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Papers by Claire Ortiz Hill

New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, 2012

Revue Internationale de philosophie, 1997

This is my review in French of Ruth Barcan Marcus' book entitled: "Modalities."

This is the conference presentation listed here under the title "Laws of Form and Husserl's 'Stra... more This is the conference presentation listed here under the title "Laws of Form and Husserl's 'Strange World of the Purely Logical'"

Offers a rethinking of the foundations of 20th-century analytic philosophy. The text examines the... more Offers a rethinking of the foundations of 20th-century analytic philosophy. The text examines the writings of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell and Willard Quine and considers how the extensionalistic treatment of identity initiated by Frege has served as a hidden constraint on subsequent work. In his review of the book in History and Philosophy of Logic (19 (1998), 178-79), Ivor Grattan-Guinness wrote: a “welcomely non-standard and compact review of analytic philosophy. Although it does not control her interpretation, the authoress comes to the theme from her main experience in Husserlian philosophy, where metaphysics and ontology are treated more sympathetically than by the analysts. It also gives her a sympathy with history, so her survey considers Russell and Frege in some detail.”

Le mot et la chose chez Husserl et Frege: les racines de la philosophie du vingtième siècle, 1987

This was the presentation of my doctoral thesis that I gave at my thesis defense at the Universit... more This was the presentation of my doctoral thesis that I gave at my thesis defense at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne on June 19, 1987.

Constructive Semantics

Monist, 1994

Here I examine Frege’s criticisms of Husserl's views on abstraction, extensionality, and psycholo... more Here I examine Frege’s criticisms of Husserl's views on abstraction, extensionality, and psychologism in his damaging, abusive review of Philosophy of Arithmetic. I endeavor to show the extent to which Frege used that review as a forum for attacking Georg Cantor's theory of number. By so doing I hope to help put Frege's objections in the proper light and undo some of the damage done to Husserl's book, which philosophers have generally been all too willing to dismiss as irredeemably muddled.

Manuscrito Revista Internacional De Filosofia, 2000

Synthese, 2004

I investigate the origins of the contradiction derived by Russell in Frege's Basic Laws I in orde... more I investigate the origins of the contradiction derived by Russell in Frege's Basic Laws I in order to show that the source of antinomies, paradoxes, contradictions associated with modal and intensional logics is found there too. I first investigate the theory of reference of Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic (Frege 1884), then turn to study the philosophical arguments that compelled Russell to adopt a description theory of names and an eliminative theory of descriptions. I finally contend that such investigations shed needed light on issues surrounding the hows and whys of the New Theory of Reference that grew up in connection with modal and intensional logics. This is part of a broader quest to draw the implications of Kurt Gödel’s observation that close examination shows that the set theoretical paradoxes “are a very serious problem, not for mathematics, however, but rather for logic and epistemology.”

Husserl or Frege? Meaning, Objectivity and Mathematics,, 2000

My introduction to Husserl or Frege? Meaning, Objectivity and Mathematics, my book with Guillermo... more My introduction to Husserl or Frege? Meaning, Objectivity and Mathematics, my book with Guillermo Rosado Haddock.

Experience and Analysis, Erfahrung und Analyse (Proceedings of the International Wittgenstein Conference on held in Kirchberg am Wechsel, August 2004), M. E. Reicher and J. C. Marek (eds), Vienna: ÖBV&HPT Verlag,, 2005

It is well known that Quine argued that modern empiricism was to a large extent conditioned by an... more It is well known that Quine argued that modern empiricism was to a large extent conditioned by an ill-founded belief in a fundamental cleavage made by Kant between analytic truths, which are grounded in meaning independently of matters of fact, and synthetic truths, which are grounded in fact. In "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," Quine argued that it was a folly to look for such a boundary and that the idea that there was such distinction to be drawn at all was "an unempirical dogma of empiricists, a metaphysical article of faith." (Quine 1953)

It is much less well known that Husserl repudiated the same distinction and that phenomenology was to a large extent conditioned by his determination to overcome the destructive impact of Kant's theory. So, at this intersection of experience and analysis, we find ourselves at yet another crossroads between analytic philosophy and phenomenology. For the original cleavage between the two schools was to a large extent conditioned by reactions to Kant's cleavage.

Husserl's theory of manifolds was an important part of his answer to problems he detected. In what follows, I study its development in terms of the evolution of his ideas about empiricism and analyticity. To provide a context for integrating his theory into mainstream philosophy, I establish connections between it and work on axiom systems, truth in structures, and model theory.

