Discussion
Which of the following is not true regarding Husserl's idea of philosophy as rigorous science ?
Answer: D
The statement that is not true is Philosophy should copy the methods of exact sciences.
In his 1911 essay Philosophy as Rigorous Science, Husserl argues that philosophy must become a strict science, but in its own way. It must be free of presuppositions (A), a radically self-responsible and self-grounding inquiry (B), and it must reject naturalism, the attempt to treat consciousness and ideas as natural facts (C).
He did not want philosophy to imitate the natural sciences. Rigour, for Husserl, comes from the phenomenological study of essences given in consciousness, not from borrowing the experimental and mathematical methods of the exact sciences, which themselves rest on unexamined presuppositions.
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