ABSTRACT
Adolf Bernard Philipp Reinach was born in Mainz on December 23, 1883. Reinach was a leading figure among Husserl’s early pupils who animated the circles of Munich and Gottingen and, together with Alexander Pfander and Johannes Daubert, was a leading figure of the so-called Phenomenological Realism. Reinach’s theory of judgment constitutes the epistemological framework of his phenomenology. This set of assumptions on epistemology establishes the ground of Reinach’s phenomenological philosophy. Reinach’s theory of judgment aims to provide the conceptual devices and to show the entities of which phenomenology avails itself in order for traditional logic to be grounded. The theory of social acts describes the a priori laws underlying social interaction, thanks to which legal structures and entities (e.g., claims and obligations) may arise in the world.
