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Roman Ingarden (1893–1970) was a Polish phenomenologist, ontologist and aesthetician. A student of Edmund Husserl’s in both Göttingen and Freiburg, Ingarden was a realist phenomenologist who spent much of his career working against what he took to be Husserl’s turn to transcendental idealism. As preparatory work for narrowing down possible solutions to the realism/idealism problem, Ingarden developed ontological studies unmatched in scope and detail, distinguishing different kinds of dependen...