Abstract

CASTRO, Fabio Caprio Leite de. Edmund Husserl’s anti-naturalism and the impossibility of a naturalized phenomenology. Conjectura: filos. e Educ. [online]. 2023, vol.28, e023027. ISSN 2178-4612.  https://doi.org/10.18226/21784612.v28.e023027.

The program of naturalization of phenomenology consists of adapting Husserlian transcendental phenomenology to a naturalized model. However, would naturalized phenomenology still be phenomenology, in the sense thought by Husserl? With the aim of offering an answer to this question, the article proposes an investigation into the context of the emergence of the idea and the interest in a naturalized phenomenology, with the theory of enaction (VARELA et al, 1991). This context puts us in contact with the program of naturalization of phenomenology (ROY et al., 1999), based on the possibility of its mathematical formalization. As Watchel (2022) has recently shown, both defenders and critics of the naturalization program have neglected important Husserl arguments, for example, about static and genetic phenomenology. We propose an analysis of Husserl’s anti-naturalism, based on three fundamental criticisms: (1) the lack of foundations of the naturalist model; (2) the naturalistic scientific reductionism and the naive natural orientation; (3) the effects of the mathematization of nature on technique, capable of covering up the existential dimension of the human being. Based on these three criticisms, we conclude that, for Husserl, naturalized phenomenology would be a contradiction.

Keywords : Phenomenology; Anti-naturalism; Natural sciences; Natural orientation; Technique.

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