or terminus of consciousness. I think Husserl would claim that Dennett, though he jettisons much of Descartes' position, hasn't gone far enough and appears to be stuck with a residual Cartesianism. It is the very notion that to be conscious is to be conscious of some intermediary, be it mental or physical, that Husserlian intentionality is opposed to. . It was Edmund Husserl who first developed a phenomenological approach. That mean that he would look at the phenomena of consciousness, and bracket them from any question of whether they are true or not. Reflecting on the formal science of Geometry he came to the conclusion that the objectivity of ideas arose from their assent amongst a community of subjects. This was an intellectual development that closely paralleled Wittgenstein's shift from truth tables to language Metaphysical Naturalism (MN): The thesis that all reality is physical reality. (physicalism) Epistemological Naturalism (EN): The thesis that all genuine knowledge is natural scientific knowledge. (scientism?) Epistemological Naturalism Recast (EN'): The thesis that all genuine propositional knowledge (or all genuine knowledge except know-how) is natural scientific knowledge. Explanation-Theoretic Naturalism (ETN): The thesis that all genuine explanation is natural scientific explanation. (hempelian positivism?) Trivial Naturalism (TN): The thesis that all philosophers ought to know something about natural science. Weisberg Naturalism One (WN1): The thesis that because natural science has been successful at gaining knowledge, philosophy ought to become natural science. Cerberus Naturalism (WNk): The thesis that (a) epistemology is the study of the epistemic aspects of human cognition and of how humans can improve their epistemic performance; (b) one cannot understand the epistemic status of a state without understanding the processes that generate that state; (c) the main project of epistemology is to describe the processes...
