Husserl's logic

Abstract

Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) wrote extensively on logic and mathematics. This chapter reviews the historical progression of Husserl's thought on logic, primarily as it is represented in his publications. The chapter discusses the materials on logic and mathematics that are part of Husserl's Nachlass. Many of the ideas that are discussed in this chapter call for clarification, further analysis, or development. The secondary literature provides some of this, but there are also various controversies about Husserl's views on logic, and there are a number of problems of interpretation and emphasis. Some of the disagreements center on the different positions that Husserl already took at different stages of his career. It would be very much in the spirit of phenomenology to subject Husserl's ideas to the kind of criticism that might lead closer to the ideal of truth that governs all scientific investigations.