Phänomenologie und Realismus

Die Frage nach der Wirklichkeit im Streit zwischen Husserl und Ingarden

Vittorio De Palma

pp. 1-18

in: Husserl Studies 33 (1), 2017.

Abstract

I deal with the relation between phenomenology and realism while examining Ingarden’s critique towards Husserl. I exhibit the empiricist nucleus of Husserl’s phenomenology, according to which the real is what can be sensuously experienced. On this basis, I argue that Husserl’s phenomenology is not idealistic, in opposition to the realistic phenomenology, according to which reality consists in entities which cannot be sensuously experienced and are thus ideal. Finally I attempt to show that the idealistic elements of Husserl’s thinking do not originate from the transcendental turn, but from a remainder of psychologism that contradicts his empiricism.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund