Hubert Dreyfus - Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception (Part 4)

With growing interest in the role of the body in perception, and in the related question of the possibility and nature of non-conceptual content, Merleau-Ponty’s classic work, Phenomenology of Perception, has become increasingly relevant. We will read the book in order to understand and evaluate Merleau-Ponty’s arguments against what he calls empiricism (a sort of behaviorism) and intellectualism (cognitivism), as well as his positive account of what he calls motor intentionality — a kind of intentionality without conceptual content that, Merleau-Ponty argues, is the basic way human beings are embedded in the world.

Lecture 1-9: https://youtu.be/U-ZQoMh32Ck
Lecture 10-17: https://youtu.be/lrpKlv4NqOI
Lecture 18-24: https://youtu.be/DbdsZBvb3ls
Lecture 25: 00:00
Lecture 26: 01:20:12
Lecture 27: 02:41:55
Lecture 28: 04:02:29
Lecture 29: 05:24:09
Lecture 30: 06:44:46
Lecture 31: 07:53:21

Required text:

Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty: https://amzn.to/2DgBepP

The Current Relevance of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Embodiment by Hubert Dreyfus: https://ejap.louisiana.edu/EJAP/1996.spring/dreyfus.1996.spring.html