Husserl and the Sciences: Selected Perspectives

by Richard A. Feist

Overview

Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) is one of the previous century's most important thinkers. Often regarded as the "Father of phenomenology," this collection of essays reveals that he is indeed much more than that. The breadth of Husserl's thought is considerable and much remains unexplored. An underlying theme of this volume is that Husserl is constantly returning to origins, revising his thought in the light of new knowledge offered by the sciences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780776630267
Publisher:	University of Ottawa Press
Publication date:	02/18/2004
Series:	Philosophica Series
Pages:	150
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Dr. Richard Feist has published articles on the history and philosophy of mathematics, the history and philosophy of science - especially the foundations of relativity theory, phenomenology, the process thought of Alfred North Whitehead, as well as in ethical theory and metaphysics. Dr. Feist has recently co-edited and published another collection of articles on Husserl, titled, Husserl and Stein. He is currently working on several projects: a forthcoming collection of articles on the relationship between science and religion, a text on the relationship between metaphysics and ethics, as well as a full-length study of the thought and life of Hermann Weyl. Dr. Feist has taught at the University of Lethbridge, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Ottawa, and is currently as assistant professor and acting vice-Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, St. Paul University in Ottawa.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	vii
	About the authors	ix
	Introduction	1
Part I	Phenomenology, Epistemology, and the Sciences
Chapter 1	Edmund Husserl and the History of Classical Foundationalism	11
Chapter 2	What Is Wrong with Naturalizing Epistemology? A Phenomenologist's Reply	41
Chapter 3	Erlauterungen: Logical Analysis vs. Phenomenological Descriptions	69
Part II	Phenomenology, Mathematics, and Physics
Chapter 4	Husserl and Hilbert on Geometry	101
Chapter 5	Husserl and the Theory of Multiplicities "Mannigfaltikeitslehre"	121
Chapter 6	Husserl's Legacy in the Philosophy of Mathematics: From Realism to Predicativism	129
Chapter 7	Husserl and Weyl: Phenomenology, Mathematics, and Physics	153
Chapter 8	Herman Weyl's Later Philosophical Views: His Divergence from Husserl	173
Part III	Phenomenology, the Sciences, and Community
Chapter 9	From the Lifeworld to the Exact Sciences and Back	189
Chapter 10	Husserl on the Communal Praxis of Science	213
	Index	227