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At long last there are hints that contemporary philosophy is beginning to transcend the sharp separation between analytic philosophy and phenomenology, which has so deeply divided twentieth-century Western thought for fifty years. The same conflict pervades psychological theory as well as philosophy, and will, apparently, be overcome only with great difficulty. The hints of emerging dialogue are no more than hints, but in any discussion of meeting points of psychoanalysis and philosophy — especially concerned with philosophy of mind — it seems appropriate to focus further inquiry upon a controversy that seriously divides both disciplines.
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A volume of essays reflecting upon the relationship of these two movements is presented in H. A. Durfee, Analytic Philosophy And Phenomenology (The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1976).
In addition, the most useful evidence of attempts to transcend the division are K-O. Apel, Analytic Philosophy of Language And The Geisteswissenschaften (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1967);
S. A. Erickson, Language And Being: An Analytic Phenomenology (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970);
W. Mays and S. C. Brown, Linguistic Analysis And Phenomenology (London: Macmillan, 1972);
A. Montefiore, Philosophy And Personal Relations (Montreal: McGill-Queens, 1973);
A. Montefiore, Philosophie et rapports interpresonnels (Montreal: Les Presses Universitaires, 1973);
E. Pivcevic, Phenomenology And Philosophical Understanding (London: Cambridge University Press, 1975).
J. L. Austin, Philosophical Papers (London: Oxford University Press, 1961), p. 130.
M. Heidegger, An Introduction To Metaphysics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959) p. 114.
See also M. Merleau-Ponty, The Visible And The Invisible (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968).
M. Dufrenne, Language And Philosophy (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963) p. 16.
Ibid., p. 71.
Ibid., p. 96.
A-T. Tymieniecka, The Phenomenological Realism Of The Possible Worlds(Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1974) p. 327.
Dufrenne, Language And Philosophy, p. 96.
See R. C. Solomon, “Sense And Essence: Frege And Husserl,” International Philosophical Quarterly, 11 (1970) 378–401; also reprinted in Durfee, Analytic Philosophy And Phenomenology.
See J. Compton, “Hare, Husserl, And Philosophic Discovery,” Dialogue 3 (1964) pp. 42–51;
R. Schmitt, “Phenomenology And Analysis,” Philosophy And Phenomenological Research, 23 (1962–63), pp. 101–110.
See also P. Ricoeur, “Husserl And Wittgenstein On Language,” in E. N. Lee and M. Mandelbaum, Phenomenology And Existentialism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967), to which I am especially indebted in this section of the essay. The Compton and Ricoeur essays are both reprinted in Durfee, Analytic Philosophy And Phenomenology.
It is clear that some analytic philosophers do maintain major features of the doctrine of intentionality. See S. Hampshire, Thought And Action (London: Chatto and Windus, 1959).
G. Ryle, “Phenomenology,” in Phenomenology, Goodness And Beauty, Aristotelian Society Supplimentary Volume 11 (London: Harrison, 1932). Also reprinted in Durfee, Analytic Philosophy And Phenomenology.
It is especially strange that Mohanty does not deal directly with the controversy as posed and discussed by Ryle. See J. N. Mohanty, The Concept Of Intentionality (St. Louis: W. H. Green, 1972).
Ryle, “Phenomenology,” p. 79.
A. J. Ayer, “Phenomenology And Linguistic Analysis,” in Proceedings Of The Aristotelian Society, Supplimentary Volume 33 (London: Harrison, 1959) pp. 111–115. Also reprinted in Durfee, Analytic Philosophy And Phenomenology.
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Durfee, H.A. (1987). Analytic Philosophy, Phenomenology, and the Concept of Consciousness. In: Foundational Reflections. American University Publications in Philosophy, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3593-8_12
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