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- Contents
- Articles
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- In Review
- Making Sense of Husserl's Early Writings on Mathematics: Stefania Centrone, Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl
- Commentary on Some Themes in Stefania Centrone's Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl
- Mathematical Existence, Mathematical Fictions, Etiological Proofs and Other Matters: Replies to Mirja Hartimo and Robert Tragesser
- Stefania Centrone, Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl
- Reply to Mark van Atten: on Husserl-Computable Functions
Making Sense of Husserl's Early Writings on Mathematics: Stefania Centrone, Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl
from In Review
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Articles
- Documents
- In Review
- Making Sense of Husserl's Early Writings on Mathematics: Stefania Centrone, Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl
- Commentary on Some Themes in Stefania Centrone's Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl
- Mathematical Existence, Mathematical Fictions, Etiological Proofs and Other Matters: Replies to Mirja Hartimo and Robert Tragesser
- Stefania Centrone, Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl
- Reply to Mark van Atten: on Husserl-Computable Functions
Summary
Abstract: Few have managed to make sense of the largely fragmentary and obsolete nature of much of Edmund Husserl's writing prior to 1901, on the subject of mathematics. Stefania Centrone's book Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl is an exception. Centrone deciphers Husserl's early texts about mathematics and logic extremely accurately and carefully into lucid English, taking a thematic approach to Husserl's views. Here I briefly discuss the chapters of Centrone's book and then consider some of the more philosophical consequences of her work.
Keywords: Stefania Centrone; Edmund Husserl; phenomenology of mathematics
Edmund Husserl studied with Weierstrass and Kronecker in Berlin, wrote his doctoral dissertation on variation calculus, and was then a colleague of Cantor in Halle until he moved to Göttingen with Hilbert and Klein in 1901. Accordingly, much of Husserl's writing prior to 1901 is about mathematics, as Husserliana volumes XII, XXI and XXII especially testify. However, few have managed to make sense of these largely fragmentary and obsolete passages. Stefania Centrone's book Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl is an exception. Centrone deciphers Husserl's early texts about mathematics and logic extremely accurately and carefully into lucid English.
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- Publisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2013