Book contents
- Husserl and Mathematics
- Husserl and Mathematics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 From the Division of Labor to Besinnung
- Chapter 2 The Chimera of Logicism: Husserl’s Criticism of Frege
- Chapter 3 Clarifying the Goal of Modern Mathematics: Definiteness
- Chapter 4 Normativity of the Euclidean Ideal
- Chapter 5 Husserl’s Formal and Transcendental Logic (1929)
- Chapter 6 Gödel, Skolem, and the Crisis of the 1930s
- Chapter 7 Husserl’s Combination View of Mathematics
- Chapter 8 Kant and Husserl’s Critical View of Logic
- Epilogue A Look Ahead
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 1 - From the Division of Labor to Besinnung
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 July 2021
- Husserl and Mathematics
- Husserl and Mathematics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 From the Division of Labor to Besinnung
- Chapter 2 The Chimera of Logicism: Husserl’s Criticism of Frege
- Chapter 3 Clarifying the Goal of Modern Mathematics: Definiteness
- Chapter 4 Normativity of the Euclidean Ideal
- Chapter 5 Husserl’s Formal and Transcendental Logic (1929)
- Chapter 6 Gödel, Skolem, and the Crisis of the 1930s
- Chapter 7 Husserl’s Combination View of Mathematics
- Chapter 8 Kant and Husserl’s Critical View of Logic
- Epilogue A Look Ahead
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the introduction to Formal and Transcendental Logic (1929), Husserl defines a new methodological concept – or to put it more accurately, a family of concepts – related to the notion of Besinnung (sense-investigation). Besinnung is needed to reflect on phenomena within the teleological view of history that Husserl’s late assistant Eugen Fink called “intentional history.” According to this view, history comprises the accomplishments of individual people1 who work toward realizing certain goals.2 People mainly inherit their projects from their predecessors, but every now and then there are visionaries who redefine and reformulate these goals. Galileo is to Husserl a prime example of such a visionary. On Husserl’s construal Galileo redefined the goals of modern science with his vision of the mathematization of nature.
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- Husserl and Mathematics , pp. 16 - 42Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021