Biography edmund husserl

Austrian-German philosopher (–)

Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (HUUSS-url;^[14]HUUSS-ər-əl,^[15]German:[ˈɛtmʊntˈhʊsɐl];^[16] 8 April – 27 April ^[17]) was an Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician who established the school of phenomenology.

In his early work, he elaborated critiques of historicism and of psychologism in logic based on analyses of intentionality. In his mature work, he sought to develop a systematic foundational science based on the so-called phenomenological reduction.

Biography edmund husserl

Arguing that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge, Husserl redefined phenomenology as a transcendental-idealist philosophy. Husserl's thought profoundly influenced 20th-century philosophy, and he remains a notable figure in contemporary philosophy and beyond.

Husserl studied mathematics, taught by Karl Weierstrass and Leo Königsberger, and philosophy taught by Franz Brentano and Carl Stum