Husserl and Realism in Logic and Mathematics [Paperback]

Robert Tragesser aims to determine the conditions under which a realist ontology of mathematics and logic might be justified, taking Husserl as his starting point.Edmund Husserl discusses the question of whether the world is of our making or whether some form of realism is true. In this book Robert Tragesser sets out to determine the conditions under which a realist ontology of mathematics and logic might be justified, taking Husserl as his starting point.Edmund Husserl discusses the question of whether the world is of our making or whether some form of realism is true. In this book Robert Tragesser sets out to determine the conditions under which a realist ontology of mathematics and logic might be justified, taking Husserl as his starting point.Mathematics and logic present crucial cases in deciding whether the world is of our making or whether some form of realism is true. Edmund Husserl, who was initially a mathematician, discusses this general question extensively, but although his views influenced the Dutch intuitionists and were taken very seriously by G?del, they have not been widely appreciated among analytical philosophers. In this book Robert Tragesser sets out to determine the conditions under which a realist ontology of mathematics and logic might be justified, taking as his starting point Husserl's treatment of these metaphysical problems. He does not aim primarily at an exposition of Husserl's phenomenology, although many of the central claims of phenomenology are clarified here. Rather he exploits its ideas and methods to show how they can contribute to answering Michael Dummet's question 'Realism or Anti-Realism?'. In doing so he makes a challenging and provocative contribution to the debate.Editors' introduction; Preface; list of abbreviations; Introduction: the idea of Husserl's phenomenological foundation for logic; 1. On meaning and on the real; 2. From na?ve mathematical realism to the origin of intuition and the formal; 3. Noematic analysis; 4lƒ'