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Overcoming Positivism: Husserl and Wittgenstein González Castán, Óscar Lucas 165.2 165.32 Science Truth Radical agnosticism Models Language grammar Historicism Ideality Humanidades Filosofía Teoría del conocimiento 72 Filosofía 7201 Filosofía del Conocimiento 7201.02 Epistemología 7205 Filosofía de la Ciencia Este artículo fue escrito gracias al apoyo del Grupo de Investigación de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid GR35/10A 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. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España) Depto. de Lógica y Filosofía Teórica TRUE pub 2024-05-14T08:05:16Z 2024-05-14T08:05:16Z 2014-09-14 journal article AM https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/103978 0342-8117 10.28937/1000107776 2567-5494 eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN/Plan Nacional de I+D+i 2008-2011/FFI 2010-15975 González-Castán, Óscar L (2014). “Overcoming Positivism: Husserl and Wittgenstein”, Phänomenologische Forschungen, Jahrbuch 2014, Felix Meiner, pp. 13-58. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access application/msword Felix Meiner