Nature’s Suite: Husserl’s Phenomenological Philosophy of the Physical Sciences

Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1
1. Husserl: Realist or Instrumentalist? 1
z. Laws and Theories 5
3. The Plan of This Study 8
Part One: Husserl\'s Phenomenological Philosophy of Science
i The Idea of Science in Husserl and the Tradition 13
i. The Classical Idea of Science 15
z. The Idea of Science in Husserl\'s Phenomenology 17
3. The Problem of Empirical Science: Locke 20
4. The Problem of Empirical Science: Husserl 26
5. The Unity of the Empirical Sciences 28
6. Explanation in the Empirical Sciences 31
7. The Laws of Empirical Science 34
8. Empirical Science as Science 35
9. The Idealization of the Idea of Science 36
io. Summary 38
a Husserl\'s Phenomenology and the Foundations of Science 40
i. Pure Logic as a Wissenschaftslehre 45
z. Regional Ontology 57
3. Transcendental Consciousness as the Ground of the Sciences 61
4. Phenomenology as the All-Embracing Foundational Science 72
Part Two: Evidence and the Positing of Existence in Husserl\'s Phenomenology
3 Truth, Evidence, and Existence in Husserl\'s Phenomenology 77
i. Knowledge, Evidence, and Truth 83
z. Evidence as an Ideal Possibility 91
3. The Fallibility of Occurrent Cases of Evidence 93
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4. Evidence and Justification 96
5. The Rational Indubitability of the Principle of Evidence  97
6. Summary and Transition  100
4 Evidence, Rationality, and Existence in Husserl\'s Phenomenology 102
i. Husserl\'s Theory of Rationality: Ideas I 103
a. The Strong Formulation and Philosophical Rationality 115
3. Rationality in Nontheoretical Contexts 118
4. Positive Scientific Rationality 121
Part Three: The Problem of Theoretical Existence
in Husserl\'s Philosophy of the Physical Sciences
5 Physical Things, Idealized Objects, and Theoretical Entities 129
i. The Physical Thing 133
z. Geometry and the Physical Thing 146
3. Geometry and Physical Science 151
6 Consciousness, Perception, and Existence 163
1. Perceptions and Existence 166
z. Consciousness and Existence 168
3. The \"Existence-Independence\" of Intentional Relations 180
4. The Ontological Status of the Noema 186
5. Summary 191
Conclusion 195
1. Husserl\'s \"Dogmatism\" 195
z. The \"Ambiguity\" of Husserl\'s Philosophy of Science 197
3. Husserl\'s \"Instrumentalism\" 198
4. Husserl\'s \"Provisional Instrumentalism\" 201
5. Summary and Prospect 206
Notes 209
Bibliography 231
Index 245