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This book investigates the complex, sometimes fraught relationship
between phenomenology and the natural sciences. The contributors
attempt to subvert and complicate the divide that has historically
tended to characterize the relationship between the two fields.
Phenomenology has traditionally been understood as methodologically
distinct from scientific practice, and thus removed from any claim
that philosophy is strictly continuous with science. There is some
substance to this thinking, which has dominated consideration of
the relationship between phenomenology and science throughout the
twentieth century. However, there are also emerging trends within
both phenomenology and empirical science that complicate this too
stark opposition, and call for more systematic consideration of the
inter-relation between the two fields. These essays explore such
issues, either by directly examining meta-philosophical and
methodological matters, or by looking at particular topics that
seem to require the resources of each, including imagination,
cognition, temporality, affect, imagery, language, and perception.
This book investigates the complex, sometimes fraught relationship
between phenomenology and the natural sciences. The contributors
attempt to subvert and complicate the divide that has historically
tended to characterize the relationship between the two fields.
Phenomenology has traditionally been understood as methodologically
distinct from scientific practice, and thus removed from any claim
that philosophy is strictly continuous with science. There is some
substance to this thinking, which has dominated consideration of
the relationship between phenomenology and science throughout the
twentieth century. However, there are also emerging trends within
both phenomenology and empirical science that complicate this too
stark opposition, and call for more systematic consideration of the
inter-relation between the two fields. These essays explore such
issues, either by directly examining meta-philosophical and
methodological matters, or by looking at particular topics that
seem to require the resources of each, including imagination,
cognition, temporality, affect, imagery, language, and perception.
There has been a resurgence of interest in the problem of realism,
the idea that the world exists in the way it does independently of
the mind, within contemporary Continental philosophy. Many, if not
most, of those writing on the topic demonstrates attitudes that
range from mild skepticism to outright hostility. Richard Sebold
argues that the problem with this is that realism is correct and
that the question should then become: what happens to Continental
philosophy if it is committed to the denial of a true doctrine?
Sebold outlines the reasons why realism is superior to anti-realism
and shows how Continental philosophical arguments against realism
fail. Focusing on the work of four important philosophers, Kant,
Hegel, Nietzsche, and Husserl, all of who have had a profound
influence on more recent thinkers, he provides alternative ways of
interpreting their apparently anti-realist sentiments and
demonstrates that the insights of these Continental philosophers
are nevertheless valuable, despite their problematic metaphysical
beliefs.
There has been a resurgence of interest in the problem of realism,
the idea that the world exists in the way it does independently of
the mind, within contemporary Continental philosophy. Many, if not
most, of those writing on the topic demonstrates attitudes that
range from mild skepticism to outright hostility. Richard Sebold
argues that the problem with this is that realism is correct and
that the question should then become: what happens to Continental
philosophy if it is committed to the denial of a true doctrine?
Sebold outlines the reasons why realism is superior to anti-realism
and shows how Continental philosophical arguments against realism
fail. Focusing on the work of four important philosophers, Kant,
Hegel, Nietzsche, and Husserl, all of who have had a profound
influence on more recent thinkers, he provides alternative ways of
interpreting their apparently anti-realist sentiments and
demonstrates that the insights of these Continental philosophers
are nevertheless valuable, despite their problematic metaphysical
beliefs.
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