As a student new to the study of philosophy, I found the reading of writings such as those by MerleauPonty, Husserl and Heidegger to be complex. Fortunately, through narrative writings, I was able to explore these ways of thinking, being and knowing in my doctoral programme. Our Philosophy of Nursing Science course was structured with a robust reading list, Socratic discussion of philosophical ...

Burt Hopkins’ magnum opus details the conceptual origination of the logic of symbolic mathematics as investigated by Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein, with a special focus of the latter’s Die griechische Logistik und die Entstehung der Algebra that appeared in two parts in 1934 and 1936, and in English translation in 1968 as Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra. The main thesis of...

The founder of Phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, was one the great critics contemporary reality and its apparent scientific success. He lived paradoxes XX century: a century which most advanced in terms scientific-technical development and, at same time, bloodiest darkest human history: how is this contradiction possible? Husserl ´s answer that process cultural decline, had already been forged, si...

Philosophers, whether phenomenologically or analytically oriented, share an interest in the ontological status of the human self and its relation to the world. Followers of Husserl have attempted to formulate a conception of the self as an embodied consciousness, something between a contingent, empirical ego that is just one phenomenon within the world and a pure transcendental ego that constit...

By examining Dainton's account of the temporality of consciousness in the context of long-running debates about the specious present and time consciousness in both the Jamesian and the phenomenological traditions, I raise critical objections to his overlap model. Dainton's interpretations of Broad and Husserl are both insightful and problematic. In addition, there are unresolved problems in Dai...