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Edmund Husserl
The Philosopher and founder of Phenomenology was born today. Source:
Beyer, Christian. “Edmund Husserl.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1 Nov. 2016, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/husserl/. -
Philosophy of Arithmetic
Husserl published his first book, Philosophy of Arithmetic. This is where he started to develop the framework for his Philosophical method: phenomenology, which is the study of consciousness from the first-person viewpoint. Here's a description of Phenomenology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5geMLe5tbM Materials, Academic Educational. “Understanding Phenomenology.” YouTube, YouTube, 21 Nov. 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5geMLe5tbM. -
Logical Investigations Volume 1
Volume 1 of the 2 part book that Husserl published focused on the criticism and demarcation of psychologism. It has been praised as a big contributing factor to the downfall of psychologism. -
Logical Investigations Volume 2
Husserl's second volume focuses more on philosophical and epistemological explorations into ideas such as mereology, universalism, and intentionality. Psychologists everywhere deemed Husserl as someone who took an untraditional philosophical viewpoint. -
Co Founder of the Journal: Logos
After founding and co-editing the journal: Logos, Husserl gave 4 lectures on topics like Internal Time Consciousness. Later, a student of his Heidegger compiled and published the lectures into publication -
Edmund Husserl Died
The philosopher died today.