The Phenomenological Realism of the Possible Worlds: The ‘A Priori’, Activity and Passivity of Consciousness, Phenomenology and Nature Papers and Debate of the Second International Conference Held by the International Husserl and Phenomenological Research Society New York, N. Y., September 4–9, 1972: Analecta Husserliana, cartea 3

Inaugural Lecture.- Imaginado Creatrix: The Creative versus the Constitutive Function of Man, and the Possible Worlds.- I / The A Prior.- Welcoming Remarks.- Life-world and A Priori in Husserl’s Later Thought.- The Transcendental A Priori in Husserl and Kant.- The Affective A Priori.- Special Contribution to the Debate: The Life-World and the A Priori — Opposites or Complementaries?.- Special Contribution to the Debate: The A Priori of Taste.- Consciousness and Action in Ingarden’s Thought.- The A Priori in Ingarden’s Theory of Meaning.- Discussion.- II / Activity and Passivity of Consciousness.- The Activity of Consciousness: Husserl and Bergson.- Problems of Continuity in the Perceptual Process.- The A Priori Moment of the Subject-Object Dialectic in Transcendental Phenomenology: The Relation-ship between A Priori and Ideality.- Special Contribution to the Debate: Passivity and Activity of Consciousness in Husserl.- III / Phenomenology and Nature.- Sense-Experience: A Stereoscopic View.- Freedom, Self-Reflection and Inter-subjectivity or Psychoanalysis and the Limits of the Phenomenological Method.- Discussion.- Constitution and Intentionality in Psychosis.- Scientific Information Function and Ingarden’s Theory of Forms in the Constitution of the Real World.- Discussion.- Complementary Essays.- Le platonisme de Husserl.- Art, Imagination, and the A Priori.