RT Journal Article
T1 Overcoming Positivism: Husserl and Wittgenstein
A1 González Castán, Óscar Lucas
AB In this paper I shall briefly analyze Husserl´s and Wittgenstein´s divergent reactions against the positivist stance on natural science and on the new cultural role that philosophy should play in relation to science. To a great extent, their philosophies can be considered as a departure from positivism, although for quite different reasons. I shall argue that Wittgenstein, in the Tractatus, took positivism as a starting point that he tried to overcome from within. This endeavour led him to defend some theses of a pragmatist flavour as well as a peculiar type of radical agnosticism on ontological and epistemological issues. Husserl, however, considered that positivism was a dead-end for philosophy. Positivism has beheaded philosophy as a consequence of advancing a reductive view of science. Phenomenology is the attempt to understand the genetic and subjective processes that have ended up in an objective and scientific image of the world.
PB Felix Meiner
SN 0342-8117
YR 2014
FD 2014-09-14
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/103978
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/103978
LA eng
NO González-Castán, Óscar L (2014). “Overcoming Positivism: Husserl and Wittgenstein”, Phänomenologische Forschungen, Jahrbuch 2014, Felix Meiner, pp. 13-58.
NO Este artículo fue escrito gracias al apoyo del Grupo de Investigación de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid GR35/10A
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 20 abr 2025