Husserl鈥檚 Crisis as a crisis of psychology
- 作者：Uljana Feest feest@mail.tu-berlin.de
- 关键词：Husserl ; Crisis of psychology ; Scientific philosophy ; Experimental psychology ; Inner perception ; Brentano ; Bü ; hler
- 刊名：Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C ; Biological and Biomedical Sciences
- 出版年：2012
- 期刊代码：113_13698486
- 类别：soc
- 出版时间：June, 2012
- 卷：43
- 期：2
- 页码：493-503
- 文件大小：247 K
摘要
This paper places Husserl鈥檚 mature work, The Crisis of the European Sciences, in the context of his engagement with鈥攁nd critique of鈥攅xperimental psychology at the time. I begin by showing (a) that Husserl accorded psychology a crucial role in his philosophy, i.e., that of providing a scientific analysis of subjectivity, and (b) that he viewed contemporary psychology鈥攄ue to its naturalism鈥攁s having failed to pursue this goal in the appropriate manner. I then provide an analysis of Husserl鈥檚 views about naturalism and scientific philosophy. Some central themes of the Crisis are traced back to Husserl鈥檚 earlier work and to his relationship with his teacher, Franz Brentano, with whom he disagreed about the status of 鈥渋nner perception鈥?as the proper scientific method for a phenomenological analysis. The paper then shows that Husserl was well aware of at least one publication about the crisis of psychology (B眉hler鈥檚 1927 book), and it teases out some aspects of the complicated relationship between Husserl and members of the W眉rzburg School of thought psychology: The latter had drawn on Husserl鈥檚 writings, but Husserl felt that they had misunderstood his central thesis. I conclude by placing Husserl鈥檚 work in the wider context of scientific, cultural, and political crisis-discourses at the time.