PHIL 474 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nachlass, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger
12 Jun 2018
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Husserl
Born in 1859
Early studies in mathematics
Comes from a strong scientific background
His PhD is in calculus
Why must you have a philosophical foundation for mathematics?
He tackles this question
Philosophy of Arithmetic - first published work
These are his early set of concerns
Professor Buckley will be linking this to phenomenology
He writes Philosophy of Arithmetic - was popular and produced discussion
Philosophy of mathematics is more popular today
What constitutes philosophy’s relationship to science?
How do numbers come to be?
Is the way we count a result of our empirical psychology?
This is a time when psychology is gaining ground
He wants to free thinking from the psychologist prejudice
The way we think is just constrained by this physical object (our brain)
Husserl wants to push against this idea
Thinking isn’t reducible to a biological function or to our empirical psychology - it’s something else
This is what he tries to get at in the logical investigation
He attacks psychology
In the logical investigations themselves, there are traces of the psychological tendencies
What is the relationship between thought and the way we are in the world?
Husserl is grasping at this in a different way
This is a way into not just Husserl but also Heidegger
The logical investigations is a success, but more work is to be done
In this period between 1900 and 1911, he explicitly develops the notion of phenomenological reduction to make sure
we’re not falling back into purely psychological assumptions
He’s trying to safeguard empirical science
This is logical investigations (1900 - 1907)
He later will talk about phenomenology as the method
PRS = Philosophy as a Rigorous Science (one of his works)
Husserl wants philosophy to be a science
He’s fighting against the fact that philosophy as the science of thinking should be reduced to psychology
He thinks it’s the fault of psychologists
But he also thinks that philosophy has failed to ground itself
He wants to ground philosophy
He will write about philosophy and its relationship to history...
He wrote a lot in his life but he didn’t publish a lot
Ideas: I + II + III - published after his death
Nachlass (German word) = the body of work he leaves behind after he dies
Those who publish the nachlass is significant
They are published with specific intentions
He wrote 15000 pages
He might not have published much because he’s really struggling with the phenomena
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Document Summary
Professor buckley will be linking this to phenomenology. He writes philosophy of arithmetic - was popular and produced discussion. This is a time when psychology is gaining ground. He wants to free thinking from the psychologist prejudice. The way we think is just constrained by this physical object (our brain) Thinking isn"t reducible to a biological function or to our empirical psychology - it"s something else. This is what he tries to get at in the logical investigation. In the logical investigations themselves, there are traces of the psychological tendencies. Husserl is grasping at this in a different way. This is a way into not just husserl but also heidegger. The logical investigations is a success, but more work is to be done. In this period between 1900 and 1911, he explicitly develops the notion of phenomenological reduction to make sure we"re not falling back into purely psychological assumptions. He later will talk about phenomenology as the method.
