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Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)

  • Logische Untersuchungen (Logical Investigations), Vol1-2 1900-1901

    Husserl, Edmund. Logical Investigations Volume 1. Translated by John Niemeyer Findlay. Routledge, 2000.
    Husserl, Edmund. Logical Investigations Volume 2.Translated by John Niemeyer Findlay. Routledge, 2000.
  • Ideen I 1913 (Ideal I 1913)

    Was translated to English and published 1931.
    Husserl, Edmund. Ideas: general introduction to pure phenomenology. Translated by W. R. B. Gibson. Macmillan, 1931.
  • Summary

    Husserl suggested that by moving away from the concept of common-sense could philosophy evolve becoming its own unique and reliable piece of science. By the introduction of phenomenology would hopefully help with that while also being a science of consciousness rather than following the empirical like others.
  • Summary 2

    Husserl was a philosopher who had a mathematical background, he was interested in developing a broad theory that every science which included mathematics can be devised as a system of inputs that are all connected by conclusions based on evidence and reasoning known as inferential relations. His believes that the best way to study these interconnected relations is to start with looking at the sentences that the speaker has given voice to.
  • Summary 3

    Giving voice to these sentences are classified as units of consciousness that the supposed speaker gives voice to in expressing their claim. The unit of consciousness are labeled intentional actions that are always representing something as something rather than nothing. Factual unity of all things with the conjunction of the state of things is one of the three modes of unity for the consciousness.
  • Summary 4

    With the proposal of transcendental phenomenology which is the recognition that the three modes of consciousness have a mutual connection with one another and a third mode.