Mathematics and phenomenology: The correspondence between O. Becker and H. Weyl

Philosophia Mathematica 10 (2):130-202 (2002)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Recently discovered correspondence from Oskar Becker to Hermann Weyl sheds new light on Weyl's engagement with Husserlian transcendental phenomenology in 1918-1927. Here the last two of these letters, dated July and August, 1926, dealing with issues in the philosophy of mathematics are presented, together with background and a detailed commentary. The letters provide an instructive context for re-assessing the connection between intuitionism and phenomenology in Weyl's foundational thought, and for understanding Weyl's term ‘symbolic construction’ as marking his own considered position in the foundational controversy of the 1920s. In addition, they reveal Weyl's hitherto unknown objections to Becker's detailed attempt (Mathematische Existenz, 1927) to ground the transfinite phenomenologically.

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 101,960

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Hermann Weyl's intuitionistic mathematics.Dirk van Dalen - 1995 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 1 (2):145-169.
Hermann Weyl's Mathematics, Science and Phenomenology.Richard A. Feist - 1999 - Dissertation, The University of Western Ontario (Canada)
Hermann Weyl on Minkowskian Space–Time and Riemannian Geometry.Yvon Gauthier - 2005 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 19 (3):261 – 269.
The Constitution of Weyl’s Pure Infinitesimal World Geometry.C. D. McCoy - 2022 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 12 (1):189–208.

Analytics

Added to PP
2009-01-28

Downloads
204 (#124,084)

6 months
28 (#121,996)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author Profiles

Paolo Mancosu
University of California, Berkeley

Citations of this work

Hilbert’s Program.Richard Zach - 2012 - In Ed Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, CA: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Erich Kretschmann as a proto-logical-empiricist: Adventures and misadventures of the point-coincidence argument.Marco Giovanelli - 2013 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 44 (2):115-134.
Mathematizing phenomenology.Jeffrey Yoshimi - 2007 - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 6 (3):271-291.

View all 31 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

The phenomenological movement.Herbert Spiegelberg - 1965 - The Hague,: M. Nijhoff.
Mathematical Intuition: Phenomenology and Mathematical Knowledge.Richard Tieszen - 1989 - Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Über die Neue Grundlagenkrise der Mathematik.Hermann Weyl - 1957 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 22 (1):81-82.
Brouwer's Intuitionism.W. P. Van Stigt - 1993 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 183 (4):746-749.

View all 18 references / Add more references