Introduction to Phenomenology Part 2

In this video, Professor Thorsby discusses Edmund Husserl's critique of Naturalism in Husserl's essay "Philosophy as Rigorous Science".

[MrAlanfalk]

Best lecture I have heard on this subject so far, I can't hardly wait for the rest, thanks for posting this :)

[rjwasser]

Damn Prof. Thorsby, you know how to make this topic digestible. Trying to work my way through Husserl before I attempt to read Heidegger again and you're making it much smoother.

[alexkietzman]

I've been struggling with Husserl and this essay. Very clear presentation that makes reading continental philosophy more enjoyable. Plan to be back frequently for all content. Subscribed

[prashanthirai]

still the best lecture in 2023. Thank you so much!!

[milenacremona]

Thank you so much! All I've read so far has been so hermetic... and I needed to have good understanding of the basis on which I could build.

[rnhim]

underrated channel, i love your content

[michaelboring]

Minor Clarification, There were 2 volumes to the LI. The first was published in 1900, the second in 1901. Fantastic videos by the way! Thank you.

[TrueRedAngel]

The problem with mathematics being the universal language with aliens is that mathematics isn't a language - but a set of concepts that requires a language to communicate. If I write "1+1=2" - that won't mean anything to you unless you are familiar with one funny shape that means "one", another funny shape that means "two", another that means "plus", another that means "equal" - as well as other things such as the way these funny shapes go together. Unless you're familiar with all these symbols (which are the _language_ of mathematics) then "1+1=2" won't seem like a mathematical equation to you, but rather, a scribble.

[roni-sueallen]

Many thanks for these very helpful lectures! Your explanations are really clear. So grateful for the work you've not only put into the videos but into the subject itself. You clearly know your stuff and succeed in conveying difficult concepts with an ease that allows the listener to begin to really get it!

[zhyarnasruddin]

an amazing explination
I really did very much liked your explinations
I hope you keep it up
you are doing an excellent work

[prashanthirai]

This lecture was extremely intereseting and helpful, and tbh, way better than my course current ongoing course of phenomenology. If you have a prior idea of the subject, your lecture really helps to knit that blanket and see the purpose and meaning of the subject. Thank you.

[anggasatya]

A really amazing work Mark, looking forward to your next lecture

[mgm]

What program is used for the presentation? Very cool! Thank you!

[timblackburn]

Missed a flight last night and would have listened to this waking up in der schwarzwald just north of Frieberg... instead events, the insufficient application of reason, a rare but inevitable unexpected consequence of the principle caused something else. Thanks (nevertheless :-)) to Mark for such a great job!

[Cicero]

Excellent class Professor Thorsby, I am enjoying it very much. I just wanted to bring that Husserl was Jewish by some genetics, but was a Christian German citizen, (not that it matters): "...(...) "In 1886 he went to Halle, where he studied psychology and wrote his(...). He also was baptized. /(the same year)/ The next year he became Privatdozent at Halle and married a woman from theProssnitz Jewish community, Malvine Charlotte Steinschneider, who was baptized before the wedding. The couple had three children." (...)" IEP (Marianne Sawicki)
He is the example of the cruelty and evilness of the Nazi ideology. After being one of Historical luminaries of German Philosophy he became an "untouchable", and died in 1938, before WWII, and having lost children fighting with the German Army in the First World War, he was stripped of all his rights as a German citizen and also as a member of Academia.

[HCadrenaline]

youre scuh a great and captivating teacher man, keep it up.

[gxulien]

Very nice presentation with good historical background. TY.

[domwren]

This seems to be getting to the crux of what it might all be about. I've been wondering whether phenomenology was useful, or just some intellectual meandering of little worldly value. I'm still trying to decide.
Thank you for doing a great job on trying to elucidate the topic.

[nemesis]

Very well presented explanations, useful in my Gestalt research - will go back to your other lectures, Thanks!

[josefhansen]

Best lectures I have heard on video, thx