Husserl’s Critique of Lotze and Its Relation to McDowell and the “Myth of the Given” [Special Issue]
Issue: Issue 18 • Author/s: Daniel Guilhermino
Topics: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of mind, Theoretical philosophy
The purpose of this paper is twofold: I want to investigate (i) to what extent Husserl’s critique of Lotze can provide a phenomenological contribution to the contemporary analytic debate on the Myth of the Given, and (ii) to what extent this critique can be related to McDowell’s conceptualism. We will see that Husserl’s phenomenological clarification of the acts of knowledge comes close to McDowell’s conceptualism in some respects, but fundamentally moves away from it in some others. Specifically, we will see that McDowell’s conceptualism would fail to follow Husserl’s “master…