「フッサールの動機の概念」(Philip J. Walsh)

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Husserl’s Concept of Motivation:
The Logical Investigations and Beyond
Philip J. Walsh, University of California at Irvine
 
Abstract
Husserl introduces a phenomenological concept called “motivation” early in the
First Investigation of his magnum opus ,theLogical Investigations. The importance
of this concept has been overlooked since Husserl passes over it rather quickly on
his way to an analysis of the meaningful nature of expression. I argue, however,
that motivation is essential to Husserl’s overall project, even if it is not essen-
tial for defining expression in the First Investigation. For Husserl, motivation is
a relation between mental acts whereby the content of one act make some fur-
ther meaningful content probable. I explicate the nature of this relation in terms
of “evidentiary weight” and differentiate it from Husserl’s notion of