Brouwer, as never read by Husserl

Mark Van Atten

pp. 3-19

in: Juliette Kennedy, Paul-Gabriel Sandu (eds), History of logic, Synthese 137, 2003.

Abstract

Even though Husserl and Brouwer have never discussed each other's work, ideas from Husserl have been used to justify Brouwer's intuitionistic logic. I claim that a Husserlian reading of Brouwer can also serve to justify the existence of choice sequences as objects of pure mathematics. An outline of such a reading is given, and some objections are discussed.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund

Brouwer Luitzen Egbertus Jan