ABSTRACT

Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) is widely regarded as the principal founder of phenomenology, one of the most important movements in twentieth-century philosophy. His work inspired subsequent figures such as Martin Heidegger, his most renowned pupil, as well as Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, all of whom engaged with and developed his insights in significant ways. His work on fundamental problems such as intentionality, consciousness, and subjectivity continues to animate philosophical research and argument.

The Husserlian Mind is an outstanding reference source to the full range of Husserl's philosophy. Forty chapters by a team of international contributors are divided into seven clear parts covering the following areas:

  • major works
  • phenomenological method
  • phenomenology of consciousness
  • epistemology
  • ethics and social and political philosophy
  • philosophy of science
  • metaphysics.

Contained in these sections are chapters on many of the key aspects of Husserl's thought, including intentionality, transcendental philosophy, reduction, perception, time, self and subjectivity, personhood, logic, psychology, ontology, and idealism.

Offering an unparalleled guide to the enormous range of his thought, The Husserlian Mind is essential reading for students and scholars of Husserl, phenomenology, and the history of twentieth-century philosophy. It will also be of interest to those in related fields in the humanities, social sciences, and psychology and the cognitive sciences.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part 1|68 pages

Major works

chapter 1|15 pages

The first breakthrough

Psychology, theory of knowledge, and phenomenology of meaning in Logical Investigations 1

chapter 2|16 pages

“If I am to call myself a philosopher”

Husserl’s critical phenomenology of reason in Ideas I

chapter 3|12 pages

Cartesian Meditations

Husserl’s pluralistic egology

chapter 4|10 pages

Formal and Transcendental Logic

Husserl’s most mature reflection on mathematics and logic

chapter 5|13 pages

Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences

The “teleological-historical way” into transcendental philosophy

part 2|82 pages

Phenomenological method

chapter 7|12 pages

The transcendental and the eidetic dimensions of Husserl’s phenomenology

A look at the early reception of Ideas I

chapter 10|11 pages

The genetic turn

Husserl’s path toward the concreteness of experience

part 3|125 pages

Phenomenology of consciousness

chapter 12|15 pages

Husserlian intentionality

chapter 14|11 pages

Back to basics

Husserl’s phenomenology of inner time-consciousness – what it does, and what it can do

chapter 15|13 pages

Normality as embodied space

The body as transcendental condition for experience

chapter 19|12 pages

Language

Its grounding in the world of experience and its function in the constitution of a common world

chapter 20|12 pages

Husserl on other minds

part 4|71 pages

Epistemology

chapter 24|12 pages

Sources of knowledge

On the variety and epistemic force of experiences

chapter 26|12 pages

Husserl on epistemic agency

part 5|78 pages

Ethics and social and political philosophy

chapter 27|12 pages

The battlefield of reason and feeling

Husserl on the history of philosophy in search of a phenomenological ethics

chapter 29|16 pages

Evaluative experience

Intentional complexity and moral teleology

chapter 30|14 pages

The person as a fragile project

On personhood and practical agency in Husserl *

chapter 31|12 pages

Husserl on social groups

part 6|48 pages

Philosophy of science

chapter 33|13 pages

Husserl’s theory of science

chapter 35|9 pages

Phenomenology and history

chapter 36|11 pages

Physics with a human face

Husserl and Weyl on realism, idealism, and the nature of the coordinate system

part 7|53 pages

Metaphysics

chapter 39|12 pages

From institution to critique

Husserl’s concept of teleology