David Woodruff Smith

Edmund Husserl was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Starting with an overview of his life and works, and his place in twentieth-century philosophy, this book demonstrates Husserl's influence on philosophy of mind and language, on ontology and epistemology, and on philosophy of logic, mathematics and science.

The essays in this volume explore the full range of Husserl's work and reveal just how systematic his philosophy is. There are treatments of his most important contributions to phenomenology, intentionality and the philosophy of mind, epistemology, the philosophy of language, ontology, and mathematics. An underlying theme of the volume is a resi...