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Edmund Husserl

By MarkMcArth1997

  • First Publication

    "Philosophy of Arithmetic" was Edmund Husserl's first published monogram, which compiled his mathematical, psychological and philosophical competences to attempt a psychological foundation for arithmetic. This received much criticism for it's underlying psychologism, by Frege. Husserl's subsequent response led to the development of the philosophical method for which he is now famous: Phenomology. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  • Phenomenology

    Husserl's first phenomological work was "Logical Investigations" which was published in 2 volumes. The first consisted of a forceful attack on psychologism, most likely due to Frege. The second volume consists of six descriptive-psychological and epistyemological investigations through which Husserl shows that he adheres to a version of platonism that he derived from Lotze and especially Bolanzo. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  • Ordinarius

    In 1916 Husserl became Rickert's successor as full professor (Ordinarius) in Freiburg/Breisgau, as such he worked on passive synthesis. Also, Husserl gave four lectures at University College, London on "Phenomenological Method and Phenomological Philosophy". Husserl received a call to go to Berlin, which he suprisingly rejected. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  • Continued Work

    Husserl died on April 27, 1938 in Freiburg. Upon his death the Fraciscan Herman Leo Von Breda rescued Husserl's manuscripts, totaling more than 40,000 pages and brought them to Belgium. This is where the first Husserl archive was founded, further archives are now in Freiburg, Cologne, Paris, New York and Pittsburg. Since 1950 the Husserl archives have are editing his collective works - Husserliana. So, Husserl is still influencing Philosophy to this day. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy