Phenomenology question to Prof. Carman

• I want to ask the professor of PHIL1001 Introduction to Philosophy, who specializes in phenomenology, about various things (blu3mo).

  • I also want to get used to going to Office Hours (blu3mo).

• 20230405

  • Discussion on VR and time
  • Discussion on objections to the concept of Subjective Perception of Reality and Sense Data:
    • I’m really curious about it (blu3mo).
    • Tyler Burge
      • Argues that vision is not solely about incoming light?
      • Externalism
      • Perception: First Form of Mind

• 20230130

  • I wonder what the purpose of phenomenologists is (blu3mo).
    • Husserl, Heidegger, and others
    • Going beyond the methodology and world view of phenomenological reduction
  • I want to ask if what I’m doing is phenomenology
    • Implementing intersubjective virtual reality, not something totally objective
      • Not like having a shared metaverse, but more
    • What concepts could be related?
    • What does it mean to “apply phenomenology” to various things?
    • What does it mean to apply phenomenology

• Up to now it has been assumed that all our cognition must conform to the objects; but all attempts to find out something about them a priori through concepts that would extend our cognition have, on this pre-supposition, come to nothing. Hence let us once try whether we do not get farther with the problems of metaphysics by assuming that the ob-jects” must conform to our cognition, which would agree better with the requested possibility of an a priori cognition of them, which is to establish something about objects before they are given to us. - Kant, from Critique of Pure Reason Preface

  • What are the attempts to find out something about them a priori through concepts that would extend our cognition have?”
  • Before Kant:
    • Thought about how we perceive the objects in the world
    • Empiricists (a posteriori): Start with a blank slate (tabula rasa) and gradually recognize and understand the objects
    • Rationalists (a priori): Already possess knowledge of various concepts of objects from the beginning
  • In contrast, Kant: When we receive the objects of the world through intuition, we perceive them by fitting them into the framework of innate concepts that humans possess
    • This is called the Copernican Revolution
    • Counterargument to empiricism: Without the minimal innate framework of time, space, etc. (= understanding), wouldn’t we be unable to perceive or learn anything?

• What is the difference between intuitions and sense data?