From egology to ecology

Abstract

In this article, I ask how we should approach environmental issues from an epistemological point of view. Indeed, the living world seems to escape either a naturalistic or a subjectivist perspective. Then, what it is to perceive and know one's environment? This implies rethinking the notion of environment beyond subjectivism and naturalism. I propose to criticise Husserl's egology using some arguments borrowed from the ecological theory of perception, and opposing egology with ecology, understood as a conception that takes as its starting point the relationship of a living being to its milieu, in the light of Watsuji.