What is Wrong with Husserl's Scientific Anti-Realism?
Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 55 (2):105-130 (2012)
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Harald A. Wiltsche
Linkoping University
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Abstract Not much scholarly work is needed in order to stumble across many passages where Edmund Husserl seems to advocate an anti-realist attitude towards the natural sciences. This tendency, however, is not well-received within the secondary literature. While some commentators criticize Husserl for his alleged scientific anti-realism, others argue that Husserl's position is much more realist than the first impression indicates. It is against this background that I want to argue for the following theses: a) The basic outlook of Husserl's epistemology as well as his more substantial comments regarding the natural sciences indeed result in a (sophisticated version of) scientific anti-realism which bears certain resemblances to Bas van Fraassen's constructive empiricism; b) This scientific anti-realism can be defended against the two most common objections raised in the secondary literature; c) It is only by means of this sophisticated version of scientific anti-realism that phenomenology can circumvent the problem of ?scientific objectivism?
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The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology.Edmund Husserl - 1970 - Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
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