Edmund Husserl Quotes on Mind

Husserl's phenomenological analysis of mind — across the Logical Investigations (1900–01), Ideas (1913), the Cartesian Meditations (1931), and the late Crisis (1936) — develops the most sustained twentieth-century descriptive science of consciousness as it is given in lived experience. The intentionality of consciousness — that consciousness is always consciousness of something — is the constitutive structural feature of every mental act, and the phenomenological reduction (epochē) brackets the natural attitude's commitment to the existence of the world in order to attend purely to the intentional structures through which the world is given in experience. The framework defined twentieth-century continental philosophy of mind and is the principal alternative to the analytic philosophy of mind that descends from Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein.