Science and the Life-World : Essays on Husserl's ‹I›Crisis of European Sciences‹/I›

Science, intentionality, and historical background / David Woodruff Smith -- The Lebenswelt in Husserl / Dagfinn Føllesdal -- The origin and significance of Husserl's notion of the Lebenswelt -- Ulrich Majer -- Husserl on the origins of geometry / Ian Hacking -- The crisis as philosophy of history / David Carr -- Science, history, and transcendental subjectivity in Husserl's Crisis / Michael Friedman -- Universality and spatial form / Rodolphe Gasché -- Husserl, history, and consciousness / Eva-Maria Engelen -- Science, philosophy, and the history of knowledge : Husserl's conception of a life-world and Sellars's manifest and scientific images / Michael Hampe -- On the historicity of scientific knowledge : Ludwik Fleck, Gaston Bachelard, Edmund Husserl / Hans-Jörg Rheinberger -- Foucault, Cavaillès, and Husserl on the historical epistemology of the sciences / David Hyder -- Concepts, facts, and sedimentation in experimental science / Friedrich Steinle.;This work is a collection of essays on Husserl's 'Crisis of European Sciences' by leading philosophers of science and scholars of Husserl. This book is a collection of essays on Husserl's Crisis of European Sciences by leading philosophers of science and scholars of Husserl. Published and ignored under the Nazi dictatorship, Husserl's last work has never received the attention its author's prominence demands. In the Crisis, Husserl considers the gap that has grown between the life-world of everyday human experience and the world of mathematical science. He argues that the two have become disconnected because we misunderstand our own scientific past-we confuse mathematical idealities with concrete reality and thereby undermine the validity of our immediate experience. The philosopher's foundational work in the theory of intentionality is relevant to contemporary discussions of qualia, naive science, and the fact-value distinction. The scholars included in this volume consider Husserl's diagnosis of this crisis and his proposed solution. Topics addressed include Husserl's late philosophy, the relation between scientific and everyday objects and worlds, the history of Greek and Galilean science, the philosophy of history, and Husserl's influence on Foucault. Annotation This collection of essays by prominent philosophers treats Husserl's last work, The Crisis of European Sciences, which deals with the relation of science to the world of everyday experience