Approximations to a Phenomenological Realism: Beyond Correlation and Ontological Neutrality

Abstract

This article supports the thesis that phenomenology can implicate ontological realism. The article gives three steps to argue this: (1) review the arguments that affirm that phenomenology, being correlationist, is closer to idealism than to realism; (2) review the arguments that affirm that phenomenology when implementing epoché implies ontological neutrality; (3) building arguments to shows that phenomenology is closer to an ontological realism and, therefore, phenomenology is neither idealistic nor ontologically neutral.