CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Davidaviciute, Rasa |
|---|---|
| Title | What Early Husserl Can Tell Us About Mathematical Intuition |
| Summary | The work of early Husserl occupies an uneasy place in the history of philosophy. His first published monograph, Philosophy of Arithmetic, is often perceived as an immature work of an amateur psychologist, which was rightly criticized by Frege. The main objective of my thesis is to demonstrate that the utter rejection of Husserl’s early project has been unjustified. More specifically, I argue that he anticipates both the contemporary definition and application of mathematical intuition. In order to establish this, I firstly show that Frege misinterpreted Husserl’s definition of the concept of number, and so his influential characterization of Husserl’s early thought may be misleading. I then proceed to the analysis of the definition and role of intuition in early Husserl’s philosophy of mathematics and show that it highly resembles the use of intuition in the work of Charles Parsons, who is credited as the flag-bearer of contemporary proponents of mathematical intuition. Finally I address the question whether Husserl’s use of intuition in Philosophy of Arithmetic can provide an answer to the access problem. |
| Supervisor | Bodnar, Istvan |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/davidaviciute_rasa.pdf |
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