Abstract

Mall indicates that his study of Husserl and Hume is one that demonstrates programmatic similarities. Much of his study is on Husserl’s concepts dealing with reason and experience. These concepts are compared to Hume’s basic philosophical concepts. Mall believes that Hume’s philosophy of human nature has some similarity to Husserl’s transcendental subjectivity. Hume’s concept of imagination "foreshadowed Husserl’s concept of constitution." Hume’s analysis of experience which is at the level of "mundane existence" is similar to Husserl’s pre-predicative experience. Yet, as Mall notes, Hume’s analysis of experience "verges on the discovery of a transcendental explanation of our mundane experience." Linking experience with reason Mall feels that "reason is dependent on experience." With Husserl reason is seen as "a telos beyond all change and modification" that resides at a "too high a transcendental level for his phenomenology."