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From the time his phenomenological method was fully developed, Husserl always distinguished between transcendental subjectivity and its empirical or “mundane” counterpart. In this, as in many other things, Husserl’s work was influenced by Kant and the neo-Kantians, who made a similar distinction. In this paper I want to examine this distinction, primarily in its Husserlian form, and consider some of its implications.
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Carr, D. (1997). On the Difference Between Transcendental and Empirical Subjectivity. In: Evans, J.C., Stufflebeam, R.S. (eds) To Work at the Foundations. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5436-9_8
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