Toward a phenomenological epistemology of mathematical logic

Manuel G. Isaac

pp. 863-874

in: Justine Jacot, Philip Pärnamets (eds), Games, interactive rationality, and learning, Synthese 195 (2), 2018.

Abstract

This paper deals with Husserl’s idea of pure logic as it is coined in the Logical Investigations (1900/1901). First, it exposes the formation of pure logic around a conception of completeness (Sect. 2); then, it presents intentionality as the keystone of such a structuring (Sect. 3); and finally, it provides a systematic reconstruction of pure logic from the semiotic standpoint of intentionality (Sect. 4). In this way, it establishes Husserlian pure logic as a phenomenological epistemology of mathematical logic.

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Husserl Edmund