Husserl and Mathematics

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

Husserl and Mathematics explains the development of Husserl's phenomenological method in the context of his engagement in modern mathematics and its foundations. It will be of special interest to historians of philosophy, phenomenologists, and philosophers of mathematics and of logic.

Foreword

Explores Husserl's view of phenomenology as a method by showing how Husserl applied it to the mathematics of his time.

Product details

• Authors: Mirja Hartimo, Mirja (University of Jyvaskyla) Hartimo, Hartimo Mirja
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2023
• EAN: 9781108965019
• ISBN: 978-1-108-96501-9
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, History of mathematics, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism