1st key note lecture Friday evening Dagfinn Fllesdal gave a lecture titled Transcendental Idealism and the

a priori in Husserl. Fllesdal posed that Husserl embraced the thought of his project as a 'transcendental idealism'. Husserl sought of this term not as being concerned with the accessibility of the world but as a description for his phenomenological method. This transcends best in his late philosophy which is concerned about the relation between science and what he famously called Lebenswelt. This 'liveworld' is always there, existing in advance for us, it is the "ground" of all praxis. To put it in other words Fllesdal concluded - it is the a priori for our scientific research. Now, the scientific world 'belongs' to the lifeworld. The concrete lifeworld, then, is the grounding soil of the 'scientifically true' world and at the same time encompasses it in its own universal concreteness. And because therefore, progress in scientific research would result in a different version of the lifeworld, the concept of Lebenswelt can only maintain the form of an relativized a priori. Fllesdal then posed the question if the status of the lifeworld is something which Husserl's late philosophy shared with the late Wittgenstein.