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Husserlian Phenomenology and Objectivism

Editorial Preface The text edited below is based on pp. 012147-73 in the Philosophical Papers of Dorion Cairns held by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, and bears only the title “Outline of lecture given at St. John’s, November 20, 1953”. The title above has been added on the basis of the content of the manuscript. How Cairns came to deliver this lecture at St. John’s University is unknown. The approach is similar to that taken in his famous New School lectures on intentionality, currently being prepared for publication by us under Cairns’ title of A Husserlian Account of Mental Life, and there is extensive similarity with the outline of the “Colgate paper” (Idem, pp. 01212425) of 1951 presented while Cairns was a visiting professor at Hamilton College. This text is significant not only as an early sketch of the approach later taken in the New School lectures but more importantly, because it culminates in a rare contrasting by Cairns of the transcendental phenomenology of Husserl with so-called realistic phenomenology and the metaphysical position Cairns prefers to call objectivism. Most of the text survives in the Cairns Nachlass in a mimeographed copy that was probably handed out at the lecture. There also exists a handwritten outline of the whole. About three-fourths of the way through the text, in the midst of the discussion of categorical intendings, the typewritten manuscript gives way to handwritten pages that, by the handwriting, by the recourse to the abbreviation “c’ness”, and by the preference of “things” to “objects”, appears a late rewriting, probably in the 1960s, that probably replaces the remainder of the typed text of 1953. But such a typed remainder, if it existed, has not been found in the Nachlass. Interestingly, the author was already using “intentive” but not yet “intentive to” in 1953. The occasion for such a probable reworking is not known, but there are indications (idem, pp. 012154 and 012155) that early parts of this MS were used in Round A, Second and Third Meetings, 2/15/55 and 3/1/55, of Cairns’ New School lectures on intentionality. In editing this text we have chiefly deleted the outline in which Cairns states what each topic will be before making a statement about it, but we have incorporated these topic statements on a few occasions and on a few others we have added words to connect or complete sentence fragments. There are signs passim that he went back over the whole text at least once, making small