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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc González Castán, Óscar Lucas author 2014-09-14 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. González-Castán, Óscar L (2014). “Overcoming Positivism: Husserl and Wittgenstein”, Phänomenologische Forschungen, Jahrbuch 2014, Felix Meiner, pp. 13-58. 0342-8117 10.28937/1000107776 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/103978 2567-5494 https://doi.org/10.28937/1000107776 https://meiner.de/phanomenologische-forschungen-2014-13358.html https://meiner.de/catalog/product/view/id/13496/s/overcoming-positivism-husserl-and-wittgenstein/category/1206/?previd=13358 Overcoming Positivism: Husserl and Wittgenstein