Husserl and Mathematics

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-108-96501-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 326 g

Husserl and Mathematics explains the development of Husserl's phenomenological method in the context of his engagement in modern mathematics and its foundations. Drawing on his correspondence and other written sources, Mirja Hartimo details Husserl's knowledge of a wide range of perspectives on the foundations of mathematics, including those of Hilbert, Brouwer and Weyl, as well as his awareness of the new developments in the subject during the 1930s. Hartimo examines how Husserl's philosophical views responded to these changes, and offers a pluralistic and open-ended picture of Husserl's phenomenology of mathematics. Her study shows Husserl's phenomenology to be a method capable of both shedding light on and internally criticizing scientific practices and concepts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hartimo, Mirja

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. From the Division of Labor to Besinnung; 2. The Chimera of Logicism: Husserl's Criticism of Frege; 3. Clarifying the Goal of Modern Mathematics: Definiteness; 4. Normativity of the Euclidean Ideal; 5. Husserl's Formal and Transcendental Logic (1929); 6. Gödel, Skolem, and the Crisis of the 1930s; 7. Husserl's Combination View of Mathematics; 8. Kant and Husserl's Critical View of Logic; Epilogue: A Look Ahead.

Über Autor(innen)

Hartimo, Mirja
Mirja Hartimo is Senior Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She is co-editor of Phenomenology and the Transcendental (with Sara Heinämaa, and Timo Miettinen, 2014), and has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on Husserl, phenomenology, and the history and philosophy of mathematics.