Questions tagged [husserl]

Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (1859 – 1938) was a German philosopher associated with phenomenology.

The following are some sources for information about Husserl.

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Are there philosophic discussions of Husserl's dissertation?

Husserl wrote a doctoral thesis on calculus of variations. It does not seem to be available on the Göttinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum and so far as I have found the online collections of his works are only philosophical. Anyway I'd rather not read…
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Are Husserl and Heidegger's conceptions of finitude in any way similar?

Reading through Husserl's "Crisis of European Sciences" and "Vienna Lectures", I noticed he made frequent reference to the "infinite task" of the modern mathematical tradition kickstarted by Galileo. This task seems infinite in a few ways--namely…
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