Groundwork is lain for answering questions as to how to situate Husserl’s theory of functions in ... more Groundwork is lain for answering questions as to how to situate Husserl’s theory of functions in relation to Frege’s. I examine Husserl’s ideas about analyticity and mathematics, logic and mathematics, formalization, calculating with concepts and propositions, the foundations of arithmetic, extensions to show that, although he knew, studied and lauded Frege’s ideas about functions and concepts, each man approached the issues from different angles. Seduced by the siren of transcendental phenomenology Husserl did not pursue the issues, implications, and consequences of his ideas about functions. I ask whether so doing could provide new insight into, or even solutions to, the problems involving functions that beset Frege, Russell and have beset their successors.

Husserl and Cantor were colleagues and close friends during the last fourteen years of the 19th c... more Husserl and Cantor were colleagues and close friends during the last fourteen years of the 19th century, when Cantor was at the height of his creative powers and Husserl in the throes of an intellectual struggle during which he drew apart from people and writings to whom he owed most of his intellectual training and drew closer to the ideas of thinkers whose writings he had not been able to evaluate properly and had consulted too little. I study ways in which Husserl and Cantor might be said to have been alike, while pointing to dissimilarities between them. In particular, I discuss how their ideas overlapped and crisscrossed with regard to mathematics and philosophy, Platonic idealism, abstraction, empiricism, psychologism, actual consciousness and pure logic, Frege’s reviews of their works, metaphysics and mysticism, sets, arithmetization, strange and imaginary numbers and manifolds. I conclude that Cantor was among those of his mentors from whose ideas Husserl drew away and Lotze and Bolzano were among those to whose ideas he drew closer.

Now anthologized in my new book Experience and the Ultimate Structure of Reality, Husserl's Pursu... more Now anthologized in my new book Experience and the Ultimate Structure of Reality, Husserl's Pursuit of Truth (London: College Publications 2024). Edmund Husserl is known as the father of phenomenology, the science of intentionality. However, it is not well known that as a necessary complement to that science of subjectivity, he also fathered a science of objectivity, an austere scheme to limn the true and ultimate structure of reality free from acts, subjects, or empirical persons or objects belonging to actual reality, which shunned empiricism and embraced categoriality, essences and a fundamental, but anti-Kantian, cleavage between analytic truths. So it is that, by embracing precisely what analytic philosophers have reviled and wanted to wipe out he actually devised a plan to achieve what they have generally aspired to accomplish. However, Husserl’s strategy for keeping knowledge of reality from collapsing into a formless blob of facts became buried in the excitement, both negative and positive, generated by his phenomenology. So, here, I dig through his writings, especially those published by the Husserl Archives since the 1980s, to unearth up the categorial skeleton that he taught could uphold truly scientific knowledge of reality. I set forth his theories about categoriality and examine their relation to his ideas about propositional logic, the inviolable differences between dependent and independent meanings, wholes and parts, set theory and Russell’s contradiction, his identification of categoriality and analyticity and his theory of manifolds, which he considered to be the ultimate consummation of all purely categorial knowledge. I suggest that once the pieces of his theory about the categorial structure of reality are reassembled, philosophers can, and should, experiment with it as an alternative to the logical point of view used to prop up analytic philosophy, which endeavored unsuccessfully to wipe out the very differences he deemed revelatory of categoriality.

Notae Philosophicae Scientiae Formalis , 2013

Here I seek to provide the conceptual framework for interpreting Husserl's statements that: 1) th... more Here I seek to provide the conceptual framework for interpreting Husserl's statements that: 1) the set-theoretical paradoxes show that his contemporaries did not have the concept of set needed; 2) if one is clear about meaning, one sees the contradiction involved in those paradoxes; 3) the solution to them lies in demonstrating the shift of meaning that makes one not immediately aware of the contradiction and unable to indicate wherein it lies. I compare issues involved in Frege's use of the extensions that lead to the contradiction about the set of all sets that are not members of themselves and conclusions he and Russell came to regarding its causes. By the late 1890s, Husserl considered it very important to distinguish between logical laws and laws of meaning. For him, logical laws guarded against formal or analytical contradiction, Widersinn.

