Philosophy of Arithmetic

Philosophy of Arithmetic (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2003), volume 10 of Edmund Husserl: Collected Works, is Dallas Willard's English translation of Husserl's first book, Philosophie der Arithmetik (1891), together with the shorter works published with it in Husserliana XII (Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1970). Husserl's book gives psychological and logical analyses of the concept of number and of arithmetic, and it is the starting point of the development that led to his Logical Investigations. Willard had worked on these texts since his 1964 dissertation and had published an earlier translation of Husserl's On the Concept of Number in the 1970s. The volume carries a translator's introduction of some fifty pages. It was reviewed by Dale Jacquette in The Review of Metaphysics (2005).