Earlier this month, to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of
Edmund Husserl (born April 8, 1859; yesterday marks the anniversary of his death in 1938), the
Husserl Archives in Leuven, Belgium, hosted a
conference (audio files of the keynotes are available: here's
Robert Sokolowski on "Husserl on First Philosophy") in his honor. Husserl's
influence on philosophy is difficult to overstate, and continues to this day: as the founder of
phenomenology, his contributions to
logic, philosophy of
mathematics, psychology, philosophy of
mind, epistemology, existentialism, and
many other
areas of thought, has been
immense.
posted by ornate insect
on Apr 28, 2009 -
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