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Document Details : Title: Het Husserl-debat tussen Dreyfus en Searle Author(s): SUCAET, Peter Journal: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie Volume: 87 Issue: 1 Date: 2025 Pages: 127-148 DOI: 10.2143/TVF.87.1.3294641 Abstract : Dreyfus claims that Searle’s views on intentionality and the social world are similar to Husserl’s but criticizes Searle’s ideas in light of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. This paper’s thesis is that both the analytic and continental traditions have unjustly neglected this critique. The article compares Husserl’s notion of the life-world with Searle’s philosophy of mind, specifically his concept of Background, which is analogous to the lifeworld in Husserl. Next, the paper examines Dreyfus’ criticism, which moves from a Heideggerian to a Merleau-Pontyian perspective. The paper concludes that Dreyfus’s viewpoint is closer to Husserl’s in The Crisis than is commonly assumed, and that the concept of Background is best understood as arising from the actions of embodied social beings, as Merleau-Ponty proposes. |
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