PEL Presents Closereads: Husserl on Perceiving Minds

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Mark Linsenmayer

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

On Edmund Husserl's Ideas, Vol. 2 (1928), Section 3, "The Constitution of the Spiritual World," Ch. 1, "Opposition Between the Naturalistic and Personalistic Worlds."

Given Husserl's method of "reduction" whereby he sets aside the metaphysical status of objects in the natural world (are they mind-independent or merely ideas?), we wanted to see how he accounts for our ability to directly perceive other people's minds. We don't just perceive their bodies and our own bodies and deduce that others must be like us mentally, but we perceive both our minds and those of others as strata (aspects) of physical bodies.

Read along with us, starting on p. 183 (PDF p. 101).

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0:00.0	This is Close Reeds.
0:03.0	A philosophy podcast with Mark and Wes.
0:05.0	I'm Wes Allone and I'm Mark Lintonmeyer.
0:08.0	We are embarking on a new unit.
0:12.0	We took a week off, actually two weeks of recording off, but a week for you folks.
0:17.0	We are on partially examined life, right in the middle, two out of four episodes probably through a unit on ethics, on the phenomenology of ethics, on phenomenology of sympathy, ethical intuitionism, sentimentalism, considering things like that.
0:36.3	And so we started with Franz Bertantano. We're going to
0:38.9	read Max Schaller and Edith Stein. And the missing link in there is Edmund Hustrel, that while
0:46.5	Franz Brantano was the grandfather phenomenology, Hustrel was the guy who actually came up with it. I know we
0:53.4	just did Hustrall on the show pretty recently,
0:56.7	but after reading some of the Scheller,
0:58.9	it seemed like it would be nice to figure out what exactly in Hustral he is channeling.
1:05.0	So I know one of the sources is Cartesian meditations that we covered on the show.
1:09.8	Probably not in enough detail,
1:11.9	frankly. It would be nice to return to that sometime. But I ran across this. So ideas part two.
1:18.4	So we read some of ideas. That came out in 1913 or so, something like that.
1:29.6	Ideas Part 2.
1:35.1	So this is like Das Kapital, like where there's a volume 2 and there's volume 3 that were not published until after his death.
1:43.1	But it looks like from looking at the intro here of Ideas Part 2 that he wrote most of it immediately after writing part 1.
1:44.8	So, you know, by 1915.
1:47.0	And then Edith Stein, one of our other authors,
1:51.7	was his research assistant and actually did some redactions, you know, or, you know, helped process his lectures from 1913, 1914,
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