Brouwer, as Never Read by Husserl

Author: van Atten M.  

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

ISSN: 0039-7857

Source: Synthese, Vol.137, Iss.1-2, 2003-11, pp. : 3-19

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Abstract

Even though Husserl and Brouwer have never discussed each other's work, ideas from Husserl have been used to justify Brouwer's intuitionistic logic. I claim that a Husserlian reading of Brouwer can also serve to justify the existence of choice sequences as objects of pure mathematics. An outline of such a reading is given, and some objections are discussed.