Dialogos, 2008

Time was if you asked non-phenomenologists of almost any philosophical stripe what they thought o... more Time was if you asked non-phenomenologists of almost any philosophical stripe what they thought of phenomenology, they would say, among other things, that it involved metaphysical commitments that they considered wholly unacceptable.
Indeed, schools of thought as diverse as those associated with Nietzsche, Marx, Russell, the Vienna Circle, Heidegger, Carnap, Sartre, Quine, partisans of secular political systems, and so on, all strove to shut the doors to metaphysical inquiry, ―an antagonism towards metaphysics that acted on several fronts to discredit, undermine, proscribe, kill a wide range of metaphysical notions associated with the follies and excesses of idealism ―whether transcendental, subjective, absolute, or religious―, associated with the names of people like Kant, Hegel, and Bradley, not to mention J. Christ.
This rush to undo metaphysics extended to every vestige of it. Earmarked for demolition were essences, universals, Ideas with a big I, senses, meanings, concepts, attributes, propositions, intensions, anything hinting of the a priori and the mind. They were condemned as fake, outmoded, irrelevant, worn out, meaningless, repulsive, inhibiting, repressive, pernicious, destructive, dangerous ―as frustrating and fettering scientific progress.
Into this intellectual climate, Edmund Husserl introduced phenomenology, the science of the intentionality of the mind that taught people to go out in pursuit of the very essences, universals, Ideas, meanings, concepts, attributes, propositions that so many of his contemporaries were so busy bashing.
Here, I want to look at Husserl’s conversion from psychology from the empirical standpoint to the metaphysical standpoint that went into the making of phenomenology at the end of the 19th century, a time that resembles our times in some respects. I shall close with some comments about phenomenology’s interaction with analytic philosophy in this regard.

Idealization IV. Historical Studies on Abstraction and Idealization, Poznan studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities vol. 82, F. Coniglione, R. Poli, R. Rollinger (eds.), Rodopi, Amsterdam,, Jun 30, 2004

Very little is known of Husserl’s encounter with the Georg Cantor’s theories about Platonic ideal... more Very little is known of Husserl’s encounter with the Georg Cantor’s theories about Platonic idealism and the abstraction of number concepts. Much, however, can be gleaned about this from a close study and comparison of Cantor’s and Husserl’s writings during those crucial years in Husserl’s development. So in the following pages I try to shed light on that dark period in Husserl’s development by studying the evolution his ideas underwent as this relates to Cantor’s philosophizing about abstraction, Platonic idealism and the concept of number. I focus on the important changes which took place in Husserl’s ideas during his first ten years in Halle.

New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, 2012

Revue Internationale de philosophie, 1997

This is my review in French of Ruth Barcan Marcus' book entitled: "Modalities."

Le mot et la chose chez Husserl et Frege: les racines de la philosophie du vingtième siècle, 1987

Constructive Semantics

Monist, 1994

Manuscrito Revista Internacional De Filosofia, 2000

Synthese, 2004

Husserl or Frege? Meaning, Objectivity and Mathematics,, 2000

Notae Philosophicae Scientiae Formalis , 2013

Dialogos, 2008

History and Philosophy of Logic, 2010

This is a preprint version of my “Review of Cantor et la France, by Anne-Marie Décaillot,” which ... more This is a preprint version of my “Review of Cantor et la France, by Anne-Marie Décaillot,” which that appeared in definitive form in History and Philosophy of Logic 31:1, February 2010, 99-100.

Phenomenological Inquiry, 2009

Dialogos, 1999

Synthese, 2002

Those who have claimed that Pope Pius XII was loath to speak out against Nazi Germany's crimes be... more Those who have claimed that Pope Pius XII was loath to speak out against Nazi Germany's crimes because she was saving Christianity from the communist peril have themselves remained tellingly silent about the non-aggression pact which, after years of mutual bashing, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin unabashedly formalized on August 23, 1939 2, a momentous act which dumbfounded the world, discountenanced Nazis and Communists alike, enabled Germany and Russia to invade Catholic Poland lickety-split, triggered World War II, set the stage for Nazi-Soviet collaboration for the vital, world-changing, first third of it, muted Germany's criticism of her erstwhile enemy, served as a springboard for their joint efforts to extinguish Christianity, considerably expanded the geographical dominion of Soviet influence, moved Communism into the heart of Europe, redrew the map of eastern and central Europe, etc. And, it has left many wordless nowadays, notably those now intent upon deriding Pius XII, ostensibly because anyone wanting to convince anyone that he could have possibly believed that Hitler could be counted on to save Christianity from Communism really needs to reckon with, not just ignore, this historical reality.

About the state of Pope Pius XI's health during the 1930s.

About the future Pope Pius XII's presence at the Eucharistic Congress in Budapest

About the future Pope Pius XII's supposed fear of Bolshevism.

