Contemporary Problems of Epistemology in the Light of Phenomenology

This book comprises a collection of 12 research articles
pertaining to the infl uence of phenomenological analysis
on current issues of epistemology, this one meant
as a philosophy of science. Ten of these articles have
already appeared in various research journals of the
fi eld at large and have been to a considerable extent
re-edited, updated and in certain respects reworked. The
remaining two are published originally for this book and naturally
complement and invigorate the argumentation and the scope of
the published articles. Overall, the content of the book can be
described as an original attempt to demonstrate the relevance
of Husserlian phenomenology with regard to theoretical
questions arising from the contemporary evolution of such
diverse scientifi c fi elds as the foundations of mathematics and
the interpretation of quantum mechanics.
"Stathis Livadas has pushed the investigation of the foundations
of mathematics and of present day physical theories out of a
strictly analytic point of view, by considering a phenomenological
approach on these matters. According to him mathematics
and science present various ambiguous notions which cannot
be, in principle, resolved by analytical means only. Therefore, a
more general approach is pursued. This book contains several
of his already published articles, and now they are put together
for a more general audience in the form of a book. I think that
this line of investigation, facing current epistemological issues
under a phenomenological point of view, is fruitful and relevant,
and ought to be considered by a wide range of philosophers."
Décio Krause. Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.
"Stathis Livadas' book embodies a masterly analysis of some
important questions in the philosophy of mathematics and
in Husserl's phenomenology. According to Livadas, non-
Cantorian theories and intuitionistic ones are "trapped" in the
impredicativity of the continuum when they shift the boundaries
beyond naturally intuited countability in our witnessed
universe. In this perspective, from a theoretical point of view,
mathematical intuition is not eliminable. Hence the challenge
to point out to the intuition of continuum in accordance
with a phenomenological point of view, i.e., making essential
reference to the existence of a categorial intuition based on
the intentionality of primary experience which is genetically
constituted in the unity of the fl ux of consciousness."
Arturo Carsetti. University of Rome "Tor Vergata"