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This book is a collection of essays on Husserl's Crisis of European Sciences by leading philosophers of science and scholars of Husserl. Published and ignored under the Nazi dictatorship, Husserl's last work has never received the attention its author's prominence demands. In the Crisis, Husserl considers the gap that has grown between the "life-world" of everyday human experience and the world of mathematical science. He argues that the two have become disconnected because we misunderstand our own scientific past—we confuse mathematical idealities with concrete reality and thereby undermine the validity of our immediate experience. The philosopher's foundational work in the theory of intentionality is relevant to contemporary discussions of qualia, naive science, and the fact-value distinction. The scholars included in this volume consider Husserl's diagnosis of this "crisis" and his proposed solution. Topics addressed include Husserl's late philosophy, the relation between scientific and everyday objects and "worlds," the history of Greek and Galilean science, the philosophy of history, and Husserl's influence on Foucault.
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Science and the Life-World Science and the Life-World Essays on Husserl’s ‘Crisis of European Sciences’ Edited by David Hyder and Hans- Jörg Rheinberger Stanford University Press Stanford, California Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2010 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archivalquality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Science and the life-world : essays on Husserl’s Crisis of European sciences / edited by David Hyder and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8047-5604-4 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Husserl, Edmund, 1859–1938. Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phänomenologie. 2. Husserl, Edmund, 1859–1938—Influence. 3. Science— Philosophy. 4 . History—Philosophy. 5. Phenomenology. I. Hyder, David Jalal, 1954– II. Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg. B32 79.H93K74 2010 142 '.7—dc22 2009029815 Typeset by Westchester Book Group in 10.9/13 Adobe Garamond Contents Contributors vii Acknowledgements xi Introduction xiii David Hyder § 1 Science, Intentionality, and Historical Background 1 David Woodruff Smith § 2 The Lebenswelt in Husserl 27 Dagfinn Føllesdal § 3 The Origin and Significance of Husserl’s Notion of the Lebenswelt 46 Ulrich Majer §4 Husserl on the Origins of Geometry 64 Ian Hacking § 5 The Crisis as Philosophy of History 83 David Carr §6 Science, History, and Transcendental Subjectivity in Husserl’s Crisis 10 Michael Friedman 0 vi Contents §7 Universality and Spatial Form 116 Rodolphe Gasché § 8 Husserl, History, and Consciousness 136 Eva- Maria Engelen §9 Science, Philosophy, and the History of Knowledge: Husserl’s Conception of a Life-World and Sellars’s Manifest and Scientific Images 150 Michael Hampe § 10 On the Historicity of Scientific Knowledge: Ludwik Fleck, Gaston Bachelard, Edmund Husserl 164 Hans- Jörg Rheinberger § 11 Foucault, Cavaillès, and Husserl on the Historical Epistemology of the Sciences