Edmund Husserl

1859-1938 · German · Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Science

All consciousness is consciousness of something.

Born into a Jewish family in Moravia in 1859, Edmund Husserl arrived at philosophy through mathematics, driven by a question no mathematician could ignore: how can logical truths hold with absolute necessity, independent of what any mind thinks? His Logical Investigations (1900-01) demolished the view that logic merely describes psychological regularities. Logical laws are ideal; confusing them with facts about thinking collapses into relativism.

Topics Edmund Husserl addresses

• phenomenology
• intentionality
• noesis and noema
• the transcendental reduction
• the epoché
• eidetic reduction
• eidetic intuition
• the natural attitude
• the transcendental ego
• transcendental idealism
• constitution
• evidence and Evidenz
• apodicticity
• psychologism
• the autonomy of logic
• categorial intuition
• act-content-object structure
• signitive and intuitive givenness
• fulfillment
• inner time-consciousness
• retention and protention
• the absolute flow
• the living present
• the lived body and Leib

Converse with Edmund Husserl on Symposium. Every reply is grounded in Edmund Husserl's own writing and cites the page it came from. The corpus is public-domain text.