Introduction to Logic and Theory of Knowledge: Lectures 1906/07

by Hussert, Edmund; Hill, Claire Ortiz

• ISBN13: 9781402067259
• ISBN10: 1402067259
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-04
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This course on logic and theory of knowledge fell exactly midway between the publication of the Logical Investigations in 1900-01 and Ideas I in 1913. It constitutes a summation and consolidation of Husserl's logico-scientific, epistemological, and epistemo-phenomenological investigations of the preceding years and an important step in the journey from the descriptivo-psychological elucidation of pure logic in the Logical Investigations to the transcendental phenomenology of the absolute consciousness of the objective correlates constituting themselves in its acts in Ideas I. In this course Husserl began developing his transcendental phenomenology as the genuine realization of what had only been realized in fragmentary form in the Logical Investigations.Husserl considered that in the courses that he gave at the University of Göttingen he had progressed well beyond the insights of the Logical Investigations. Once he exposed the objective theoretical scaffolding needed to keep philosophers from falling into the quagmires of psychologism and skepticism, he set out on his voyage of discovery of the world of the intentional consciousness and to introduce the phenomenological analyses of knowledge that were to yield the general concepts of knowledge needed to solve the most recalcitrant problems of theory of knowledge understood as the investigation of the thorny problems involving the relationship of the subjectivity of the knower to the objectivity of what is known.This translation appears at a time when philosophers in English-speaking countries have heartily embraced the thoughts of Husserl's German contemporary Gottlob Frege and his concerns. It is replete with insights into matters that many philosophers have been primed to appreciate out of enthusiasm for Frege's ideas. Among these are: anti-psychologism, meaning, the foundations of mathematics, logic, science, and knowledge, his questions about sets and classes, intensions, identity, calculating with concepts, perspicuity, and even his idealism.

