The The Intentional Spectrum and Intersubjectivity: Phenomenology and the Pittsburgh Neo-Hegelians: 39 (Series in Continental Thought) - Hardcover

Barber, Michael D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821419617 ISBN 13: 9780821419618

Publisher: Ohio University Press, 2011

Synopsis

World-renowned analytic philosophers John McDowell and Robert Brandom, dubbed "Pittsburgh Neo-Hegelians," recently engaged in an intriguing debate about perception. In The Intentional Spectrum and Intersubjectivity Michael D. Barber is the first to bring phenomenology to bear not just on the perspectives of McDowell or Brandom alone, but on their intersection. He argues that McDowell accounts better for the intelligibility of empirical content by defending holistically functioning, reflectively distinguishable sensory and intellectual intentional structures. He reconstructs dimensions implicit in the perception debate, favoring Brandom on knowledge's intersubjective features that converge with the ethical characteristics of intersubjectivity Emmanuel Levinas illuminates.

Phenomenology becomes the third partner in this debate between two analytic philosophers, critically mediating their discussion by unfolding the systematic interconnectionamong perception, intersubjectivity, metaphilosophy, and ethics.

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Review:

"Michael Barber's The Intentional Spectrum and Intersubjectivity: Phenomenology and the Pittsburgh Neo-Hegelians carefully and thoroughly analyzes for the first time ways in which Brandom's and McDowell's thinking, particularly about percepti

About the Author:

Michael D. Barber is dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of philosophy at St. Louis University. He is the author of several books on the phenomenology of the social world, his most recent being The Participating Citizen: A Biography of Alfred Schutz.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0821419617
• ISBN 13: 9780821419618
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368