What is Schutzian Phenomenology?

CARLOS BELVEDERE

Nueva York

Conferencia; Founding Meeting 2012; 2012

The International Alfred Schutz Circle for Phenomenology and Interpretive Social Science

My aims is to portrait Schutzian phenomenology in its full extent by systematically exposing its various dimensions. I will start presenting phenomenological and eidetic reductions as mere technical devices. Then I will show how, in Schutz, they are both interconnected with phenomenologycal psychology. After that, I will argue that phenomenological psychology leads to worldly phenomenology and I will explore its consequences for transcendental philosophy and the empirical sciences. I will conclude with some reflections on how worldly phenomenology finds absolute certainty in the lifeworld and not in the transcendental realm.