Autism and transcendental phenomenology
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2024-08-27
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Despite 80 years of research the approach to autism remains an attempt to understand why autistic people do not receive the world correctly. Edmund Husserl’s critique of naturalism can be applied to the state of autism research, and the transcendental phenomenology he once initiated as a foundation for the sciences employed to overcome unexamined presuppositions in theorizing about it. Key to this is the transcendental perspective Husserl’s successors often
rejected. With new Husserl scholarship and recent publications from his Nachlass, a specific form of the transcendental reduction can reveal the two incompatible roads to the same destination: the world. In doing so, Husserl’s intended purpose for phenomenology is honored.
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Faculteit der Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappen