Justificatory Force of Experiences

Dr. Philip Berghofer is a Post-Doc researcher and lecturer at the Philosophy Department of the University of Graz, Austria. His research focus centers around epistemology, phenomenology, philosophy of physics, and philosophy of mathematics. His current position is funded by the research project “Intentionality and Symbolic Construction: The Phenomenological Background of Hermann Weyl’s Philosophy of Physics” granted by the Austrian Science Fund. Prior to this, he was a recipient of a DOC-Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Berghofer is the designated president of the Austrian Society of Phenomenology, designated Book Review Editor of Husserl Studies (Springer), and the co-editor of the volume Phenomenological Approaches to Physics (Synthese Library, 2020).

• Introduction.- Part I. A Phenomenological Conception of Experiential Justification. 1. Motivating PCEJ.- 2. Perceptual Justification.- 3. Intuitional Justification.- 4. How to Supplement Mentalist Evidentialism: Phenomenological Principles are the Fundamental Epistemological Principles!.- Part II. Husserl as a Proponent of PCEJ.- 5. Husserl as a Moderate Foundationalist.- 6. The Nature and Systematic Role of Evidence: Husserl as a Proponent of Mentalist Evidentialism.- 7. Husserl's Conception of Experiential Justification.- 8. Husserl’s Universal Empiricism as a Moderate Rationalism.- 9. Husserl’s Phenomenological Intuitionism.- Part III. Transcendental Phenomenology as the Ultimate Science. 10. Transcendental Phenomenology as an Epistemological Project.- 11. New Ways to Transcendental Phenomenology.- 12. Transcendental Phenomenology as the Project of Ultimate Elucidation.- Part IV. The Phenomenological Foundations of the Individual Sciences. 13. Sources of Knowledge: The Correlational A Priori.- 14. The Phenomenological Foundations of Mathematics: Introducing a Phenomenological Intuitionism.- 15. Phenomenological Approaches to Physics.- Conclusion.- Index.