Phenomenology And Science: Confrontations And Convergences
by Jack Reynolds /
2016 / English / PDF
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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.
