What Husserl's lifeworld (Lebenswelt) is — the pre-theoretical world of lived experience that science presupposes

How Husserl's crisis of European sciences argued — positivism lost touch with the meaning-giving lifeworld

Husserl critiqued positivism for neglecting the significance of the lived, meaning-rich world

What Husserl's phenomenological reduction does — suspends the natural attitude to examine pure consciousness

Husserl's phenomenological reduction suspends the natural attitude to study pure consciousness

What is the significance of the 'transcendental ego' in phenomenology as proposed by Edmund Husserl?

The 'transcendental ego' is the pure subject of consciousness in Husserl's phenomenology, foundational for understanding phenomena

What Husserl meant by 'intentionality' — consciousness is always consciousness OF something

Intentionality: consciousness inherently directed towards an object

What Heidegger means by 'thrownness' (Geworfenheit) — we find ourselves in a situation we didn't choose

Heidegger's 'thrownness' describes our existence as involuntarily situated in a world with pre-existing conditions

What embodied cognition claims — thinking depends on having a body, not just a brain

Embodied cognition posits that cognition arises from interactions between an organism and its environment