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Edmund Husserl
Husserl worked primarily in mathematics, psychology, and philosophy. He founded phenomenology as a study. He developed a method of ‘phenomenological reduction’ that discerned the purest form of observation; he identified and analyzed the conscious perception of time in ‘time-consciousness’; and he identified a kind of pre-scientific ‘lifeworld’ that guides scientific understanding; and developed transcendental idealism.

His major works include Ideas I, II, and III, but his other writings generally cover a wide range of philosophical topics.
Works:
Philosophy of Arithmetic (1891) - A philosophical and psychological perspective on mathematics, particularly numbers.
Logical Investigations (1900-1901) - A foundational text in phenomenology which examines logic and which argues against psychologism, the view that logical facts depend on psychology.
Ideas I (1913) - Husserl’s shift toward transcendental philosophy and the significance of consciousness in knowledge and perception.
On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time (1893 - 1917) - A collection of writings on the conscious experience of time.
Formal and Transcendental Logic (1929) - An argument for logic as the most fundamental theory of science.
Cartesian Meditations (1931) - An introduction to transcendental phenomenology, including ideas like eidetic reduction and parallels to transcendental idealism.
Experience and Judgement (1939) - An argument that logic requires a theory of experience, especially in terms of his phenomenology.
Ideas II (1952 / Posthumous) - An examination of the constitution of the physical world
Ideas III (1952 / Posthumous) - A phenomenological perspective on the sciences.
Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy (1965 / Posthumous) - Two essays that argue for the treatment of philosophy as a scientific and rigorous discipline, as well as the effects of neglecting that on western man.
Values of Love and Ethical Reflection (2024 / Posthumous) - Husserl’s ideas on value theory and love.
The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (Unfinished) - A diagnosis of a crisis caused by the loss of the Life-World (the world of everyday experience) in science.