Book Description
This book contains a detailed study of the historical andsystematical origin of Edmund Husserl's views on meaning as manifestedin his most influential Logical Investigations (1900-01)and Ideas (1913), relating them both to Bernard Bolzano's theoryof the relationship between logical experiences and their objectivecontents (from his 1837 Theory of Science) and to HermannLotze's theory of ideas (from his 1874 Logic). The authorclarifies the basic concepts of Husserl's theory of meaning and showsthat it is Platonic (rather than Aristotelian) in spirit. Furthermore,he defends an `identificationalistic' interpretation of Husserl'scentral notion of `noematic X' and outlines a Husserlian contributionto the `externalism/internalism' debate in recent analytic philosophy.Primary audience: Philosophers of language, mind and logic witheither a phenomenological or an analytic background, Husserl scholars,historians of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy. ... Read more