Philosophy of Arithmetic: Psychological and Logical Investigations with Supplementary Texts from 1887-1901

by Edmund Husserl

Book Overview

In his first book, Philosophy of Arithmetic, Edmund Husserl provides a carefully worked out account of number as a categorial or formal feature of the objective world, and of arithmetic as a symbolic technique for mastering the infinite field of numbers for knowledge. It is a realist account of numbers and number relations that interweaves them into the basic structure of the universe and into our knowledge of reality. It provides an answer to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402016034
• ISBN13: 9781402016035
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 515 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"