The concept of phenomenon in Kant and Husserl

The concept of phenomenon, which originates from the ancient Greek word "phainomenon", has an important place in the thought of Kant and Husserl as it is an object of knowledge established in our minds or given to our consciousness. Kant, who thought that it was necessary to investigate what and how people can know before revealing various information, and therefore developed a transcendental philosophy that included a comprehensive critique of reason, described how appearance was established as a phenomenon with the help of sensibility and understanding. With "phenomenology", which he introduced as a method for philosophy and all sciences, Husserl explains how the phenomenon, which presents itself to us directly, is experienced by the body -which opens the intersubjective field with the presence of the other self and is bidirectional in terms of being both the organ of perception and the object of perception- and intentional consciousness,. has shown. Within the scope of this study, Kant's and Husserl's theories of knowledge were researched in the context of the basic issues they addressed and the concept of phenomenon, and as a result, the similarities and differences in these two systems of thought were revealed.