Thinking the Float Tank – Friday, August 25, 2023 (Day 2)
The Problem of Impure Experience: Nishida and the Origin of Intentionality
Speaker Bio:
Gregory S. Moss is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before joining the faculty at CUHK in 2016 he was a lecturer in philosophy at Clemson University from 2014-2016. He completed PhD in philosophy in August 2014 under Distinguished Research Professor Richard Dien Winfield and was awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship in Bonn, Germany (2013-2014). Gregory Moss’s scholarly work is mainly focused on systematic metaphysical and epistemological questions that stem from the Post-Kantian German and Ancient Greek philosophical traditions. He is the author of Hegel’s Foundation Free Metaphysics,: The Logic of Singularity, (Routledge 2020), which won the Hegel PD prize for 2022.
Abstract:
According to Husserl’s phenomenology, intentionality is a fundamental feature of the structure of consciousness. In this talk I draw upon Nishida’s concept of pure experience to argue that intentionality is not a fundamental structure, but a derivative form of conscious life. In conclusion, I reconstruct how Nishida’s logic of paradox can account for the existence of intentional structures from the undifferentiated character of pure experience.
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