The STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI issue article summary

The summary of the selected article appears at the bottom of the page. In order to get back to the contents of the issue this article belongs to you have to access the link from the title. In order to see all the articles of the archive which have as author/co-author one of the authors mentioned below, you have to access the link from the author's name.

  
       
         
    STUDIA THEOLOGIA GRAECO-CATHOLICA VARADIENSIS - Issue no. 1 / 2002  
         
  Article:   ON THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF THE SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION (SOME EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS) / SUR UNE DIMENSION PHENOMENOLOGIQUE DE L’EXPLICATION SCIENTIFIQUE (QUELQUES CONSIDERATIONS EPISTEMOLOGIQUES) .

Authors:  MARCEL BODEA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The search for scientific understanding of the world has roots reaching back into Descartes’s work. The search for ‘phenomenological understanding’ of the world has roots reaching back into Descartes’ works too. At some point in that quest, at least by the time of Descartes, philosophers recognized that a fundamental distinction should be drawn between two kinds of knowledge. It has been said that phenomenology is an attempt to give a direct description of our experience as it is in itself without taking into account its psychological origin and its causal explanation. In reality the picture is not as dark as it may seem at first sight. To avoid serious confusion we must carefully distinguish between offering an scientific explanation for some fact and providing grounds for believing it to be the case.  
         
     
         
         
      Back to previous page