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10.1 Husserl’s version of transcendental subjectivism—Challenging the self-evidence of Descartes’ ego—Factual recognitions and ontological claims: suspending all non-self-evident claims, including modal ones—Being as an appearance of validity—The decisive maintenance of the phenomenological suspension—Our natural connectionism seems to undermine a complete bracketing. 10.2 Beyond the Cartesian-Kantian “I think”: phenomenology as the study of the stream of consciousness—What distinguishes it from a contextualist epistemology—The Husserlian insistence on modality—The notion of “as if” applied to perceptive, retentive and recollective states—Explaining as-if experiences by means of faults and fictionalizations—Modal issues at the core of Husserl’s concerns: “certainty of being” as stubbornly present. 10.3 Intentionality—How awareness is impregnated by otherness—The world and our intentional activities—Is an interdependent relationship sound?—External things as things meant—The spectrum of Husserl’s self-repudiated psychologism. 10.4 Imaginative and suppositional capacities: Husserl after Aristotle on phantasy—The rationale of our thinking through images that are anchored to a hypoleptic background—Aquinas’ misunderstanding of the Aristotelian doctrine of supposition—Pros and cons of Husserl’s immanent philosophy—Hermberg’s and Beyer’s readings: a “lifeworldly” contextualism?
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References are to the Husserliana edition, the pagination of which is given in the margins of the English translation.
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Dorion Cairns does not make a distinction between the expressions “reine Vorstellbarkeit” and “Phantasierbarkeit” translating both as “imaginableness” (Husserl 1960: 66).
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This is a key notion in the final part of Aristotle’s De anima (1957: 427b15 ff.)
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In the same vein, W. S. Hett translates Aristotle’s as “judgement”.
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Venturinha, N. (2018). Bracketing Modality. In: Description of Situations. SpringerBriefs in Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00154-4_10
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