ABSTRACT
A final discussion is offered of the reasons why transcendental phenomenology requires a notion of philosophy incompatible with the existence of specialized and autonomous philosophical disciplines, such as philosophy of science. To be sure, mathematical physics’ unique role among all other empirical sciences has a fundamentum in re and does not rest on any contingent feature of our intellectual history. The life-world is Husserl’s final way of characterizing the forgotten and pregiven horizon of the positive sciences. It is the world in its full concreteness, articulated along the aforementioned essential oppositions. To be sure, from the standpoint of Husserl’s philosophy, the philosophy of science cannot access any original philosophical problematics because it remains within the natural attitude. Husserl’s early reflection on the incompleteness of the empirical sciences must be understood, first and foremost, in light of this metaphysical consideration of the world.
