Husserl and Mathematics

Mirja Hartimo is Senior Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She is co-editor of Phenomenology and the Transcendental (with Sara Heinämaa, and Timo Miettinen, 2014), and has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on Husserl, phenomenology, and the history and philosophy of mathematics.

'Edmund Husserl belongs to a lineage of philosophers for whom logic and mathematics were a primary source of philosophical reflection. In a jargon-free presentation, Hartimo skillfully guides us in the discovery of Husserl's attitude towards the mathematical practice of his time and insightfully analyzes the unfolding of his philosophical views on logic and mathematics as an attempt to make sense of this practice. This excellent book will benefit the general reader as well as the specialist.' Paolo Mancosu, University of California at Berkeley

• 1. From the Division of Labor to Besinnung; 2. The Chimera of Logicism: Husserl's Criticism of Frege; 3. Clarifying the Goal of Modern Mathematics: Definiteness; 4. Normativity of the Euclidean Ideal; 5. Husserl's Formal and Transcendental Logic (1929); 6. Gödel, Skolem, and the Crisis of the 1930s; 7. Husserl's Combination View of Mathematics; 8. Kant and Husserl's Critical View of Logic; Epilogue: A Look Ahead.