ABSTRACT
The structure of intersubjectivity appears with increasing prominence in Edmund Husserl’s writing. Husserl’s phenomenology of empathy features the experience of localization and movement in space, in consciously experiencing one’s own lived body and, coordinately, in empathically experiencing another’s lived body. In the Prolegomena of the Logical Investigations Husserl outlined a conception of “pure logic” that can be seen developing after his day in model-theoretic semantics in the style of Alfred Tarski’s work. In On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time, Husserl parses the temporal flow of experience, especially a sequence of perceptions in the stream of consciousness. Husserl’s analysis of the constitution of self and other and things in the world is a story of how the noematic meanings of these things work, of how they work and hang together. In Husserlian idiom, the “constitution” of self and other and surrounding world forms a holistic phenomenological structure, a pattern of meaning.
