Making Sense of Husserl's Early Writings on Mathematics: Stefania Centrone, Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl

Few have managed to make sense of the largely fragmentary and obsolete nature of much of Edmund Husserl’s writing prior to 1901, on the subject of mathematics. Stefania Centrone’s book Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl is an exception. Centrone deciphers Husserl’s early texts about mathematics and logic extremely accurately and carefully into lucid English, taking a thematic approach to Husserl’s views. Here I briefly discuss the chapters of Centrone’s book and then consider some of the more philosophical consequences of her work.