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On Husserl’s Mathematical Apprenticeship and Philosophy of Mathematics

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Insight into the formative role that Edmund Husserl’s early training in mathematics played in the development of his ideas is fundamental to understanding his philosophy as a whole. Besides shedding light on the genesis of phenomenology, which began to take shape in Husserl’s reflections on the inability of the logic, psychology, mathematics and philosophy of his time to respond to certain onerous questions raised by his earliest attempts to secure radical foundations for arithmetic, understanding Husserl’s ideas about mathematics sheds needed light on a number of other dimensions of his thought that have puzzled and challenged philosophers in this century. For example, this is precisely where many of the clues are to be found that are needed to answer questions of a controversial nature about seemingly enigmatic aspects of his thought, among them questions regarding the nature and evolution of his views on psychologism, on Platonism, on realism, and the relationship between his formal and his transcendental logic.

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Hill, C.O. (2002). On Husserl’s Mathematical Apprenticeship and Philosophy of Mathematics. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Phenomenology World-Wide. Analecta Husserliana, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0473-2_6

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