SIDONCHA, Urbano Mestre. The - possible - debate between reductive materialism and phenomenology. Estud. pesqui. psicol. []. 2008, 8, 2. ISSN 1808-4281.

One of the chief questions regarding the mind/body problem - we would say, regarding a hopeful approach to the mind/body problem - is the attempt, one must encourage, to bond reductive materialism and husserlian phenomenology. This is certainly not the path to a kind of connection that entails the exclusion of the specific character of the strategies involved, as Francisco Varela supposed, but a debate that finds in the difference between those two strategies its own potential. The central problem in this paper is thus to demonstrate that the debate between reductive materialism and phenomenology is not only possible, although those differences, but strictly necessary. Having this task accomplished, we will discuss in the last part of this brief essay the relation between Husserlian phenomenology and Francisco Varela’s Neurophenomenology.

: Reduction; Reductive materialism; Phenomenology; Husserl; Eliminativism.

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