Abstract
The article is a critical study which covers a confrontation of Philosophy of Mind with Husserl's phenomenology presented in an anthology Husserl und die Philosophie des Geistes published by an important German philosopher Manfred Frank. The topics covered in the book are presented by this study as divided into three main areas - the problem of self-consciousness, the problem of time-consciousness and the problem of semantics.
The first part of study presents a confrontation of Husserl's theory of reflexion with contemporary approaches to dispositional self-consciousness (Bayer, Frank) and shows unsolved problems in relation of disposition to reflection (Bayer) and in the concept of pre-reflexive consciousness, the second part on Husserl's theory of time consciousness describes Gerhards Seele's interpretation of time. Theoretically demanding Seele's connection of Kant's and Husserl's theory opens once again problem of time schemes of consciousness, but on more basic level of time as such.
The third part of the study interprets Martens'es Application of the theory of empfhatic metaphor on Husserl's phenomenological language and show that embracing this approach would lead to an abandonment of Husserl's phenomenology.