Writings of Claire Ortiz
Hill
New address: claireortizhill at gmail.com
My translation of Edmund Husserl's Logic and General Theory of Science (Logik und allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, Husserliana XXX), funded by an NEH Fellowship 2012, has now been published.
Here is my Introduction and my Index. See
my review of the book.
The Road Not Taken, On Husserl's
Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics
co-authored by Jairo José da Silva,
London: College Publications, April 30, 2013
See Table of Contents! See Index!
For different
reasons, Husserl’s original, thought-provoking ideas on the philosophy of logic
and mathematics have been ignored, misunderstood, even despised, by analytic philosophers
and phenomenologists alike, who have been content to barricade themselves behind
walls of ideological prejudices. Yet, for
several decades, Husserl was almost continuously in close professional and
personal contact with those who created, reshaped and revolutionized 20th
century philosophy of mathematics, logic, science and language in both the
analytic and phenomenological schools, people whom those other makers of 20th
century philosophy, Russell, Frege, Wittgenstein and their followers, rarely,
if ever, met. Independently of them, Husserl offered alternatives to the well-trodden
paths of logicism, nominalism, formalism and intuitionism. He presented a
well-articulated, thoroughly argued case for logic as an objective science, but
was not philosophically naïve to the point of not seeing the role of
subjectivity in shaping the sense of the reality facing objective science. Given the
preeminent role that philosophy of logic and philosophy of mathematics have played
in transforming the way philosophy has been done since Husserl’s time, and
given the depth of his insights and his obvious expertise in those fields, his
ideas need to be integrated into present-day, mainstream philosophy. Here,
philosopher Claire Ortiz Hill and mathematician-philosopher Jairo da Silva
offer a wealth of interesting insights intended to subvert the many mistaken idées reçues about the development of Husserl’s
thought and reestablish broken ties between it and philosophy now.
Some Comments:
I just received my copy of The Road
Not Taken. On Husserl's Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics. I have not
been able to put it down since I received it yesterday. I had always wondered
what was going on with Husserl's colleagues at Göttingen. Finally, I have the
details! And I had also always wondered about his early work in mathematics.
I've heard the standard sketches and chronologies, but they tend to be pretty
thin. In addition to the biographical details, the philosophical content is
also gripping and illuminating. I rarely read philosophy books the way I read
fiction--they are rarely page turners. For me at least, this was an exception. Thanks
for a wonderfully stimulating and important piece of philosophical work. Jeff
Yoshimi, University of California.
The book makes Husserl accessible for a broader audience educated
in the present tradition of analytic philosophy, and as such is an important
contribution to the philosophy of logic and mathematics. H. C. M. de Swart (Erasmus) From
Zentralblatt für Mathematik
When one reads... a highly interesting and extremely thorough book on Husserl's
philosophy of logic and mathematics, the question that arises is: Why hasn't
Husserl's philosophy of logic and mathematics been at the center of the current
debate in logic and philosophy of mathematics? What the two authors of this
book underscore in a highly insightful way is that Husserlian philosophy... has
been the `victim' of a double damnatio memoriae. On the one hand, we find the
analytic repression..., on the other, the continental (or hermeneutic)
effacement, which for many years maintained silence about the true ideas at the
heart of phenomenology... Beyond the extremely detailed, erudite essays of this
book, beyond the richness of content presented, is a general, extremely
instructive message for those wishing to tackle phenomenology and thought about
mathematics... Fausto Fraisopi
(Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) From Discipline Filosofiche, Rivista semestrale
The Road not Taken deals with a
series of topics deserving adequate study in addition to reflection upon each
and every one of the readings that both Claire Ortiz Hill and Jairo da Silva
propose to us in this extraordinary compilation, which I unhesitatingly
thoroughly recommend. Luis Alberto Canela Morales
(Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) Eikasia revistadefilosofia.com July 2014
6th Book, Facing
the Light
Ten mystical stories with twelve original
works of art by Jacqueline Wegmann. Santa Fe, New Mexico:
Lone Butte Press, May 2010, 120 pages, $10. Ten mystical
stories written during the 1980s with twelve original works of art by
Jacqueline Wegmann. Now available from Amazon.com or claire dot hill
at orange dot fr
An extract from Facing
the Light is now available for reading on
Somos en escrito
magazine at http://www.somosenescrito.blogspot.com and for background information: http://somosenescrito.blogspot.com/2010/02/bienvenidos.html
Amazing Review by Helen Rivas Galvan (First published online in Somos en escrito)
5th Book:
Introduction to Logic and Theory of Knowledge,
Lectures 1906/07
This is my translation of Edmund Husserl's
Einleitung in die Logik und
Erkenntnistheorie (Husserliana XXIV). The
translation was made possible by a fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Humanities, Washington D.C. Published in 2008 by
Springer as volume XIII of the Collected
Works of Husserl of the Husserl Archives
in Leuven, Belgium. (ISBN 978-1-4020-6725-9) (Hardback $269,
Paperback $39.95), approx. 500 pages. Read my Introduction. See the Index.
