Il progetto di una scienza rigorosa dell’esperienza: le indicazioni husserliane contro il geometrismo morboso della psicologia

The Husserlian project aimed to provide a ground for a science of experience and the main lines of this work are already drawn in his phenomenological manifesto of 1911. This project took psychology as its focus with Husserl specifically trying to save psychology from the temptations of Naturalism in order to restore its very task: a rigorous analysis of psychological phenomena. Today, a century later, psychology seems to persist in its naturalistic tendencies and even its positivistic hostility to philosophical reflection leading to some paradoxical results that can be defined as “morbid geometrism”. However, the phenomenological proposal drawn by Husserl was well-received by many of the protagonists of the hard sciences who understood the scientific value and empirical extent of his project. Indeed, the topics covered by Husserl in his “Philosophy as a Rigorous Science” are still central concerns for current Psychology which aims to rethink its assumptions and free itself from those prejudices that have been chaining it to Naturalism.