The Research Of Husserl’s Phenomenological Epistemology

If epistemology is primarily a study within the horizon of analytic philosophy,the attempt to bring Husserl’s theory into the study of contemporary epistemology is the main goal of this thesis.Husserl’s reflections on the problem of knowledge led to the development of his phenomenology.The first chapter focuses on two research tasks of epistemology:the justification of knowledge and the possibility of knowing.Through a transcendental answer to the question of the possibility of knowing,Husserl progressively proposes a phenomenological epistemology.The phenomenological theories developed by Husserl on this ground(theories of truth,theories of perception,theories of judgement,etc.)can provide new ideas for epistemological problems.The main part of the thesis is trying to give answers to those three debates:the debate on truth,the debate on skepticism and the debate on perceptual justification.On first debate,Husserl develops a two-layer structured view of truth,which can explain the difficulties in Tarskik’s formal theory of truth that caused by the conception of semantic category.Husserl thought that the formal truths should to be complemented by the intuition,since the life-world containing pre-giving as well as co-giving determines the complexity of the concept of semantic categories.Husserl’s view of truth provides a nonGodelian explanation for Tarski’s definition of truth.On the debate of skepticism,Husserl points out that only through a thoroughgoing enquiry can arrive the moral destination sought by the ancient sceptics.In confronting Descartes’ approach to universal doubt,Husserl points out that we should find other foundations to build our knowledge.When empiricists suspect that all we know can only be fragments,Husserl’s theory of intention and intuition completes the theory of knowing,and knowledge regains its certainty.Moreover,perceptual justification has been a central theme of epistemological research,in which the question of how perception acquires its justification power has been debated.The existing theories of perceptual justification all have their shortcomings,Husserl argues that it is category intuition that provides the assert power of perception.This theory also can respond to Davidson’s challenge to the problem of perceptual justification.The innovations of this paper therefore lie in the following:Firstly,the thesis focuses on main issues in Husserl’s epistemological,tries to giving an explanation in a systematic way.This research also is a kind of dialogical research which beyond the framework of Husserl’s phenomenological theory.Secondly,it broadens the field of contemporary epistemology by incorporating Husserl’s phenomenological theory.The thesis offers a new perspective on contemporary epistemology,allowing Husserl’s views on knowledge to participate in contemporary philosophical debates,providing a new source of ideas for contemporary philosophical debates as well as a research example for a non-analytical epistemological study.Finally,the essay is also innovative in terms of content.It revisits the task of Husserl’s epistemology and situates the question of truth within the development of deductive logic,providing an explanation for the impossibility of a formal definition of truth in deductive logic.The thesis also offers a reinterpretation of skepticism from an epistemological perspective,all of which provide certainty of knowledge.The focus is also on Husserl’s theory of perception,which provides phenomenological answers to the questions of perceptual justification and givenness.In addition to those important epistemological issues mentioned above,Husserl’s phenomenological theory offers new perspectives on the problem of what is given in perception,and on the theory of judgement,which also broadens the field of epistemological research.