Vicious anti-Jewish rioting broke out throughout Germany and Austria during the night of Novembe... more Vicious anti-Jewish rioting broke out throughout Germany and Austria during the night of November 9-10, 1938, known as "Kristallnacht" or the "Night of Broken Glass." The well-orchestrated violence continued during the day, with the rioters often pursuing their wrecking in the sight of uniformed Nazi Party members, storm troopers or police, who often did nothing to restrain them. Synagogues were wrecked, bombed, dynamited, torched. Torah rolls, prayer books and prayer strings were thrown into the street and burned. Wreckers, looters, firebugs shattered windows, pillaged, ransacked, robbed, set fire to Jewish shops, businesses, offices. Jews were wantonly attacked, kicked, brutalized, spat on, punched and beaten by mobs. Obscenities and harsh insults were hurled at Jewish men, women and children. Jewish homes were raided and searched. Thousands of Jews were arrested and numerous others summoned to Gestapo headquarters. Innumerably many others were wrested from their homes or hiding places, their families left in ignorance as to their fate. Thousands were interned in concentration camps. The violence left vandalized, smashed, plundered, charred, ruined property and terrorized people in its wake. Few were killed, but there were many suicides.

During the 1930s Daniel Goldhagen has told readers that the German government did virtually nothi... more During the 1930s Daniel Goldhagen has told readers that the German government did virtually nothing to Catholic bishops (Goldhagen 2002, 81). Michael Phayer has stated authoritatively that, "In fact not one bishop ever went to prison − much less to the gallows − during the Nazi era" (Phayer 2000,

On February 2, 1934, the Bishop of Hildesheim, Nikolaus Bares, became the second bishop of the Di... more On February 2, 1934, the Bishop of Hildesheim, Nikolaus Bares, became the second bishop of the Diocese of Berlin, which had been founded on August 13, 1930 in connection with the Prussian concordat of July 14, 1929. Since he took possession of his diocese after the signing of the Reich Concordat, he was obliged to swear and promise to be loyal to the German Reich and to honor the legally constituted government at a time when the Catholic non-Nazi von Papen was still Reich Vice-Chancellor and the Protestant non-Nazi von Hindenburg was still Reich President. Bares died just thirteen months after taking possession of his diocese. Nonetheless, despite his short tenure and despite Nazi strictures, he found occasions to speak out against Nazi paganism, racism, devilry

The Night of Long Knives In his memoirs, André François-Poncet recalled that the atmosphere in Ge... more The Night of Long Knives In his memoirs, André François-Poncet recalled that the atmosphere in Germany during the Spring of 1934 was heavy and stifling, auguring an impending storm. The open conflict with the Christian churches,

One of the Shrewdest of Priests of Jehovah of the Jewish-Roman Church Michael Cardinal von Faulha... more One of the Shrewdest of Priests of Jehovah of the Jewish-Roman Church Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber served as Archbishop of Munich for 35 years, from 1917, throughout the entire Weimar Republic, during which time he enjoyed the friendship of Nuncio Pacelli (Tracy 1966, 28-34), and the entire Nazi era, until his death in 1952. He was elevated to cardinal in 1921. So it is well worth noting that he was in office long before the signing of the Concordat and therefore was not bound by any oath of loyalty to the Nazi Reich and state. He was of peasant stock, the third of seven children of a baker and a baker's daughter. On May 1, 1913, Prince Regent Ludwig III made him a knight of the Merit Order of the Bavarian Crown, which explains the presence in his name of the aristocratic particle "von." Oddly, however, in writing disparagingly of him as an aristocrat in comparison to some of his fellow bishops, Guenter Lewy omitted the "von" from the names of Bishop

This is the Table of Contents for my third book on Catholicism and Nazism.

This is the Table of Contents for my second book on Nazism and the Catholic Church

This is the Table of Contents for the first volume of my books about Nazism and the Catholic Church.

