The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy

Volume 18, Special Issue: Gian-Carlo Rota and The End of Objectivity, 2019

Burt Hopkins, John Drummond, Burt Hopkins, John Drummond

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781000293357
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

Volume XVIII

Special Issue: Gian-Carlo Rota and The End of Objectivity, 2019

Aim and Scope: The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual international forum for phenomenological research in the spirit of Husserl's groundbreaking work and the extension of this work by such figures as Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer.

Contributors: Gabriele Baratelli, Stefania Centrone, Giovanna C. Cifoletti, Jean-Marie Coquard, Steven Crowell, Deborah De Rosa, Daniele De Santis, Nicolas de Warren, Agnese Di Riccio, Aurélien Djian, Yuval Dolev, Mirja Hartimo, Burt C. Hopkins, Talia Leven, Ah Hyun Moon, Luis Niel, Fabrizio Palombi, Mario Ariel González Porta, Gian-Carlo Rota, Michael Roubach, Franco Trabattoni and Michele Vagnetti.

Submissions: Manuscripts, prepared for blind review, should be submitted to the Editors ([email protected] and [email protected]) electronically via e-mail attachments.

Part 1

Text

1 The end of objectivity

The legacy of phenomenology¹

Gian-Carlo Rota

DOI: 10.4324/9781003131250-1

Contents

Foreword: the end of objectivity and the legacy of Gian-Carlo Rota

FABRIZIO PALOMBI

Editors’ note

FABRIZIO PALOMBI AND DEBORAH DE ROSA

PART I
Introduction

1 A brief description of phenomenology

The place of phenomenology in philosophy today

The relevance of phenomenology for other fields

What phenomenology is for and what it is against

2 Myths of our time

Declarative sentence

Canonized logic

Precision

Definition

Quantity

Priority of physical reality

Homogeneous personality and rational behavior

Staring

Progress

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3 Phenomenology vs. Cartesianism

Focusing on philosophical problems non-reductionistically

The equiprimordiality of philosophy

The limitations of Cartesianism

Description of reading

Description of chess

4 Fundierung

Discussion of the term ‘existence’

Bracketing as non-reductionist focusing

Sense from words

The airline schedule and the bridge game

5 ‘Reality’

The problem of sense

Discussion of being-in-the-world

Arbitrariness vs. context dependence

Recognizing reductionist anxiety

The newspaper

Description of a key

Description of creativity

Discussion of phenomenological description

6 The method of phenomenological investigation

Discussion of our approach to phenomenology

PART II
Analysis of context

1 Discussion of role of context in phenomenological investigation

Passengers at the airport

Books, art, and reductionism

Reductionism and Artificial Intelligence research

A reductionist description of college

Reductionism in science

2 Fundierung and the trump card

Layering of Fundierung and equiprimordiality

The Coke can and the blackboard

Passenger on a plane

The confession

The hammer

The signature

The computer program and the pen

Looking at a student and playing cards

The letter and the dinosaur bones

3 Fundierung as a worldly phenomenon

An incontrovertible fact

The problem of how things relate

The mind/brain paradox as a confusion of layers

Introducing the ontological difference

4 Function

The ‘role’

The laundry

Triangle on the blackboard

Seeing vs. viewing

Wine tasting

Mark vs. expression

Recognizing a car

Letting

5 The method and vocabulary of phenomenological investigation

Keyness

Longfellow Bridge

Decontextualization

The situation

Objects as networks of functions

The knife

Equiprimordiality

Ontic and ontological

6 Eidos

Viewing

The issue of the ‘existence’

‘As’

Knowledge

Bracketing and learning

A decontextualizing process

Phenomenology of learning

PART III
Analysis of project

1 Preliminary discussion of time

2 Identity

3 Introduction to Dasein

The basic idea of Dasein

The project

Dealing with

Playing the piano

The alreadiness of Dasein’s being-in-the-world

The actor in a context

Comments on the project

The class

4 Discussion of distance

5 The structure of projects

Project and being-in-the-world

Grasp

Spoken language

The problem of relationship

The projectual sense of grasp

Ontological modes of familiarization

Sizing-up as potentially non-rational

6 Mood

Fear

Emotional reductionism

The emotional already

7 Disclosure

Modes of understanding

Phenomenological investigation and scientific reasoning

Some notes on the method

Evidence and truth

PART IV
Transcendence

1 Transcendence and time constitution

Beyonding

The role of context in transcendence

Discussion of time

The right/left wing split in phenomenology

2 The jump

The primordial Ereignis

Transcendence, facticity, and failure

3 Time constitution

History of the philosophical problem of time

4 The nought

Angst

Thrownness

5 Projectual ek-stases

PART V
Worldliness

1 Das Man

The public Dasein

Positive forms of das Man

An escape into the already

The disclosure of das Man by mood

2 Co-being and the ‘Who’

The unity of Dasein

To ‘be with’

Co-being as an independent ontological phenomenon

The freedom of the other

To be ‘with’ objects

Care

3 Angst and the ‘not quite’

Sense dependence of all of Dasein’s projects

Inauthentic Angst and emotional reductionism

4 The fall

PART VI
Authenticity

1 Authentic Angst

2 At-homeness

Familiarity

Intelligence

General discussion of authenticity

3 Being-to

4 The call

Friendship and loving

Being lost

The call as a mode of disclosure

5 Decision

The requirement of choice of an active project

Letting as the ontological project

PART VII
Summary

PART VIII
Appendices

1 Overview and commentary of other works

2 Examples of phenomenological descriptions

Stickiness

Hole

Serious

Necktie

Casualness

Afterword: “A very fresh perspective”: On Gian-Carlo Rota as mathematician, philosopher, and tea...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Part 1 Text
• Part I Introduction
• Part II Analysis of context
• Part III Analysis of project
• Part IV Transcendence
• Part V Worldliness
• Part VI Authenticity
• Part VII Summary
• Afterword: “A very fresh perspective”: On Gian-Carlo Rota as mathematician, philosopher, and teacher
• Index of Names
• Part 2 Discussion essays on the philosophy of R. H. Lotze (ed. Daniele De Santis and Nicolas de Warren)
• Part 3 Essays on Jacob Klein (ed. Giovanna C. Cifoletti)
• Part 4 Phenomenology and mathematics (ed. Michael Roubach)
• Part 5 Varia
• Part 6 In review
• Part 7 In memoriam
• Index