Whose Birthday Is It? April 8, 2016

Edmund Husserl (1859)

Husserl was a German philosopher and thefounder of the phenomenological movement.His philosophy is a descriptive study ofconsciousness for the purpose of discoveringthe structure of experience—the laws by whichexperiences are had. Husserl concluded thatconsciousness has no life apart from theobjects it considers and, in his later work, moved toward idealismand denied that objects exist outside consciousness. Husserl hada major influence on what German philosopher? More…