title: "Menaced Rationality": Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on the Crisis and Promise of Science.
abstract: In this paper I provide an overview of Husserl's and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological critique of science, and suggest that such a critique is not only necessary in order to resolve an aporia that is otherwise apparently endemic to science, but that such a critique may also offer resources for productively addressing related philosophical difficulties, particularly the relationship between ideality and materiality/"nature." Following Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, I maintain that only a phenomenologically grounded science can be consistently "scientific."
authors.affiliation: DePaul University, USA. Electronic address: jsinger4@depaul.edu.
authors.forename: Jonathan D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Singer
mesh_terms: D010684:Philosophy; D012586:Science / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Husserl; Mathematics; Merleau-Ponty; Nature; Phenomenology; Physics; Rationality; Science