An Unbridled Search for Logic: Four Studies of Husserl's Logical Investigations (1900–01)

Document Type

Dissertation

Publication Date

2021

Department

Philosophy

Abstract

The early Husserl wants to know what logic is, or what we should call ‘logic.’ He poses the question in a way that knowingly encompasses both what the 19th century (after Kant but before Frege) and the 20th century (since Frege) call ‘logic.’ But that he asks the question, and with such scope, has yet to be widely recognized. In particular, Husserl scholars still lack an overview of how Husserl’s early, explicitly logical inquiries, driven more by this single question than any worry about doctrinal consistency, does at least two things at once: probe what will later be called ‘pure phenomenology’ or ‘transcendental logic,’ and delimit logic as a positive yet mathematical discipline. With the aim of providing the neglected overview of this project, this dissertation takes the measure of

Husserl’s two-volume Logical Investigations (1900-01) in four studies.

Publisher

ProQuest Dissertations Publishing

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