German or Austrian Priests Arrested or Harmed by the Nazis On January 30, 1939, Hitler opened his... more German or Austrian Priests Arrested or Harmed by the Nazis On January 30, 1939, Hitler opened his speech before the Reichstag by recalling Nazism's long fight against the priests of the Center party, communist atheists, socialists and capitalists, conservatives and republicans, who were all united in "a hatred born of their guilty consciences and even worse intentions" in a common cause with Jewry and enjoyed the blessing of the bishop politicians of the different churches. He warned that the National Socialist state would ruthlessly make it clear that clergy who spoke insultingly of the Reich, its organizations or its leaders would be called to account and that those who were enemies of the Reich would be destroyed (Hitler 1939, 1, 51, 53-54). In February 1940, his Minister of Church Affairs Kerrl declared that any clergyman who uttered any form of political criticism against the regime would be subject to disciplinary and penal prosecution. (Spicer 2004, 62) Yet, some have considered those to have been just empty threats. For example, Gitta Sereny informed

Below is a list of some German and Austrian priests arrested or harmed by the Nazis whose names a... more Below is a list of some German and Austrian priests arrested or harmed by the Nazis whose names and stories I have come across in the course of my research. I must stress that it is not comprehensive. I do not even claim that it is completely accurate. Although I have repeatedly crosschecked and verified the information contained in it, many tricky problems stand in the way of establishing an exhaustive, accurate list. For one thing, Hitler redrew Germany's borders and he redefined Germanness. So, it is not even completely clear who was actually a German priest and who was not during the Third Reich. For instance, Alsatians and Luxembourgers, not to mention Austrians, were among those who became members of the master race during those days, whether they liked it or not. So it is that, for example, the Alsatian Dachau survivor Fr. Jean Kammerer and the Luxembourger Dachau survivor Fr. Jean Bernard and their compatriots do not figure on the list below, although the Nazis considered them to be German priests. In addition, errors in the names of priests mar records, journalistic accounts and other writings by them and about them. Names were liable to be misspelled, for instance, umlauts not taken into consideration. In addition, there are often variations in the spelling of German names, for example: Karl and Carl; Johannes, Johann and Jan; Rudolf and Rudolph; Heinrich and Heinz. Moreover, priests belonging to religious orders often had both religious and legal names and therefore could be known and remembered in completely different ways, something I have indicated, when I could, by placing religious names in parentheses.

Darkness over the Earth

The Mass Slaughter of Jews Begins At the changing of the guard on the international bridge at Bre... more The Mass Slaughter of Jews Begins At the changing of the guard on the international bridge at Brest-Litovsk at 3:15 a.m. on June 22, 1941, instead of saluting their Russian allies in the usual way, the German sentries shot them dead. Thus, confident of another quick victory, Hitler unilaterally terminated his nearly three-year-old pact with Russia as three million of his soldiers, thousands of tanks and aircraft, preceded by intense artillery bombardment, launched a massive attack on his erstwhile partner's land, which sustained staggering losses during the first few weeks of the onslaught.

This is a list of 2,500 articles published in newspapers, many of them Jewish, between 1933 and 1... more This is a list of 2,500 articles published in newspapers, many of them Jewish, between 1933 and 1946 about the Catholic Church and Nazism.

The Satanic Specter

The Terrible Secret These excerpts from newspapers articles show that the journalists were alread... more The Terrible Secret These excerpts from newspapers articles show that the journalists were already telling the world about the extermination of the Jews in July 1942. The reports of the many major demonstrations that took place show that they were heard.

Darkness over the Earth, Hitlerism and Catholicism 1939-1942 Chapter 19 About the Savior of Christianity’s Holy Crusade, 2020

This book began with the beginning of Pius XII's papacy and Germany's pact with Russia, which unl... more This book began with the beginning of Pius XII's papacy and Germany's pact with Russia, which unleashed Hitler, touched off World War II, fostered Nazi-Soviet collaboration during the first third of it, brought a big chunk of Catholic Poland and eastern and central Europe under Bolshevist domination, etc. It will now end with Hitler's masquerade as the leader of a crusade to save Christianity from Bolshevism. Indeed, once he reneged on his deal with his Bolshevist bedfellow by invading Russia and the lands Stalin had overpowered owing to it, Hitler relaunched his by then scarcely believable campaign to have people, including Pius XII, believe that, in spite of all the Nazis had done to crush Catholicism and bring Bolshevism westward, Nazi Germany was actually a bulwark, and he a savior, protecting Christianity from Communism, he whom the author of Hitler's Pope would quote as having said as Germany invaded Russia during the summer of 1941: "Christianity is the hardest blow that ever hit humanity. Bolshevism is the bastard son of Christianity; both are the monstrous issues of the Jews." (Cornwell 1999, 261)

Darkness over the Earth, Hitlerism and Catholicism 1939-1942, 2020

On December 23, 1939, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed an eloquent letter to Pi... more On December 23, 1939, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed an eloquent letter to Pius XII, whom he considered he had "the privilege of calling a good friend and an old friend," to "suggest" to him that it would give him "great satisfaction" to send a personal representative to the Holy See in order that their "parallel endeavors for peace and the alleviation of suffering may be assisted" (Roosevelt & Pius XII 1939-45, 19, 31). In consequence, Pius closed his Christmas Eve speech saying that he did not want to deny himself the joy of announcing that that morning he had received a telegram declaring that Roosevelt was naming Mr. Myron Taylor to be...

