P. Kerszberg: ‘Natural Science and the Experience of Nature’

We began this course, and Husserl in a sense began his phenomenological project, with a concern over the “grounding” of the natural sciences. Citing extensively from Husserl’s The Crisis of European Sciences, Pierre Kerszberg’s article, “Natural Science and the Experience of Nature,” is an extended review of the ways in which the natural sciences have [...]

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Husserl, Phenomenology, and the Sciences

Class on 10 September … John began the course with a brief intellectual biography of Husserl. Husserl’s early work show evidence of the influence of mathematician Gottlob Frege and philospher Franz Brentano. From these two, respectively, he takes the ideas of sense (Sinn) and psychic data.

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