Arguing for the compatibility of phenomenology and naturalism, this book also refashions each. The opening chapters begin with a methodological focus then contests some of the standard ways of understanding the relationship between phenomenological philosophy and empirical science, and between phenomenology and naturalism.

Jack Reynolds is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University. Other books of his include: Chronopathologies: The Politics of Time in Deleuze, Derrida, Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology (2012), Analytic Versus Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy (2010, with James Chase), Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity (2004), and Understanding Existentialism (2006).

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part I: Methodology and Metaphilosophy

Chapter 2: Phenomenology and Naturalism: A Hybrid and Heretical Proposal

Chapter 3: Phenomenology and Scientific Realism: Show down?

Chapter 4: Merleau-Ponty's Gordian Knot: Transcendental Phenomenology, Science and Naturalism

Part II: Situated Thought: Time, Body, Others

Chapter 5: Time

Chapter 6: Body

Chapter 7: Others