Logical Investigations

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• michael_dorfman · Jul 10, 2010 · Recommends

  I think the quality of advice you're getting on this thread is very mixed. Some of the books mentioned are absolutely great-- like "Being and Time", or Husserl's "Logical Investigations"-- but incredibly difficult to read unprepared. If you were ready to be reading them, you wouldn't be asking the question here. The two books you mention in the question (Common Sense and "On the Fourfold…

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• neel_k · Oct 26, 2018 · Recommends

  …with _themselves_, since they changed their minds over time). Finally, I myself am not a philosopher, so this list is necessarily somewhat idiosyncratic: - Edmund Husserl's Philosophy of Arithmetic and Logical Investigations. In the first, he studies what we mean by numbers, and comes to (in my view) a very modern cognitive-scientific/computer-scientific view (ie, that we have direct access only to very small numbers and…

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• vsthesquares · Jul 10, 2010 · Recommends

  Logical Investigations, Vols 1 & 2, by Edmund Husserl. Truly a great philosopher.

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• mykowebhn · Jul 2, 2024 · Recommends

  …been somewhat overshadowed by Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, which is a shame. For anyone interested in studying phenomenology, and specifically the philosophy of Husserl, I'd kindly recommend his works "Logical Investigations" and "Ideas".

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• jcmoscon · Jul 31, 2017 · Recommends

  We can gain "lots" of intelligence by reading good books that forces your intellect like Logical Investigations from Edmund Husselr: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/312739.Logical_Investiga...

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