Description, Language, Other Minds, Reduction, and Phenomenology

Description, Langage, Autrui, Réduction et Phénoménologie

Timur Cengiz Uçan (1)

1 UBM - Université Bordeaux Montaigne

How to think a unique and determinative turn in analytic philosophy of mind? To answer this question this article first presents an attempt to render clear that analytic phenomenology, by contrast with conceptions of phenomenology of the XXth century, beneficially dispenses with several methodological and conceptual assumptions that were assumed to be compulsory, as phenomenological reduction, a notion of synthesis, and a philosophical notion of the a priori. It then presents some eventual difficulties to the achievement of a phenomenological turn within analytic philosophy, which are, the neglect of historicity, abstractionism, the acknowledgement of the place of language in our lives, and solipsism. It finally presents several demands that concern the felicity of contemporary analytic phenomenologies, namely, anti-abstractionism, fallibilism, attention to polyadic relations, and the integration of ecological and decolonial concerns of our cultures.

Mots clés: description; language; other minds; reduction; solipsism

Domaines: Philosophie

Timur Cengiz Uçan. Description, Language, Other Minds, Reduction, and Phenomenology. Philosophy Study, 2023, 13 (9), ⟨10.17265/2159-5313/2023.09.005⟩. ⟨hal-04357191⟩