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On successful completion of the module, students should be able to:
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discriminate between various phenomenological methods deployed in twentieth-century phenomenology: descriptive psychology (Brentano); descriptive [hermeneutic] psychology (Dilthey); descriptive-eidetic psychology (Husserl); existential-hermeneutic phenomenology (Heidegger); dialogic ethical-transcendental phenomenology (Levinas).
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account for the development of Husserl’s thought, with particular focus on central tenets and concepts of his phenomenology (e.g., the intentionality of consciousness, eidetic ideation, the natural attitude, transcendental reduction, the transcendental-phenomenological epoche).
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assess the accuracy of one philosopher’s direct evaluation of another philosopher’s position and its pertinence for explaining different evolutions of phenomenology in the twentieth century.
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evaluate the merits and demerits of different methods of analysis deployed in twentieth-century phenomenology, such as: the evidence of inner perception and eidetic intuition; the natural attitude versus the transcendental reduction; the hermeneutic circle and interpretive retrieval.
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distinguish various ‘hermeneutic’ and ‘scientific’ strands within the development of twentieth-century phenomenology and debate the relevance of this to the evaluation of contemporary European thought.
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demonstrate, through written and oral communication skills, advanced critical skills in articulating and assessing significant methodological differences in the development of twentieth-century phenomenology.
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