Did Georg Cantor influence Edmund Husserl?
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Did Georg Cantor influence Edmund Husserl?
zbMATH Open document ID: 0929.01017
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005099615326
author: Claire Ortiz Hill
published in: Synthese
publication date: 2000-01-27T00:00:00Z
review text: As part of her establishment of proper recognition in the philosophy of mathematics for Husserl, the authoress assesses the time from 1886 to 1900 when he and Cantor were both staff members at Halle University. Although very little documentary evidence of their contact survives, Cantor was a member of Husserl's Habilitation committee in 1891, and presumably they enjoyed valuable discussion of set theory. Cantor's naive use of (mental) abstraction from objects to form sets was refined by Husserl into a phenomenological conception much of his own making, focusing upon attention to objects. It became a Platonic idealism partly under Husserl's two other main influences at this time, the philosophers Franz Brentano and Hermann Lotze.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 00A30
zbMATH DE Number: 1320696
zbMATH Keywords: philosophy of arithmetic
zbMATH Keywords: philosophy of set theory
zbMATH Keywords: phenomenology
reviewed by: Ivor Grattan-Guinness
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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