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In this chapter genetic phenomenology is interpreted using the unifying formalism. Genetic phenomenology studies a priori rules governing changes in phenomenological structures. This can be understood in terms of the learning rule of Chap. 3. As background knowledge changes in virtue of the learning rule, a cascade of “genetic” changes occurs in other phenomenological structures (partial intentions, adumbrations, the constitution of an object, its horizons, etc.).
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For further references to the early literature on genetic phenomenology, see [101, p. 167].
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There are additional types of genetic process I will not consider here. First, Husserl sometimes refers to “active genesis” or “genetic logic.” In these cases he is emphasizing phenomenological changes brought about by explicit processes of judging, talking, reading, and thinking about objects. For example, as I learn about a painting in an art history class, my understanding of it changes. The way I now see the painting reflects a past history of discussions about the painting, a process in which active cognitions were “sedimented” in to my understanding of it. As noted in Chap. 2, these types of active process are being bracketed. Second, Husserl often refers to genetic processes as they apply to the ego, e.g. the “universal genesis of the ego” (CM, p. 75). These genetic processes refer to changes in a person’s habits, personality traits, and explicit self-understandings. These accrue and change according to their own laws, whereby the phenomenologist can work backwards from a person’s present self-understanding and personality to past experiences of various kind that have led to this present self-understanding.
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See, for example, APS p. 631, where Husserl catalogues 7 types of “explanatory phenomenology,” as well as note 2.
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Yoshimi, J. (2016). Genetic Phenomenology. In: Husserlian Phenomenology. SpringerBriefs in Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26698-5_9
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