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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Authentic Concepts of Multiplicity, Unity and Whole Number
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Front Matter
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The Symbolic Number Concepts and the Logical Sources of Cardinal Arithmetic
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Supplementary Texts (1887–1901)
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
Husserl's work here provides an alternative model of what "conceptual analysis" should be - minus the "linguistic turn", but inclusive of language and linguistic meaning. In the process, he provides case after case of "Phenomenological Analysis" - fortunately unencumbered by that title - of the convincing type that made Husserl's life and thought a fountainhead of much of the most important philosophical work of the twentieth Century in Europe. Many Husserlian themes to be developed at length in later writings first emerge here: Abstraction, internal time consciousness, polythetic acts, acts of higher order ('founded' acts), Gestalt qualities and their role in knowledge, formalization (as opposed to generalization), essence analysis, and so forth.
This volume is a window on a period of rich and illuminating philosophical activity that has been rendered generally inaccessible by the supposed "revolution" attributed to "Analytic Philosophy" so-called. Careful exposition and critique is given to every serious alternative account of number and number relations available at the time. Husserl's extensive and trenchant criticisms of Gottlob Frege's theory of number and arithmetic reach far beyond those most commonly referred to in the literature on their views.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This translation is the crowning achievement of Dallas Willard’s monumental research into Husserl’s early philosophy … . The volume is hence a good starting point for English-speaking students from freshman to graduate level who wish to familiarise themselves with Husserl’s philosophy of mathematics … . Willard succeeds in creating a very readable English text, maintaining a good balance between correctly rendering difficult and ambiguous German terms and writing in a clear and easy way." (Carlo Ierna, Husserl Studies, Vol. 24, 2008)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Philosophy of Arithmetic
Book Subtitle: Psychological and Logical Investigations with Supplementary Texts from 1887–1901
Authors: Edmund Husserl
Series Title: Husserliana: Edmund Husserl – Collected Works
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0060-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1546-5Published: 30 September 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1603-5Published: 30 September 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0060-4Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0923-4128
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LXIV, 515
Additional Information: Originally published in German
Topics: Number Theory, Phenomenology, History of Mathematical Sciences, Modern Philosophy