Darkness over the Earth, Hitlerism and Catholicism 1939-1942, 2020

Satisfied that they had annihilated Poland, the governments of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany ... more Satisfied that they had annihilated Poland, the governments of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany proclaimed it to be exclusively their task to restore peace where she used to be and to assure the people living there a peaceful life in keeping with their national character. To effect this, they said, they were signing the "German-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty," which divided what was Poland between themselves and put the onus on France and Great Britain for any continuation of the war. For the signing of that treaty on September 28, 1939, the very day Warsaw capitulated, Ribbentrop...

Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy, 2019

Meta. Vol. XI, No. 2 / December 2019: After Husserl: Phenomenological Foundations of Mathematics ... more Meta. Vol. XI, No. 2 / December 2019: After Husserl: Phenomenological Foundations of Mathematics

Guest Editor: Iulian Apostolescu

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I suggest some connections between Laws of Form and what Husserl called the "strange world of the... more I suggest some connections between Laws of Form and what Husserl called the "strange world of the purely logical." Specifically, I talk about: Husserl's background, especially as a mathematician, and his use of symbolic notation. Then, I compare his and Spencer-Brown's views on: the relationship between mathematics and logic, mentioning Boole; the fundamental particles from which numbers can be made; the structure of knowledge of the universe, especially Husserl's theory of manifolds; imaginary entities; Russell's theory of types. For lack of time, I only mention Spencer-Brown's and Russell's exchange on propositional functions and Husserl's theories about them.

Experience and the Ultimate Structure of Reality, Husserl's Pursuit of Truth, 2024

This is the Table of Contents for my new book: Experience and the Ultimate Structure of Reality, ... more This is the Table of Contents for my new book: Experience and the Ultimate Structure of Reality, Husserl's Pursuit of Truth.

Experience and the Ultimate Structure of Reality, Husserl's Pursuit of Truth, 2024

This is my preface to my new book: Experience and the Ultimate Structure of Reality, Husserl's Pu... more This is my preface to my new book: Experience and the Ultimate Structure of Reality, Husserl's Pursuit of Truth.

The Roots and Flowers of Evil in Baudelaire, Nietzsche and Hitler, Part III, 2006

This is Part Three of my published book: The Roots and Flowers of Evil in Baudelaire, Nietzsche a... more This is Part Three of my published book: The Roots and Flowers of Evil in Baudelaire, Nietzsche and Hitler published by Open Court in 2006. I reworked it a little in order to make it into an independent essay. For any citations the book itself should cited.

This was the English-language (with quotations in French and German) appendix to my Sorbonne Mast... more This was the English-language (with quotations in French and German) appendix to my Sorbonne Master's Thesis (entitled "La logique des expressions intentionnelles) of April 1, 1979.

La logique des expressions intentionnelles, 1979

1er avril 1979 TABLE DE MATIERES INTRODUCTION I. LA THÈSE DE BRENTANO A. La présence intentionnel... more 1er avril 1979 TABLE DE MATIERES INTRODUCTION I. LA THÈSE DE BRENTANO A. La présence intentionnelle distingue les phénomènes mentaux des phénomènes physiques B. L'intérêt actuel de la thèse de Brentano C. Les expressions intentionnelles résistent aux méthodes extentionnelles l. le principe de substitutivité des identiques 2. le principe de généralisation existentielle II. FREGE : les expressions intentionnelles ont une dénotation indirecte laquelle coïncide avec leur sens habituel A. Son anti-psychologisme B. Réflexions sur le langage C. Expression, objet, signification D. Le sens et la dénotation de l'énoncé affirmatif pris comme un tout III. HUSSERL: la science d'intentionnalité A. Rejet du psychologisme B. Réflexions sur le langage C. Expression, objet, signification D. Les expressions objectives vs. les expressions essentiellement subjectives E. L'élargissement de l'horizon de recherche IV. HINTIKKA A. La sémantique des mondes possibles est la logique d'intentionnalité B. D. Føllesdal: « Comme on peut s'y attendre les noèmes ressemblent, en presque tout, aux Sinne linguistiques » C. L'identification d'individus à travers des mondes possibles et la constitution husserlienne sont, au fond, identiques V. ANALYSES ET CONCLUSIONS