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Emotions and cognitions. The evolution of the theory of emotions in the first Husserl
Gyemant, Maria
2013Annual Conference “ Describing and exploring early phenomenology”
 

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Keywords :
emotion; intentionality; Husserl
Abstract :
[en] In the Fifth Logical Investigation, after a series of objections to Brentano’s thesis that presentations constitute the most basic type of mental acts, Husserl offers the alternative of a fundamental distinction between objectifying and non-objectifying mental acts. Objectifying acts include the first two Brentanian classes: presentations and judgments. Thus the class of emotions is singled out as the typical model for non-objectifying acts. However, Husserl changes his mind on this issue later on. We find a new and rather surprising theory of emotions in his Ideas I of 1913. In the §117 for instance, Husserl states clearly that all acts, emotions included, are objectifying because they all constitute objects. The only difference between emotions and cognitions is that emotions constitute values as their objects. Since all acts are objectifying, the difference is now between kinds of objects rather than kinds of acts. It seems though that the role values play in our mental life is more complicated. Not only are they dependent objects constructed from objects of simple presentations or judgments, but they are also the sort of objects that can motivate other acts. So, while emotions are in Husserl always dependent on cognitions, since wanting something necessarily supposes, as in Brentano, a previous presentation of that thing, certain emotions can also play a foundational role for cognitions. Hence the question addressed in this paper: is the relation between emotions and cognitions a symmetrical one since both can play the role of foundational act for the other? And if this is the case what is the specificity of emotions as mental acts and how can they be distinguished from cognitions?
Disciplines :
Philosophy & ethics
Author, co-author :
Gyemant, Maria ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de philosophie > Phénoménologies
Language :
English
Title :
Emotions and cognitions. The evolution of the theory of emotions in the first Husserl
Publication date :
12 June 2013
Event name :
Annual Conference “ Describing and exploring early phenomenology”
Event organizer :
North America Society for Early Phenomenology
Event place :
London (ON), Canada
Event date :
12-14 juin 2013
Audience :
International
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