Nature's Suit: Husserl's Phenomenological Philosophy of the Physical Sciences
* Acknowledgments * Abbreviations * Introduction * 1. Husserl: Realist or Instrumentalist? * 2. Laws and Theories * 3. The Plan of This Study * Part One: Husserl's Phenomenological Philosophy of Science * 1: The Idea of Science in Husserl and the Tradition * 1. The Classical Idea of Science * 2. The Idea of Science in Husserl's Phenomenology * 3. The Problem of Empirical Science: Locke * 4. The Problem of Empirical Science: Husserl * 5. The Unity of the Empirical Sciences * 6. Explanation in the Empirical Sciences * 7. The Laws of Empirical Science * 8. Empirical Science as Science * 9. The Idealization of the Idea of Science * 10. Summary * 2: Husserl's Phenomenology and the Foundations of Science * 1. Pure Logic as a Wissenschaftslehre * 2. Regional Ontology * 3. Transcendental Consciousness as the Ground of the Sciences * 4. Phenomenology as the All-Embracing Foundational Science * Part Two: Evidence and the Positing of Existence in Husserl's Phenomenology * 3: Truth, Evidence, and Existence in Husserl's Phenomenology * 1. Knowledge, Evidence, and Truth * 2. Evidence as an Ideal Possibility * 3. The Fallibility of Occurrent Cases of Evidence * 4. Evidence and Justification * 5. The Rational Indubitability of the Principle of Evidence * 6. Summary and Transition * 4: Evidence, Rationality, and Existence in Husserl's Phenomenology * 1. Husserl's Theory of Rationality: Ideas I * 2. The Strong Formulation and Philosophical Rationality * 3. Rationality in Nontheoretical Contexts * 4. Positive Scientific Rationality * Part Three: The Problem of Theoretical Existence in Husserl's Philosophy of the Physical Sciences * 5: Physical Things, Idealized Objects, and Theoretical Entities * 1. The Physical Thing * 2. Geometry and the Physical Thing * 3. Geometry and Physical Science * 6: Consciousness, Perception, and Existence * 1. Perceptions and Existence * 2. Consciousness and Existence * 3. The "Existence-Independence" of Intentional Relations * 4. The Ontological Status of the Noema * 5. Summary * Conclusion * 1. Husserl's "Dogmatism" * 2. The "Ambiguity" of Husserl's Philosophy of Science * 3. Husserl's "Instrumentalism" * 4. Husserl's "Provisional Instrumentalism" * 5. Summary and Prospect * Notes * Bibliography * Index