Quotes

"Dialogue is mutual search for a new reality, not debate to win with stronger arguments. In a dialogue propositions are pointers toward a common new reality; not against each other to win a verbal battle, but complementing each other in an effort to accommodate legitimate goals of all parties, inspired by theories and values, and constructive-creative-concrete enough to become a causa finalis". Galtuung


"I use the concept of affect as away of talking about a margin of manouverability, the 'where we might be able to go' and 'what we might be able to do' in every present situation. I guess 'affect' is a word I use for 'hope': Massumi


"A discourse is a system of words, actions, rules, beliefs, and institutions that share common values. Particular discourses sustain particular worldviews. We might even think of a discourse as a worldview in action. Discourses tend to be invisible--taken for granted as part of the fabric of reality."Fairclough


Emergence is “the principle that entities exhibit properties which are meaningful only when attributed to the whole, not to its parts.” Checkland


"What the designer cares about is whether the user perceives that some action is possible (or in the case of perceived non-affordances, not possible)." Norman




Tuesday 20 April 2010

Phenomenology


Phenomenology


Edmund Husserl

Natural standpoint - common sense > philosophical


c.f positivism range of experience limited to empirical objects that can be studied.

examine content of conciousness


phenomenological method



systematic analysis of conciousness and its objects

bracket out  - suspend presuppositions.


phenomenological reduction

intentionality



unity between mind and object


discloses  > science of essences

eidetic reduction



narrow  to communion

Maurice Merleau-Ponty





existential

"lived-world" context in which experience everything
Horizon limits of


"being-in-the world"

not just another thing but subject

acto of perception +m object no distance uinity

body subject

Martin Heidegger

dasein - being there
dwelling staying with things
gather the 4 fold earth sky divinity mortal

bauen

building dwelling thinking
genius loci

enables

not asbstracrt mental constructions but authentic

being at peace in protected place

Christian Norberg-Schulz


apply by

hermeneutics

illuminate essential qualities

recover meaning disclose

place in position of creator part of single spirit

hermeneutic circle

reciprocal relate parts to whole
whole reflected in parts
parts disclose whole

Hans-Georg Gadamer

understandiong
always personal
prejudice preconception
no direct contact?

ask question of object ?




Session 4


The Hermeneutic Circle


The whole is reflected in the parts,



just as together the parts disclose the whole.






Session 4


Summary of Phenomenology 



1) Phenomenology is defined as the study or description of phenomena from the viewpoint of the experiencing person.


2) It is part of a broad philosophical tradition that rejects the fundamental claims of positivism.


3) Phenomenologists believe their task is to interpret meaning rather than search for objective, causal knowledge.


4) Appropriate objects of inquiry are any phenomena that appear to human consciousness, that is, anything that may be experienced.


5) No assumptions are made about these phenomena, they may be non-physical phenomena as well as physical objects.


6) Every act of consciousness is said to be intentional in that it is conscious ofsomething outside itself; so a unity is conceived between the conscious mind and that of which it is conscious.
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