Document Type

Article

Keywords

Objectivity, Philosophy of Science, Empirical Objects, Husserl, Heidegger, Kuhn

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Continental Philosophy | Philosophy of Science

Abstract

An exploration of the utility of a phenomenological style of philosophizing about nature called the analysis of horizons. The name refers to a banner of philosophical reflection practiced by many philosophers mostly of European origin who have been influenced by the Husserlian tradition, like Heidegger, de Waelhens, Gurwitsch, Merleau-Ponty, Luijpen, to mention but a few. To philosophize about science in a phenomenological vein, one must begin with a phenomenological description of the form of life of scientific research, because it is only within a form of life, that is, within a way of experiencing objects, that objects present themselves as real. Mathematical signs, diagrams, tables, symbolic calculi, however useful they may be within a scientific form of life, do not of themselves present us the real object of scientific research in so far as this is envisioned as research into nature.

Article Number

1001

Publication Date

1967

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