Ayer on Frege and Russell: Section 1

oh my god, make it stop MAKE IT FUCKING STOP

Do i DEAR  to say. in here, that next im going to Wittgenstein ????

wow Ayer gets Husserl completely backward! A large part of Husserl's Logical Investigations is devoted to destroying psychologism, that is, against the notion that mathematical and logical truths were psychological / subjective processes.

Actually, Husserl did hold a form of psychologism, in "The Philosophy of Arithmetic". This is the work that Frege must have criticized, and which is something that might have influenced Husserl to later reject such a view.

Theophilosxxv (and Antwn4) -- that's true, but c'mon, Husserl devotes an entire volume of his LOGICAL Investigations as a critique of psychologism, and many argue that Husserl had already changed his mind about psychologism a little under a year before printing phi. of arithmetic.

Personally, I see Husserl's Experience and Judgment and his unfinished Work 'Crisis'....and heck...most of his later works as head and shoulders above anything Frege and all of analytic philosophy combined ever did

Hi emblemOFbeing.

Ayer is actually correct about Husserl.Husserl's first work Die Philosophie der Arithmetik (1891) contrasts harply with his latter work Prolegomena to a Pure Logic (1900), the first volume of his Logical Investigations, in which he systematically attemped to refute psychologism as a theory of logic and develop a concept of pure logic. The contrast is as sharp as an axe with the psyhologism found in his 1891 work.

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By the way, Frege wrote a devastating critic in 1894 on Husserl's psychologism (G. Frege 'Review of Dr. E. Husserl's Philosophy of Arithmetic,' trans. E. Kluge, Mind, 81, 1972, pp. 321-337). Also, see Dummett 1981, p. 81-203, chapter 5 and chapter 6. In pages 158-9 Dummett gives a concise explanation of Frege's criticism on Husserl´s psychologism.

I put this just in case you are like me, fascinated with logic, and what to do some research. If so, I hope this helps.

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Gentlemen...start your engines!!!

I think British philosophy is declining. She is now undergoing a phenomenological turn. There is no Russell in the 21st Century to revolt against Idealism.

American philosophers have more potential to lead in the so-called post-Analytic era.

Is the "New Wittgenstein " called " American Wittgenstenian " ?