Abstract
The paper examines the all too often neglected role of the Czech philosopher and mathematician Bernard Bolzano for Husserl’s work, from ca. 1893–1894 onwards. Husserl himself finds it important to stress in an appendix to chapter 10 of the Prolegomena to Pure Logic that his investigations are not “in any sense mere commentaries upon, or critically improved expositions of, Bolzano’s thought patterns”, but that they “have been crucially stimulated by Bolzano …”. The paper examines early Bolzano’s ideas on the ground-consequence relation, Bolzano’s logical universe as presented in his masterpiece, the monumental Wissenschaftslehre, the role of Hermann Lotze in making Husserl receptive for Bolzano and, finally, a lecture course on logic held by Husserl at the University of Halle in 1896, working out just what Husserl is taking, and not taking, from Bolzano.
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Notes
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Husserl LU Umarbeitung, 297.
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Stolz 1881.
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Husserl Erinnerungen an Franz Brentano, in Kraus 1919, 307–8.
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Bolzano 1851.
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Bolzano WL.
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Schumann 1977 , 463.
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Loc. cit.
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Bolzano 1810, II, § 2.
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Bolzano 1804.
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Bolzano 1810.
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Bolzano 1837 , §19.
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Bolzano 1841, 30–31.
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Bolzano 1837 , §221, II, 388.
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Bolzano 1837 , §320, III, 283.
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Bolzano 1837, §284, III, 58–59.
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Bolzano 1837, §285, III, 67.
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Lotze 1874.
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Apart from terminology, however, looking at Bolzano 1837 , §225, II, 399, where Bolzano discusses the notion of ‘circumstance [Umstand]’, this novelty appears possibly not so remarkable.
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Husserl 1896, 64.
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Husserl 1913, 37.
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Bolzano 1837 , III, 244f.
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Casari, E. (2017). Husserl and Bolzano. In: Centrone, S. (eds) Essays on Husserl's Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics. Synthese Library, vol 384. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1132-4_3
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