Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden
Titel des Promotionsprojekts: Gefühle, Werte und Instinkte: Überlegungen zu einer genetischen Phänomenologie des Fühlens bei Edmund Husserl
Erstbetreuer: Prof. Dr. Karl Mertens
Zweitbetreuende: Prof. Dr. Jörn Müller (Würzburg), Prof. Dr. Michela Summa (Würzburg)
Abstract:
Die meisten vorhandenen Interpretationen von Husserls phänomenologischer Emotionstheorie beruhen auf seinen intentionalen Analysen der Gefühlsakte in den Logischen Untersuchungen sowie in den Manuskripten aus seiner späteren Göttinger Zeit (1909-1914), die unter dem Titel “Phänomenologie des Fühlens” verfasst wurden. Das Problem ist jedoch, dass diesen Analysen Husserls spätere genetisch-phänomenologische Einsichten fehlen. Daher sind die vorhandenen Interpretationen in vielerlei Hinsicht nicht mit seiner Spätphilosophie vereinbar. Vor diesem Hintergrund versucht meine Arbeit, Husserls Projekt der Phänomenologie des Fühlens aus der Perspektive seiner Spätphilosophie, insbesondere der Phänomenologie der Instinkte, systematisch zu rekonstruieren.
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Titel des Promotionsprojekts: Language and Human Experience: A Philosophical Investigation into the Way Language Shapes Human Experience through a Heideggerian Perspective
Erstbetreuer: Prof. Dr. Karl Mertens
Zweitbetreuende: Prof. Dr. Andrea Altobrando (Padua), Prof. Dr. Michela Summa (Würzburg)
Abstract:
This dissertation draws on Heidegger’s philosophy to investigate the role of language in human experience, focusing on two interrelated questions: whether experience is fundamentally pervaded by language, and whether language can fully reach and express the concrete fullness of lived life. Having reconstructed and clarified the internal framework of Heidegger’s thinking on language, from his early to his later works, the project situates the inquiry within a broader horizon: encompassing the hermeneutic-phenomenological tradition, debates within analytic philosophy on the conceptual structure of experience, and Heidegger’s late thinking in encounter with East Asian thought.
Kontakt: wenqi.yang@stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de
Titel des Promotionsprojekts: Retrospective reasons and the meaning of action
Erstbetreuer: Prof. Dr. Karl Mertens
Zweitbetreuende: Prof. Dr. Jörn Müller (Würzburg), Prof. Elijah Millgram (Utah)
Abstract:
This dissertation concerns a phenomenon sometimes classified as involving practical reasons that has not been widely discussed. The typical form of practical reasons provides guidance for what to do at the moment of choice. Moreover, by recommending or regulating appropriate action in a given decision-making situation, such reasons also determine the level of understanding of the action’s relation to reality that our intellect is expected to achieve. By contrast, retrospective reasons emerge only after a choice has been made. Building on that choice, we continue to act, and through these subsequent actions we gradually come to understand the meaning of the original action. As later events unfold, this understanding is retrospectively integrated into an interpretation of what we did in that initial moment and why we did it. In such a structure of reasons—emerging only over time as they gradually take shape—reasons arrive too late to provide the kind of guidance for action characteristic of other practical reasons. I will argue that retrospective reasons for action are not aimed at providing present action with a correct orientation toward reality, by which an agent could securely and effectively achieve certain intended ends, interests, or values. On the contrary, they indicate the limits of practical reason in the present and preserve a blank space beyond those rational boundaries, in which the agent can, through action and non-intellectual bodily experience, generate new meanings and integrate new practical reasons.
Kontakt: xi.chen@stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de
