Husserl’s Philosophy of Science and the Semantic Approach

Abstract

This paper presents some comparations and differences between Husserl’s thoughts about philosophy of science and the semantic view of scientific theories. This last conception affirms that empirical theories do not describe the world as it is, but that they represent it using models. However, according to Husserl, an essential part of a theory’s reconstruction is the mathematical description of its domain, that is, the world (or the part of the world) the theory intends to talk about but evoking its origin in the life-world.