Science and the life-world : essays on Husserl's Crisis of European sciences

283 Pages·2010·1.787 MB·English

by  Husserl, Edmund, Hyder, David Jalal, Husserl, Edmund, Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg

Science and the Life- World

Science and the Life-W orld
Essays on Husserl’s ‘Crisis of Eur o pe an Sciences’
Edited by David Hyder and
Hans- Jörg Rheinberger
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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.
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1. Husserl, Edmund, 1859–1938. Krisis der europäischen
Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phänomenologie.
2. Husserl, Edmund, 1859–1938—Infl uence. 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 Th e Lebenswelt in Husserl 27
Dagfi nn Føllesdal
§ 3 Th e Origin and Signifi cance of Husserl’s Notion
of the Lebenswelt 46
Ulrich Majer
§ 4 Husserl on the Origins of Geometry 64
Ian Hacking
§ 5 Th e Crisis as Philosophy of History 83
David Carr
§ 6 Science, History, and Transcendental Subjectivity
in Husserl’s Crisis 10 0
Michael Friedman
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§ 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-W orld and Sellars’s
Manifest and Scientifi c Images 150
Michael Hampe
§ 10 On the Historicity of Scientifi c Knowledge: Ludwik
Fleck, Gaston Bachelard, Edmund Husserl 164
Hans- Jörg Rheinberger
§ 11 Foucault, Cavaillès, and Husserl on the
Historical Epistemology of the Sciences 177
David Hyder
§ 12 Concepts, Facts, and Sedimentation in
Experimental Science 199
Friedrich Steinle
Notes 217
Works by Husserl 229
General Bibliography 233
Index 241
Contributors
David Carr (Ph.D. Yale, 1966) has taught at Yale, the University of
Ottawa (Canada), and, since 1991, at Emory University, where he was
department chair and is now Charles Howard Candler Professor. He is
the author of Phenomenology and the Problem of History (1974), Time,
Narrative and History (1986), Interpreting Husserl (1987), and Th e Para-
dox of Subjectivity (1999).
Eva- Maria Engelen is currently working in an interdisciplinary re-
search project on consciousness at the Berlin-B randenburgische Akade-
mie der Wissenschaften in Berlin and teaching at the University of Kon-
stanz, Germany. She has several publications in the history of philosophy
as well as in the philosophy of language, epistemology, and the theory of
emotions. Her major publications are Zeit, Zahl und Bild. Studien zur
Verbindung von Philosophie und Wissenschaft bei Abbo von Fleury (1993),
Das Feststehende bestimmt d as Mögliche (1999), Erkenntnis und Liebe
(2003), Descartes (2005) and Gefühle (2007).
Dagfi nn Føllesdal, C.I. Lewis Professor of Philosophy, Stanford Uni-
versity, studied science and mathematics in Oslo and Göttingen (1950–
57), philosophy at Harvard (Ph.D., Harvard, 1961), then taught at
Harvard and later at Oslo (1967– 99) and Stanford (1966– present). His
publications include Husserl und Frege (1958), Referential Opacity and
Modal Logic (2004), and other books and articles in philosophy of lan-
guage, philosophy of science, and on contemporary continental philoso-
phy. He was editor of Th e Journal of Symbolic Logic from 1970 to 1982.
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viii Contributors
Michael Friedman is currently Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor
of Humanities at Stanford University. His publications include Founda-
tions of Space-T ime Th eories: Relativistic Physics and Philosophy of Science
(1983), Kant and the Exact Sciences (1992), Reconsidering Logical Positivism
(1999), A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger (2000), and
Dynamics of Reason (2001).
Rodolphe Gasché is Eugenio Donato Chair of Comparative Literature
and SUNY Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York
at Buff alo. He studied philosophy and comparative literature in Munich,
Berlin, and Paris. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the
Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). His interests concern nineteenth- and
twentieth- century French literature, critical theory, and its relation to con-
tinental philosophy since early romanticism. His publications include
Die hybride Wissenschaft (1973), Th e Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the
Philosophy of Refl ection (1986), Inventions of Diff erence: On Jacques Der-
rida (1994), Th e Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant’s Aesthetics (2003), and Eu-
rope, or Th e Infi nite Task: A Study of a Philosophical Concept (2009).
Ian Hacking is professor emeritus at the Collège de France and Univer-
sity of Toronto. His books include, on probability ideas, Th e Emergence of
Probability (1975) and Th e Taming of Chance (1990); on mental disorders,
Rewriting the Soul (1995) and Mad Travelers (1998); on questions of general
interest, Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy? (1975) and Th e Social
Construction of What? (1999); and on experimental science, Representing
and Intervening (1983). His collection of papers, Historical Ontology (2002),
suggests the types of philosophical topics in which he is interested.
Michael Hampe is professor of philosophy at the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology Zu rich. He works on the history of early modern philoso-
phy (Hobbes, Hume and Spinoza), the history of twentieth- century
metaphysics (Whitehead, Dewey, and Sellars) and on problems of the
philosophy of biology and psychology. His latest books are Erkenntnis
und Praxis. Zur Philosophie des Pragmatismus (2006), and Eine kleine
Geschichte des Naturgesetzbegriff s (2007).
David Hyder is associate professor of philosophy at the University of
Ottawa. He studied philosophy at Yale, Toronto, and Göttingen, was a post-
doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,
Contributors ix
and was later assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Kon-
stanz, where he did his habilitation on Kant and Helmholtz. He is the author
of Th e Mechanics of Meaning (2002) and Th e Determinate World (2009).
Ulrich Majer is professor at the Philosophisches Seminar of the Uni-
versity of Göttingen. He is general editor of David Hilbert’s Lectures on
the Foundations of Mathematics and Physics, 1891– 1933 of which have ap-
peared David Hilbert’s Lectures on the Foundations of Geometry, 1891–1 902
(Springer 2004), and Relativity, Quantum Th eory and Epistemology, 1915–
1927 (Springer 2009).
Hans- Jörg Rheinberger studied philosophy and biology in Tübingen
and Berlin. Since 1997, he has been director at the Max Planck Institute
for the History of Science in Berlin. He has published numerous articles
on molecular biology and the history of science, in part icu l ar the history
and epistemology of experimentation. Among his books are Toward a His-
tory of Epistemic Th ings: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube (1997), Itera-
tionen (2005), Epistemologie des Konkreten (2006), and Historische Episte-
mologie zur Einführung (2007).
David Woodruff Smith is associate professor at the University of Cali-
fornia. He specializes in phenomenology and ontology, with an eye to
philosophy of mind and language and history of twentieth-c entury phi-
losophy. His books include Husserl (2007), Mind World (2004), Th e Circle
of Acquaintance (1989), and Husserl and Intentionality (1982, coauthored
with Ronald McIntyre). He is the editor of Phenomenology and Philosophy
of Mind (2005, coedited with Amie L. Th om asson) and Th e Cambridge
Companion to Husserl (1995, coedited with Barry Smith).
Friedrich Steinle is professor of history of science and technology and
director at the Interdisciplinary Center of Science and Technology Stud-
ies: Normative and Historical Perspectives at the University of Wup-
pertal, Germany. His research interests concern the history and phi-
losophy of science, with a special focus on experiment, and case studies
of seventeenth- to nineteenth- century physical science. His books in-
clude Newtons Manuskript ‘De gravitatione’ (1991) and Explorative Experi-
mente: Ampère, Faraday und die Ursprünge der Elektrodynamik (2005). He
is coeditor of Revisiting Discovery and Justifi cation: Historical and Philo-
sophical Perspectives on the Context Distinction (2006, with J. Schickore).