Logic and the Objectivity of Knowledge

Logic and the Objectivity of Knowledge (Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, 1984; xv and 277 pages) is Dallas Willard's book on Edmund Husserl's early philosophy of logic, the subject of his 1964 Wisconsin dissertation on meaning and universals in Husserl's Logische Untersuchungen. It examines how Husserl came to his account of logic and of the objectivity of knowledge, and it draws on Willard's earlier journal articles, among them his studies of Husserl's concept of number, of Husserl's critique of extensional logic and of "a logic that failed", and his essay on wholes, parts and the objectivity of knowledge. It was reviewed in the Review of Metaphysics, Husserl Studies, the Philosophical Review and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. It is his principal work of academic philosophy, published in the same year as his first Christian book, In Search of Guidance.