G?del's philosophical program and Husserl's phenomenology

摘要

G?del's philosophical rationalism includes a program for "developing philosophy as an exact science." G?del believes that Husserl's phenomenology is essential for the realization of this program. In this article, by analyzing G?del's philosophy of idealism, conceptual realism, and his concept of "abstract intuition," based on clues from G?del's manuscripts, I try to investigate the reasons why G?del is strongly interested in Husserl's phenomenology and why his program for an exact philosophy is unfinished. One of the topics that has attracted much attention recently is the development of G?del's philosophical thoughts and its connection with other philosophical ideas. For instance, some scholars are searching for the possible connections between G?del's philosophy and Husserl's phenomenology and examining if there is any solid evidence of Husserl's influence on G?del from G?del's works (Tieszen, Bull Symbolic Logic 4(2):181-203, 1998; Huaser, Bull Symbolic Logic 12(4):529-588, 2006). Why is G?del' s interested in Husserl? How should this turn to Husserl be interpreted? Is it a dismissal of Leibnizian philosophy, or a different way to achieve similar goals? Way did G?del turn specifically to Husserl's transcendental idealism? (Van Atten and Kennedy, Bull Symbolic Logic 9(4):425-476, 2003) I believe, the reason is that G?del has a valuable program for "developing philosophy as an exact science" and he believes that Husserl's phenomenology is relevant to the realization of this program. So far there are no sufficient evidence to show that there is a direct inheritance relation between G?del's and Husserl's thoughts. However, from the clues in G?del's idealistic philosophy, conceptual realism, and his concept of "abstract intuition," we can perhaps explore some similarities between his thoughts and Husserl's thoughts, and analyze the reason why G?del is interested in Husserl's phenomenology and why his program for an exact philosophy is unfinished.