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2Science and the Lebenswelt on Husserl’s Philosophy of SciencePhainomenon 33 (1): 25-50. 2022.I here present and discuss Husserl’s clarification of the genesis of modern empirical science, particularly its mathematical methods, as presented in his last work, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. Although Husserl’s analyses have as their goal to redirect science to the lifeworld and to reposition man and his immediate experiences at the foundation of the scientific project so as to overcome the “crisis” of science, I approach them from a different perspective. …Read more
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2The Transcendental Foundations of SciencePhainomenon 27 (1): 5-22. 2018.It is a philosophical naiveté to believe that the object of science is some ready-made world out there that the scientist, free of any preconceptions, simply stumbles upon. Of course, there is a world out there, given to us through the senses, but that must be intentionally elaborated to become a world for us and a possible object of scientific inquiry. The intentional constitution of the world of science supports and “justifies” a priori conceptions about the empirical world, even those of a lo…Read more
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2Science and the Lebenswelt on Husserl’s Philosophy of SciencePhainomenon 25 (1): 83-107. 2012.I present and discuss in this paper Husserl’s investigation of the genesis of the modem conception of empirical reality as carried out in his last work The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. The goal of Husserl’s genetic investigation was to uncover the rnany layers of constitution that frorn the life-world (the Lebenswelt) the modem scientific conception of Nature was originated and to point out the need to ground the scientific project of rnodemity in the life-world …Read more
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27Hobbes e a pandemia hipotética no Leviatã: entre a liberdade e a segurançaInvestigação Filosófica 11 (2): 05. 2020.O aparecimento do coronavírus fez ressurgir um antigo debate no âmbito da filosofia política: o debate entre liberdade e segurança. A maioria dos países atingidos precisou adotar medidas que restringiram a liberdade dos cidadãos para conter o avanço da doença. Esse artigo tem o objetivo de apresentar a posição do filósofo inglês, Thomas Hobbes exposta no _Leviatã_, para enfrentar esse problema. O texto está dividido em três partes. Em um primeiro momento, apresento a tese de Hobbes sobre a segur…Read more
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18A filosofia moral e política de Hobbes em duas tradições interpretativas do LeviatãInvestigação Filosófica 11 (1): 69. 2020.O objetivo do presente artigo é apresentar e confrontar os pressupostos de duas tradições interpretativas _Leviatã _de Thomas Hobbes. Pretendo demonstrar como, a partir dos pressupostos e dos critérios de interpretação de cada uma delas, teremos não apenas duas abordagens diversas, mas resultados e soluções distintas para problemas políticos e morais que o próprio Hobbes buscou solucionar com essa obra. Na primeira parte do artigo, apresentarei os aspectos inovadores da nova interpretação do _Le…Read more
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91Husserl on Geometry and Spatial RepresentationAxiomathes 22 (1): 5-30. 2012.Husserl left many unpublished drafts explaining (or trying to) his views on spatial representation and geometry, such as, particularly, those collected in the second part of Studien zur Arithmetik und Geometrie (Hua XXI), but no completely articulate work on the subject. In this paper, I put forward an interpretation of what those views might have been. Husserl, I claim, distinguished among different conceptions of space, the space of perception (constituted from sensorial data by intentionally …Read more
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16Structuralism and the Applicability of MathematicsGlobal Philosophy 20 (2-3): 229-253. 2010.In this paper I argue for the view that structuralism offers the best perspective for an acceptable account of the applicability of mathematics in the empirical sciences. Structuralism, as I understand it, is the view that mathematics is not the science of a particular type of objects, but of structural properties of arbitrary domains of entities, regardless of whether they are actually existing, merely presupposed or only intentionally intended.