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction	p. xi
The Idea of Pure Logic As a Formal Theory of Science
The Characterization of What Is Logical Taking the Exact Sciences as Point of Departure	p. 3
First Distinction Between Logic and Psychology	p. 3
The Idea of a Science of What Is Logical as That of the Essence of Science in General	p. 5
Science Aims for Perspicuous Foundations	p. 7
Presumptive Conviction and Substantiating Probability	p. 11
Constructing Indirect Substantiation as the Task of the Sciences	p. 13
All Substantiation Is Subject to a Law of Substantiation	p. 17
The Significance of Substantiation Forms in Making Science in General and a Theory of Science Possible	p. 22
All Scientific Methods That Are Not Themselves Substantiating Are Auxiliary Tools for Substantiating	p. 24
Logic as Normative Art of Judging and as the Theory of an Art	p. 26
Pure Logic as Theoretical Science	p. 33
The Formal Laws of Substantiation as Theoretical Truths	p. 33
The Supratemporality of the Proposition as Identically Ideal Meaning, Science as a System of Propositions	p. 35
Logic as Science of Ideal Propositions and Proposition Forms	p. 40
The Science of Meanings Is Not a Part of Psychology	p. 42
The Correlation of Theory of Meaning and Formal Ontology	p. 50
Fitting Formal Mathematics into the Theory of Science	p. 54
Mathematics and Logic as a Supply of Truths That Each Science Can Freely Use	p. 57
The Theory of Science's Self-referential Nature. The Ideal for the Constructing of Pure Logic	p. 62
The Natural Ordering of the Formal Disciplines	p. 66
The Theory of Manifolds as Science of Theory Forms	p. 76
Formal and Real Logic	p. 93
The Natural Sciences as Merely Relative Sciences of Being, Metaphysics as Ultimate Science of Being	p. 93
The A priori Metaphysics of Reality in General as Necessary Foundation of the Empirically Grounded Metaphysics of Actual Reality	p. 97
The Relationship of A priori Metaphysics to Logico-formal Ontology	p. 99
Formal Logic as Theory of Theory in General, Real Logic as Theory of Knowledge of Reality	p. 104
A priori Metaphysics as a Foundation for Logic in the Sense of the Theory of the Art of Scientific Knowledge	p. 110
Noetics, Theory of Knowledge, and Phenomenology
Noetics as Theory of Justification of Knowledge	p. 115
The Role of Subjectivity in the Sciences	p. 115
Formal Logic Is Not the Science of Subjective Sources of Justification	p. 122
Noetics as Investigation and Evaluation of Intellective Position-takings with Respect to Their Claims to Legitimacy	p. 127
Noetics in Relation to Kant's Critique of Reason	p. 132
The External, Morphological Treatment of Noetical Problems	p. 134
The Deeper Layers of Problems of Noetics and the Epistemological Problems	p. 137
Theory of Knowledge as First Philosophy	p. 155
The Position of Theory of Knowledge vis-a-vis the Logical Disciplines and Natural Sciences	p. 155
The Problem of the Relationship Between Theory of Knowledge and Psychology	p. 164
Epistemological Skepticism	p. 176
About the Possibility of Theory of Knowledge After Performing the Epoche	p. 189
The Radical Difference Between Epistemological and Psychological Orientations of Inquiry	p. 197
Phenomenology as Science of Pure Consciousness	p. 213
The Relationship Between Phenomenology and Theory of Knowledge	p. 213
On the Possibility of a Science of Pure Phenomena	p. 216
The Transcendent Object as Theme of Phenomenological Investigation of Essences	p. 226
The Independence of the Laws of Essence from Any Positing of Existence and the Only Genuine Sense of the A priori	p. 229
The Ideal of Absolute Rationality and Its Attainability by Way of Phenomenology	p. 232
The Meaning of Phenomenology for the A priori Disciplines and Psychology	p. 235
The Forms of Objectification
The Lower Forms of Objectification	p. 241
Concepts of Consciousness	p. 241
Time Consciousness and Constitution of Time	p. 250
The Higher Forms of Objectification	p. 273
The Main Types of Concrete Objectification and the Fundamental Contrasts Within the Sphere of Objectification as a Whole	p. 273
The Function of Identity	p. 277
The Difference Between Objects of Thought and Sensorial Objects, Forms of Thought and Sensorial Forms	p. 287
The Function of Universality	p. 291
Further Functions	p. 301
Existential States of Affairs	p. 306
The Phenomenological Theory of Mind	p. 322
The Phenomenological Elucidation of Natural Scientific Knowledge	p. 330
	p. 351
(to [section]1 and [section]2): Content of the Lectures on Logic and Theory of Knowledge 1906/07	p. 351
(to [section]1 and [section]2): Philosophy On the Relationship Between Science in the Usual Sense and Philosophy	p. 356
(to [section]8): Note to the Concept of Logic	p. 357
(to [section]22): Ultimate Particulars	p. 357
(to [section]24): A priori Ontology and A priori Metaphysics	p. 358
(to [section]30d ff.): Psychological and Phenomenological Subjectivity	p. 358
(to [section]31b and [section]32): The Completion of the Natural Sciences Through the Epistemological Elucidation of the Logical and Ontological Disciplines	p. 359
(to [section]33a): The Meaning of Skepticism for Theory of Knowledge	p. 361
(to [section]34b): The Presuppositionlessness of Theory of Knowledge. Not All Knowledge Is Burdened with the Problem of Transcendence	p. 362
(to [section]35d): Critical and Phenomenological Position-Takings	p. 364
(to [section]35d): External, Inner, and Phenomenological Perception	p. 365
(to Chapter 6): Phenomenology as Essence Analysis of the Consciousness. Its Relationship to the Other A priori Disciplines	p. 367
(to Chapter 6): Phenomenology and Psychology. Phenomenology and Theory of Knowledge. Phenomenological Description vis-a-vis Empirical Description	p. 376
(to [section]37b): On Phenomenology's Method and the Meaning of Its Scientific Intentions	p. 385
(Variation of 47b): Higher-Level Generalities. The Universal as Object and as Property	p. 386
(to [section]50a): The Objectivity of Knowledge. The Ideally Legitimated Fulfilment-Relationships	p. 389
(to [section]51d): On the Theory of Probabilities	p. 393
(to [section]51d): Memory's Attainment of Fulfilment	p. 394
	p. 397
Theory of Knowledge as an Absolute Theory of the Essence of Knowledge	p. 397
The Task of Theory of Knowledge	p. 404
Phenomenology	p. 407
A priori Ontology and Phenomenology	p. 428
Transcendental Phenomenology [left angle bracket]as the[right angle bracket] Science of Transcendental Subjectivity and of the Constitution of All Objectivity of Knowledge and Values in It	p. 431
The Difference Between Logical and Epistemological Clarification	p. 438
The Order of Levels of Categorial Theories and Their Mutual Dependency. The Task of a Systematic Construction of the Entire Formal Mathesis	p. 442
Draft of a Letter of September 28, 1906 to Hans Cornelius	p. 449
Personal Notes from September 25, 1906, November 4, 1907, and March 6, 1908	p. 453
Index	p. 455
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