Mathew Cohen

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Are transcendental idealism and transcendal realism really as incompatible as Kant (and for that matter H.Alison) argues?

I find myself going in a paradoxical loop when I think about the distinctions. Insofar that it seems that the two need each other instead of one being valid over another. For example, let us...

12 March 2014 3,003 14 View

What are the problems with Husserl's phenomenology?

I understand there are critiques about his notion of life-world and epoche. I need some clarity on what the problems are exactly.

07 February 2014 8,725 17 View

Is it right to label Gadamer's philosophy of hermeneutics as "Platonic phenomenology"?

I see Gadamer's philosophy in Truth and Method as radar. An event happens we get certain signals. Based on these signals we send out a response (our response is heavily laden with language that...

07 February 2014 8,928 20 View

Can you please help me disentangle the ideas around the Doxic, Neutrality, and Positionality.

As I am independently studying Husserlian phenomenology I am hoping that someone can please help correct my understanding of it: in a person's intentional Act there is an object that it intends....

14 August 2013 933 4 View

Is it possible to perform Husserl's epoche, and why or why not?

On a previous discussion thread of mine ("Is Heidegger's departure from Husserl due to Heidegger's turn to metaphysics..."), some responses have made me question my understanding of what the point...

07 July 2013 3,793 7 View

Is academia your vocation or your calling? (do you differentiate between the two?)

Doing research on 'callings' in the workplace

31 January 2013 3,536 12 View