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The Ambivalence of Husserl’s Early Logic: Between Austrian Semanticism and German IdealismHusserl Studies 40 (1): 45-65. 2024.Prolegomena to Pure Logic (1900) is the definitive statement of Husserl’s early logic. But what does it say that logic is? I argue that Husserl in the Prolegomena thinks logic is its own discipline, namely the “doctrine of science” (Wissenschaftslehre), but has two conflicting ideas of what that is. One idea—expressed by the book’s general argument, and which I call Husserl’s Austrian Semanticism about logic—is that the Wissenschaftslehre is the positive science explaining what science is (which…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Phenomenology |
20th Century Philosophy |
European Philosophy |
Classical Chinese Philosophy |