1st Edition

Phenomenology, Naturalism and Science A Hybrid and Heretical Proposal

By Jack Reynolds Copyright 2018
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Arguing for the compatibility of phenomenology and naturalism, this book also refashions each. The opening chapters begin with a methodological focus, which seeks to curb the "over-bidding" characteristic of both traditional transcendental phenomenology and scientific naturalism. Having thus opened up the possibility that the twain might meet, it is in the detailed chapters on matters where... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part I: Methodology and Metaphilosophy

Chapter 2: Phenomenology and Naturalism: A Hybrid and Heretical Proposal

Chapter 3: Phenomenology and Scientific Realism: Show Down?

Chapter 4: Merleau-Ponty’s Gordian Knot: Transcendental Phenomenology, Science and Naturalism

Part II: Situated Thought: Time, Body, Others

Chapter 5: Time

Chapter 6: Body

Chapter 7: Others

Biography

Jack Reynolds is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University. Other books of his include: Chronopathologies: The Politics of Time in Deleuze, Derrida, Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology (2012), Analytic Versus Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy (2010, with James Chase), Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity (2004), and Understanding Existentialism (2006).