Phenomenology as calculus?

Shigeto Nuki

pp. 1-14

in: Burt C. Hopkins (ed), Phenomenology, Berlin, Springer, 1999

Abstract

This paper will address the issue of the scope and legitimacy of the view "that Husserl's philosophy throughout its different stages and phases is informed by his belief in language as calculus."² Toward the end of investigating this issue, the conception of language as calculus is contrasted with the conception of language as a universal medium. This opposition was originally proposed by Jean van Heijenoort in his 1967 paper, "Logic as Language and Logic as Calculus," in order to classify two main streams of contemporary logic. Not long afterwards Jaako Hintikka extended its application from logic in the strict sense to language in general.³

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund

Hintikka Jaakko