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Name:
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl
Dates:
Born: April 8, 1859 in Prossnitz, Moravia
Died: April 27, 1938 in Freiburg, Germany
Specialization:
Phenomenology
Epistemology
Major Works:
Logical Investigations (1900)
Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy (1913)
Formal and Transcendental Logic (1929)
Cartesian Meditations (1931)
Biography:
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was a German philosopher who is generally associated with
the modern development of phenomenology (a term he coined) as he attempted to create out of
it a pure, non-empirical science. Husserl's focus was simply to study the nature of
consciousness and how a conscious person could be conscious of their own consciousness.
Thus, he criticized traditional attempts to understand the use of language through
experience, arguing that naturalism was of no value and that insight was the best method to
use here.
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