The Brentanist Philosophy of Mathematics in Edmund Husserl’s Early Works

Mathesis Universalis from Leibniz to Husserl

“…And the goal of our preceding deliberations was to vividly portray to them 35 Ib.,pp. 29 f. 36 For a more extensive discussion, on which this section is partially based, see Ierna (2017). 37 Husserl (1956) p. 294.…”

Brentano as a Logicist

“…Not just based on direct citations and references in their works, but also based on reviews of their works as belonging to a unified School. Alois Höfler, a student of Meinong, wrote a collective review (Höfler, 1894)2 of Husserl's Philosophy of Arithmetic, Benno Kerry's series of articles "Über Anschauung und ihre psychische Verarbeitung" (Kerry, 1885(Kerry, -1891 and Ehrenfels' article "Zur Philosophie der Mathematik" (Ehrenfels 1891).3 On its own, this would certainly already suffice to show that there was not just a vertical lineage, but cross-connections among the Brentanists writing on the philosophy of mathematics (Ierna, 2017a). The more important claims, however, are the second and third, which regard the content of such a shared "Brentanist Philosophy of Mathematics" (Ierna, 2011).…”