Purposes
The EMCA seminar for the fall-winter of 2012 will focus on the impact of phenomenology on the development of ethnomethodology. The classes meet Tuesday of every two weeks at 1:30 pm in Room 102 of Building #2, Rokkodai campus, Kobe University.
We shall start with an introductory article by J. O'Neil and go back to some of the themes in Husserl's writings and to reading Gurwitsch's and Schuetz's writings. We shall then turn to Garfinkel's article of 1949 and the doctoral thesis of 1954. Our reading will emphasis (1) criticism of psychologism as the hallmark of phenomenology, (2) behavioral or intersubjective manifestations of orderliness as the hallmark of people's method, (3) spacial-and-personal categorizations, such as "walkers-in-walking" of various kinds, with related categorizations, such as intention-categories, in view of learning methodology of ordinary walkers.
We shall start with an introductory article by J. O'Neil and go back to some of the themes in Husserl's writings and to reading Gurwitsch's and Schuetz's writings. We shall then turn to Garfinkel's article of 1949 and the doctoral thesis of 1954. Our reading will emphasis (1) criticism of psychologism as the hallmark of phenomenology, (2) behavioral or intersubjective manifestations of orderliness as the hallmark of people's method, (3) spacial-and-personal categorizations, such as "walkers-in-walking" of various kinds, with related categorizations, such as intention-categories, in view of learning methodology of ordinary walkers.