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My thesis in the following pages is that the terms “realism” and “phenomenology” signify inseparable aspects of a single discipline. Their intrinsic correlation is revealed by the fact that the world must be an “object of awareness” and that human consciousness is primordi-ally “awareness of the world.” My aim is to clarify this correlation as residing in the intentional nature of consciousness and to show that its understanding leads to a realism that is one with phenomenology, and vice versa.
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For a more detailed account of the problem of the given, see Wild, John, “Phenomenology and Metaphysics,” in the Return to Reason (ed. by John Wild), Chicago, 1953.
For a detailed discussion of these “pervasive data” of experience, see Wild, John, “Phenomenology and Metaphysics,” in the Return to Reason (ed. by John Wild), Chicago, 1953.
For further consideration of these all-pervasive data as philosophical, not natural scientific, data, see loc. cit.
For further discussions of intentionality, see Francis Parker’s essay, pp. 158 ff., and Henry Veatch, pp. 179 ff. in The Return to Reason.
See below, p. 106, for a further reason why empirical psychology must fail of its object -consciousness.
See above, pp. 101–102. If reflection has thus shown the essential impossibility of a natural science of consciousness, the fact can no longer surprise us that there is no empirical psychology but only a congeries of speculative theories of mind, personality, and so forth.
Again see Parker’s essay, already cited in Note 4, above.
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Chapman, H.M. (1966). Realism and Phenomenology. In: Natanson, M. (eds) Essays in Phenomenology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3427-7_5
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