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29Husserl and Leibniz: Notes on the Mathesis UniversalisIn Stefania Centrone (ed.), Essays on Husserl’s Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-24. 2017.The notion of mathesis universalis appears in many of Edmund Husserl’s works, where it corresponds essentially to “a universal a priori ontology”. This paper has two purposes; one, largely exegetical, of clarifying how Husserl elaborates on Leibniz’ concept of mathesis universalis and associated notions like symbolic thinking and symbolic knowledge filtering them through the lesson of the so called “bohemian Leibniz”, Bernard Bolzano; another, more properly philosophical, of examining the role t…Read more
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25Mirja Hartimo* Husserl and MathematicsPhilosophia Mathematica 30 (3): 396-414. 2022.1. INTRODUCTIONIt has been some time now since the philosophical community has learned to appreciate Husserl’s contribution to the philosophies of logic, mathematics, and science in general, despite still some prejudices and misinterpretations in certain academic circles incapable of reading Husserl beyond the incompetent and malicious review which Frege wrote in 1894 of his Philosophie der Arithmetik (PA) [1891/2003], hereafter Hua XII.Husserl’s philosophy of mathematics, in particular, has bee…Read more
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2The (reasonable) effectiveness of mathematics in empirical scienceDisputatio 7 (8). 2018.I discuss here the pragmatic problem in the philosophy of mathematics, that is, the applicability of mathematics, particularly in empirical science, in its many variants. My point of depart is that all sciences are formal, descriptions of formal-structural properties instantiated in their domain of interest regardless of their material specificity. It is, then, possible and methodologically justified as far as science is concerned to substitute scientific domains proper by whatever domains —math…Read more
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29Husserl's Phenomenology and Weyl's PredictivismSynthese 110 (2): 277-296. 1997.In this paper I discuss the version of predicative analysis put forward by Hermann Weyl in Das Kontinuum. I try to establish how much of the underlying motivation for Weyl's position may be due to his acceptance of a phenomenological philosophical perspective. More specifically, I analyze Weyl's philosophical ideas in connexion with the work of Husserl, in particular Logische Untersuchungen} and Ideen.I believe that this interpretation of Weyl can clarify the views on mathematical existence and …Read more
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128Husserl's two notions of completenessSynthese 125 (3). 2000.In this paper I discuss Husserl's solution of the problem of imaginary elements in mathematics as presented in the drafts for two lectures hegave in Göttingen in 1901 and other related texts of the same period,a problem that had occupied Husserl since the beginning of 1890, whenhe was planning a never published sequel to Philosophie der Arithmetik(1891). In order to solve the problem of imaginary entities Husserl introduced,independently of Hilbert, two notions of completeness (definiteness in H…Read more
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80The Axioms of Set TheoryAxiomathes 13 (2): 107-126. 2002.In this paper I argue for the view that the axioms of ZF are analytic truths of a particular concept of set. By this I mean that these axioms are true by virtue only of the meaning attached to this concept, and, moreover, can be derived from it. Although I assume that the object of ZF is a concept of set, I refrain from asserting either its independent existence, or its dependence on subjectivity. All I presuppose is that this concept is given to us with a certain sense as the objective focus of…Read more
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14The effectiveness of mathematics in empirical science [La efectividad de la matemática en las ciencias empíricas]Disputatio. Philosophical Research Bulletin 7 (8). 2018.I discuss here the pragmatic problem in the philosophy of mathematics, that is, the applicability of mathematics, particularly in empirical science, in its many variants. My point of depart is that all sciences are formal, descriptions of formal-structural properties instantiated in their domain of interest regardless of their material specificity. It is, then, possible and methodologically justified as far as science is concerned to substitute scientific domains proper by whatever domains —math…Read more
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Husserl and Weyl on the Constitution of SpaceIn Carlos Lobo & Julien Bernard (eds.), Weyl and the Problem of Space: From Science to Philosophy, Springer Verlag. 2019.
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25Phenomenology and the formal sciencesVeritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 47 (1): 61-69. 2002.Este artigo procura mostrar que as idéias filosóficas de Husserl não apenas influenciaram o trabalho de alguns dos maiores matemáticos do século XX, mas foram decisivas para aproximarem uma epistemologia das ciências formais de uma fenomenologia do significado.
