Abstract

In the last few years research on Husserl has more and more brought attention to his contributions to logic and to philosophy of mathematics. Phenomenology and Mathematics participates in this trend; ‘[i]t gathers the contributions of the main scholars of the field into one publication for the first time’ (p. xxi) and is remarkably successful in giving ‘an overview of the current debates and themes in the phenomenology of mathematics’ (loc. cit.). As the editor, Mirja Hartimo, declares in her Introduction, the volume can be read as an answer to the question, ‘What kind of philosophy of mathematics is phenomenology?’ (loc. cit.). In the following I will select some questions that mathematics poses to philosophical reflection and see to what extent they are dealt with and answered in the volume and to what extent the volume is successful in justifying the underlying claim that we have to use a phenomenological reading-glass to look at what is going on in mathematical reasoning.