Abstract: Having explored (in section 1 of this Conclusion) some of the issues raised by the relationship between transcendental and existential phenomenology, we turn now to consider a further set of issues concerning something that they have in common, namely their rejection of scientific realism. According to this philosophical position, not only is there a subject-independent world, which includes within it human subjects and their experiences; but also the empirical sciences have a privileged status in identifying and explaining what happens in this world. Because of this, commonsense or pre-scientific representations of the world may in principle he displaced by scientific ones, where the two are in conflict, and may themselves be regarded as ‘objects’ for scientific explanation.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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