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| PHIL0214-2 | Questions of phenomenological psychology
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Arnaud Dewalque |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| All year long |
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Course contents :
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| This course is devoted to the examination of a topic at the crossroads of phenomenological tradition and philosophy of mind. In 2012-2013 the topic will be: feelings, sensations, sense impressions. At least for classical empiricism, sense impressions have been regarded as the 'raw material' of our mental life. More recently, investigations on sense impressions have received a new impulse from the theories of phenomenal consciousness: roughly speaking, being phenomenally conscious and having sensations or feelings may appear as hardly separable features. Within the framework of this course, we will address a small number of related questions. Theses questions will be divided into two groups:
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Sensations and representations: What kind of relation holds between sense data (or qualitative data) and representational contents? Are the notions of 'sense data' and 'qualia' still usable in the present days? Is there an intentionality of sensations?
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Sensations and unity: Where does the (subjective and objective) unity of our sensory experiences come from? What are 'sensory fields' and how do they come into existence?
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| By the end of the course, students are supposed to understand what is at stake in the topic under examination. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Bachelor in Philosophy. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Lectures based on the main texts which have contributed to the development of the studied topic. It is expected that students take part actively to the study of the texts. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The course takes place during the whole year. See: http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Complete bibliography will be made available during the course. Set books will include:
- Ernst Mach, The Analysis of Sensations and the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical. Trans. by C. M. Williams. La Salle: Open Court, 1984.
- Franz Brentano, Sensory and Noetic Consciousness. Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint III. Transl. by M. Schättle and L. McAlister. London: Routledge, 1981.
- Edmund Husserl, Logical Investigations. Trans. J. N. Findlay. London: Routledge, 1973.
- Austen Clark, A Theory of Sentience. Oxford: OUP, 2000.
- Michael Tye, « The Intentionality of Feelings and Experiences », in Ten Problems of Consciousness. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995, Ch. 4, 93-130.
- Michael Tye, Consciousness and Persons. Unity and Identity. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.
- Tim Crane, « The Intentional Structure of Consciousness », in A. Jokic & Q. Smith (eds.), Consciousness: New Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford-New York: OUP, 2003.
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Participants are asked to choose one of the two following assessment modalities:
1/ Oral exam on the whole course content (100%).
2/ Personal work. The work will consist either in presenting the argumentation-line of one of the main protagonists of the debate or in reexamining a classical author of the phenomenological tradition from issues discussed during the course. The examination will be made on the basis of:
- oral presentation of the work (50%)
- written revised version of the work (50%)
Schedule will be determined with participants in the first lesson. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Teacher
Arnaud Dewalque
Dpt of Philosophy
7, Place du 20-août, Building A1/2nd floor
B-4000 Liège
Phone 0032 (4) 366 55 93
E-mail a.dewalque@ulg.ac.be |
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| Items online : |
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| Paper on related topic - in French (DOC.1) |
| A. Dewalque, "Expérience perceptuelle et contenus multiples", in Bulletin d'Analyse Phénoménologique VII/1 (2011), p. 153-185. |
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| Paper on related topic - in French (DOC.2) |
| A. Dewalque, "Intentionnalité cum fundamento in re: La constitution des champs sensoriels chez Stumpf et Husserl", dans Bulletin d'Analyse Phénoménologique VIII/1 (2012), p. 70-96. |
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| Paper Draft on related topic - in French (DOC.3) |
| A. Dewalque, "La richesse du sensible: Stumpf contre les néokantiens" (draft, août 2012), à paraître dans les actes du colloque "Les Esthétiques de Kant", Presses de l'Université de Rennes. |
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| Talk Draft on related topic (DOC.4) |
| A. Dewalque, "Les contenus perceptuels et leurs parties", Workshop sur le thème: Existe-t-il des contenus non conceptuels?, Université de Luxembourg, 30 avril 2012. |
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