Readings on Edmund Husserl’s Logical Investigations

✍ Scribed by J. N. Mohanty (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 223
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

I Edmund Husserl's Logische Untersuchungen is, by any standard and also by nearly common consent, a great philosophical work. Within the phenom­ enological movement, it is generally recognised that the breakthrough to pure phenomenology - not merely to eidetic phenomenology, but also to transcendental phenomenology - was first made in these investiga­ tions. But in the context of philosophy of logic and also of theory of know­ ledge in general, these investigations took decisive steps forward. Amongst their major achievements generally recognised are of course: the final death-blow to psychologism as a theory of logic in the Prolegomena, a new conception of analyticity which vastly improves upon Kant's, a theory of meaning which is many-sided in scope and widely ramified in its appli­ cations, a conception of pure logical grammar that eventually became epoch-making, a powerful restatement of the conception of truth in terms of 'evidence' and a theory of knowledge in terms of the dynamic movement from empty intention to graduated fulfillment. There are many other detailed arguments, counter-arguments, conceptual distinctions and phenomenolo­ gical descriptions which deserve the utmost attention, examination and assimilation on the part of any serious investigator. With the publication of J. N. Findlay's English translation of the Untersuchungen, it is expected that this work will find its proper place in the curriculum of the graduate programs in philosophy in the English­ speaking world.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-v
Editor’s Introduction....Pages 1-5
Review of Dr. E. Husserl’s Philosophy of Arithmetic ....Pages 6-21
Husserl and Frege: A New Look at their Relationship....Pages 22-32
A Reply to a Critic of my Refutation of Logical Psychologism....Pages 33-42
The Paradox of Logical Psychologism: Husserl’s Way Out....Pages 43-54
On the Question of Logical Method in Relation to Edmund Husserl’s Prolegomena to Pure Logic ....Pages 55-66
Husserl on the Apodictic Evidence of Ideal Laws....Pages 67-75
Husserl’s Thesis of the Ideality of Meanings....Pages 76-82
Husserl on Signification and Object....Pages 83-93
The Logic of Parts and Wholes in Husserl’s Investigations ....Pages 94-111
Outlines of a Theory of “Essentially Occasional Expressions”....Pages 112-127
Husserl’s Conception of a Purely Logical Grammar....Pages 128-136
Husserl’s Conception of “The Grammatical” and Contemporary Linguistics....Pages 137-161
On Husserl’s Approach to Necessary Truth....Pages 162-178
Husserl on Truth and Evidence....Pages 179-196
The Task and the Significance of the Logical Investigations ....Pages 197-215
Back Matter....Pages 216-219

✦ Subjects

Phenomenology