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Birth
Husserl is best known for launching phenomenology, the philosophical study of consciousness. Phenomenology studies the world as it is given to or “constituted by” consciousness. One can speak of the phenomenology of reading, of dancing, of mathematical investigation, in each case meaning an analysis or description of how that activity is experienced by the person engaging in it. One can also study objects, not just physical objects but also abstract objects like numbers and values. -
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Birth to death
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Logical Investigations
1900-1901 Husserl published his book, "Logical Investigation". The first volume contains a forceful attack against psychologism, the 2nd volume consists of six “descriptive-psychological” and “epistemological” investigations into (I) expression and meaning, (II) universals, (III) the formal ontology of parts and wholes, (IV) the “syntactical” and mereological structure of meaning, (V) the nature and structure of intentionality as well as (VI) the interrelation of truth, intuition and cognition. -
“Philosophy as Rigorous Science"
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Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy—First Book: General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology
Husserl considerably refined and modified his method into what he called “transcendental phenomenology”. This method has us focus on the essential structures that allow the objects naively taken for granted in the “natural attitude” to “constitute themselves” in consciousness.The resulting perspective on the realm of intentional consciousness is supposed to enable the phenomenologist to develop a radically unprejudiced justification of their basic views. -
Formal and Transcendental Logic
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Cartesian Meditations
This book is based on four lectures he gave at the Sorbonne, in the Amphithéatre Descartes on February 23 and 25, 1929. -
Death
He died at 5:45 a.m. after becoming bedridden from a fall the year prior Aug 10 1937 -
Husserliana
As of July 2013, 41 volumes have been published. He was known to rely on others to organize his “daily meditations,”.These would be gathered up and placed in binders for him later. In this way he published 7 books. These have all been published in Husserliana, along with the several layers of marginalia he added to his own copies. But these seven works are just the tip of an iceberg, a mere hint of the 40,000 pages of meditations, lecture notes, and other materials Husserl left behind. -
Citations
Beyer, Christian, "Edmund Husserl", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2018/entries/husserl/. Sandmeyer, Bob
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