Overview
- Presents a translation of Edmund Husserl’s Logik und allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, a collection of lectures on the philosophy of logic and science
- Answers many questions about the development of Husserl’s thought
- Sheds new light on many important issues in contemporary philosophy
Part of the book series: Husserliana: Edmund Husserl – Collected Works (HUCO, volume 15)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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^ Regarding Sections I-III of the lecture, compare Appendix I: For the 1910/11 Lecture. Concluding Remarks and Plans. (Editor’s note)
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^ 93 Compare Appendix VI, On the Content of the Theory of Forms, to Section II of the lecture course. (Editor’s note)
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255 The General Idea of the Theory of Science>
Keywords
- Husserl and Philosophy of logic
- Husserl and Philosophy of science
- Husserl and analytic philosophy
- Husserl and Philosophy of mathematics
- Husserl and Formal logic
- Husserl and Noetics
- Husserl and Theory of Meaning
- Husserl and Theory of Manifolds
- Husserl and Theory of Probability
- Husserl and Theory of Judgment
About this book
The stated subject of these lecture courses given by Husserlbetween 1910 and 1918is ‘reason, the word for the mental activities and accomplishments that govern knowledge, give it form and supply it with norms.’
They show their author still pursuing the course set out in the Logical Investigations up to the end of the second decade of the century and displaying utter consistency with stands that he began taking on meaning, analyticity, Platonism, manifolds, mathematics, psychologism, etc. in the 1890s. Thus, they undermine many idées reçues about the development of his thought. The centerpiece of this work is an exploration of the realm of meaning.
Moreover, they add new dimensions to standard discussions by taking readers back to the place where phenomenology and analytic philosophy diverged. They show that Husserl tangled long and hard with the very ideas that went into the making of the latter and offer a wealth of interesting insights into sense and meaning, theory of judgment, complete and incomplete meanings, states of affairs, extensional logic, the relationship between logic and mathematics, functions and arguments, propositional functions, quantification, existential generalization, the word ‘all,’ number theory, sets, modality, deductive theory, ideas that are still under discussion today.
Prepared for oral delivery in the classroom, they are refreshingly lively and spontaneous. They are clearer, more explicit, and readable than the books Husserl published during his lifetime.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Claire Ortiz Hill has always been an independent scholar. She holds a BA and an MA from the University of California, Riverside and a Maîtrise and Doctorat from the University of Paris, Sorbonne. Her research interests lie primarily in the fields of Husserl's philosophy of logic and mathematics, the Austro-German roots of twentieth-century philosophy, and related issues in Analytic philosophy. She has published: The Roots of Twentieth Century Philosophy in Husserl, Frege and Russell; Rethinking Identity and Metaphysics, On the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy; The Roots and Flowers of Evil in Baudelaire, Nietzsche and Hitler; Husserl or Frege, Meaning, Objectivity and Mathematics with G. Rosado Haddock, The Road Not Taken, On Husserl’s Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics with J. da Silva and over 60 papers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Logic and General Theory of Science
Authors: Edmund Husserl
Translated by: Claire Ortiz Hill
Series Title: Husserliana: Edmund Husserl – Collected Works
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14529-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14528-6Published: 08 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14531-6Published: 08 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14529-3Published: 01 October 2019
Series ISSN: 0923-4128
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: L, 437
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Logic, Philosophy of Science, Continental Philosophy