Sentences with phrase «phenomenological accounts»

The modalities are featured most prominently in phenomenological accounts of human experience, in some analyses of action, and in the pragmatic and temporal factors of knowledge such as prediction and verification.

Phenomenological accounts assume that first - person perceptual experience - tokens are more certainly known than any inference about their external causes.

The movement begins with Kierkegaard, who tries to do two things: to give a phenomenological description of anxiety as the occasion (not the cause) of sin, and to give a phenomenological account of the forms which result from man's fall such as loss of selfhood, impersonal objectivism, and despair.

The method is historical and phenomenological: You can study and teach what all these people used to think (history) or how they now behave (the phenomenological account of ritual, ethical systems, kinship relations, etc.).

Not exact matches

Phenomenological and causal accounts make different assumptions about what is most clearly and most certainly known in perception.

Thus traditional phenomenological and causal accounts of perception embody epistemic attitudes which are rationally «incompatible» in the sense that a fully rational thinker should not hold both at the same time.

These two are what I shall call (i) the phenomenological (Or sense - datum) and (ii) the causal (or physiological) accounts of perception.