ABSTRACT
In preceding chapters we studied Husserl’s views in the core philosophical fields of logic, ontology, phenomenology, epistemology, and ethics, tracing their interconnections within Husserl’s system of philosophy. In this chapter we look back on Husserl’s work, on his overall philosophy. We consider the significance of Husserl’s system writ large, taking its place in the long course of philosophy since Plato. We then survey Husserl’s role in 20thcentury philosophy, in the two traditions called “continental” philosophy and “analytic” philosophy. Then we consider implications of Husserl’s results for more recent “analytic” phenomenology and philosophy of mind. In these respects, we assess what, from our perspective today, we should see as Husserl’s paramount contributions to philosophy.