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15Husserl and WeylIn Stefania Centrone (ed.), Essays on Husserl’s Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Verlag. 2017.In this paper, I carry out a comparative study of the philosophical views of Edmund Husserl and Hermann Weyl on issues such as mathematical existence and mathematical intuition, the validity of classical logic, the concept of logical definiteness, the nature of symbolic mathematics, the role of mathematics in empirical science, the relation of scientific theories with perception, space representation and the philosophy of geometry, and intentional constitution in general. My main goal is not sim…Read more
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32On Color: The Husserlian Material a PrioriIn Marcos Silva (ed.), How Colours Matter to Philosophy, Springer. 2017.In this paper I present and discuss Husserl’s concept of material a priori truth, particularly with respect to color-concepts, and show that Schlick’s criticism of Husserl’s notion is based on misunderstandings and misconceptions.
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42Mathematics and its Applications: A Transcendental-Idealist PerspectiveSpringer Verlag. 2017.This monograph offers a fresh perspective on the applicability of mathematics in science. It explores what mathematics must be so that its applications to the empirical world do not constitute a mystery. In the process, readers are presented with a new version of mathematical structuralism. The author details a philosophy of mathematics in which the problem of its applicability, particularly in physics, in all its forms can be explained and justified. Chapters cover: mathematics as a formal scie…Read more
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SpaceIn Jairo José da Silva (ed.), Mathematics and its Applications: A Transcendental-Idealist Perspective, Springer Verlag. 2017.
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LogicIn Jairo José da Silva (ed.), Mathematics and its Applications: A Transcendental-Idealist Perspective, Springer Verlag. 2017.
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ScienceIn Jairo José da Silva (ed.), Mathematics and its Applications: A Transcendental-Idealist Perspective, Springer Verlag. 2017.
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NumbersIn Jairo José da Silva (ed.), Mathematics and its Applications: A Transcendental-Idealist Perspective, Springer Verlag. 2017.
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IntroductionIn Jairo José da Silva (ed.), Mathematics and its Applications: A Transcendental-Idealist Perspective, Springer Verlag. 2017.
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StructuresIn Jairo José da Silva (ed.), Mathematics and its Applications: A Transcendental-Idealist Perspective, Springer Verlag. 2017.
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46The Analytic / Synthetic Dichotomy: Husserl and the Analytic TraditionIn Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock (ed.), Husserl as Analytic Philosopher, De Gruyter. pp. 35-54. 2016.
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42Husserl and Hilbert on completeness, stillSynthese 193 (6): 1925-1947. 2016.In the first year of the twentieth century, in Gottingen, Husserl delivered two talks dealing with a problem that proved central in his philosophical development, that of imaginary elements in mathematics. In order to solve this problem Husserl introduced a logical notion, called “definiteness”, and variants of it, that are somehow related, he claimed, to Hilbert’s notions of completeness. Many different interpretations of what precisely Husserl meant by this notion, and its relations with Hilbe…Read more
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40Husserl and Hilbert on completeness, stillSynthese 193 (6): 1925-1947. 2016.In the first year of the twentieth century, in Gottingen, Husserl delivered two talks dealing with a problem that proved central in his philosophical development, that of imaginary elements in mathematics. In order to solve this problem Husserl introduced a logical notion, called “definiteness”, and variants of it, that are somehow related, he claimed, to Hilbert’s notions of completeness. Many different interpretations of what precisely Husserl meant by this notion, and its relations with Hilbe…Read more
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23On the Principle of Excluded Middle DOI:10.5007/1808-1711.2011v15n2p333Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology 15 (2): 333-347. 2011.I carry out in this paper a philosophical analysis of the principle of excluded middle. This principle has been criticized, and sometimes rejected, on the charge that its validity depends on presuppositions that are not, some believe, universally obtainable; in particular, that any well-posed problem is solvable. My goal here is to show that, although excluded middle does indeed rest on certain presuppositions, they do not have the character of hypotheses that may or may not be true, or matters …Read more
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Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
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Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Philosophy of Mathematics |