods of nature science were responsible for the crisis of European man.

T or F 66. The methods of the social sciences were responsible for the crisis of European man.

T or F 67. The only hope for Europe was a revival of the disinterested attitude and a return to rationality

T or F 68. The only hope for Europe was a revival of the disinterested attitude and a return to positivism.

T or F 69.The root of the crisis lie in the ideal of a disinterested naturalism.281x

T or F 70. The root of the crisis lie in the ideal of a disinterested positivism.

T or F 71. Naturalism is the view that the successes of natural knowledge can be extended to knowledge of the spirit.

T or F 72. Phenomenology is the view that the successes of natural knowledge can be extended to knowledge of the spirit.

T or F 73. Cartesianism is the view that the successes of natural knowledge can be extended to knowledge of the spirit.

T or F 74. To extend the methods of natural science to psychic life is to "objectivize" life.

T or F 75. To extend the methods of natural science to psychic life is to "subjectivize" life.

T or F 76. To extend the methods of natural science to psychic life is to "positivize" life.

T or F 77. Psychic processes are material objects.

T or F 78. Psychic processes are metaphysical objects.

T or F 79. T or F 77. Psychic processes are not material objects.

T or F 80. The natural sciences are uncritical 283

T or F 81. The natural sciences are not uncritical

T or F 82. The natural sciences all assume a form of dualism.

T or F 83. The natural sciences all assume a form of monism.

T or F 84. The natural sciences all assume a form of pluralism.

T or F 85. Psychology is misguided because bodies are treated like minds.

T or F 86. Psychology is misguided because minds are treated like bodies.

T or F 87. The findings of the new method of Phenomenology will not provide a foundation for a reconstruction of all the sciences.

T or F 88. The findings of the new method of Phenomenology will provide a foundation for a reconstruction of all the sciences.

T or F 89. Scientists see themselves as a group of people belonging to their own environing world and historical period.

T or F 90. Scientists do not see themselves as a group of people belonging to their own environing world and historical period.

T or F 91. Subjectivism prevents psychology from making a proper study of the ego that acts and that is acted upon.

T or F 92. Objectivism prevents psychology from making a proper study of the ego that acts and that is acted upon.

Criticism of Psychology 285

The Phenomenological Method 286

T or F 93. The Phenomenological stance is contrasted with "the natural standpoint".

T or F 94. The Phenomenological stance is contrasted with "the objective standpoint".

T or F 95. The Phenomenological stance is contrasted with "the unnatural standpoint".

T or F 96. Only after a great deal of questioning do we accept the world as a whole.

T or F 97. We unquestioningly accept the world as a whole.

T or F 98. Particular segments of experience are not questioned unless they conflict with other segments of experience.

T or F 99. Husserl does not set out to doubt the world as a whole.

T or F 100. Husserl sets out to doubt the world as a whole.

What is "Bracketing"?