creators_name: Brown, Steven Ravett type: preprint datestamp: 2002-05-10 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:55 metadata_visibility: show title: Must phenomenology rest on paradox? subjects: cog-psy subjects: phil-epist subjects: phil-mind full_text_status: public keywords: Husserl, phenomenology, gestalts, cognition, Gurwitsch, philosophy of mind abstract: Husserl made certain assumptions about the nature of the components of experienced phenomena derived from and similar to the assumptions of the psychologists of his time. I will present some of those assumptions, and argue, and support that argument with evidence, that they are incorrect. I claim that if that is true, then Husserlian methodology is flawed, to the extent that for certain investigations both the epoch? and the method of eidetic variation necessitate circularity which invalidates their utility. 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