ABSTRACT
A proper sense of objectivity rejects both subjectivism and objectivism. Despite the mind-independence of objects and truth, they are known to us and accessed through subjectivity and its structures. So, we have neither subjectivism nor objectivism, but we do have the inseparable correlates of subjectivity and objectivity. Thus arises the question that originally drives Husserl’s philosophy: What is the relation of things objectively known to mind? The question regarding epistemological objectivity raises yet another issue of what it is to be an object and thereby introduces ontological considerations. This chapter explores the ontological and epistemological considerations in order to arrive at a complex and multi-layered notion of objectivity. It concludes that there are two levels of objectivity: putative and intersubjective. The latter is further distinguished into theoretical objectivity and cultural objectivity.