4th Book, The
Roots and Flowers of Evil in Baudelaire, Nietzsche, and
Hitler
Chicago: Open Court, 2006, See
Table of
Contents! Index!
Publisher's description:
"The seductive nature of evil is fully embraced by Baudelaire,
Nietzsche, and Hitler. In Part One of this book, instead of viewing
these men in their traditional roles, the author takes their most
notorious writings--The Flowers of Evil and Spleen of Paris by the
poet Charles Baudelaire; Daybreak, Thoughts on the Prejudices of
Morality, Beyond Good and Evil, and The Genealogy of Morals by
philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche; and Mein Kampf by politician Adolf
Hitler--and points out the insights, images, and surprising facts
about evil in their interpretations. However, as the author
demonstrates, ideas put on paper are not the same as ideas put into
action. In Part Two, Hill looks at concrete historical and current
events, making the transition from the theories of evil formulated by
Baudelaire, Nietzsche, and Hitler to the real world with examples of
violence, torture, and oppression. Finally, in Part Three, she argues
in favor of the nonviolent movements of the twentieth century,
countering the claim that power can only be imposed through violence,
and advocating nonviolent responses to certain forms of evil. This
book is interdisciplinary, incorporating material from the fields of
philosophy, history, politics, ethics, psychology, literature,
aesthetics, religion and sociology, and drawing on extensive present
day scholarship on Nietzsche, the problem of evil, and the
Holocaust."
1st Book
Word and Object in Husserl, Frege
and Russell, the Roots of Twentieth Century Philosophy
Ohio University Press,
Athens, 1991 (2001 paperback)
2nd Book
Rethinking Identity and Metaphysics,
On the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy
Yale University Press, New Haven,
1997
3rd Book
Husserl or Frege? Meaning,
Objectivity, and Mathematics
with Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock, Open
Court, Chicago, 2000 (paperback 2003)
"Introduction" by
Claire Ortiz Hill, Index
My Memoire de
Maîtrise defended at the Sorbonne in
1979 is now published here:
La logique des
expressions intentionnelles
Forthcoming
"David Hilbert's Fight for Philosophy," Husserl and Awakened Reason: Critical Essays on Mathematics, Science and Phenomenology, Iulian Apostolescu (ed.) forthcoming Springer Verlag.
"Husserl and Frege on Imaginaries and the Deep Nature of Things," in Rivista di Filosofia.
In Preparation
Invited Paper: "On Denoting Imaginary Entities" to be given at the University of Cologne in early June.
Translation of Georg Cantor's "metaphysical"
correspondence and other letters, in collaboration with the German mathematician Walter Tydecks.
Four books on Nazism and Catholicism
I
have prepared three manuscripts about the Catholic Church during the
Nazi period mainly inspired by newspaper articles and other primary
documents, diaires for example, to show how the issues were presented
at the time and to refute influential, but erroneous, scholarship on
the subject. The titles are: Like Fire and Water, Hitlerism and Catholicism in Germany and Austria 1933-1939; 'Pope of the Jews and Bolsheviks,' Hitlerism and the Vatican 1933-1939; Darkness over the Earth, Hitlerism and Catholicism, 1939-1942. The fourth unfinished book is entitled: Specter of Satan, Catholicism and the Final Solution, 1942-1945.
Thus Spoke Pius XI, Thus Spoke Pius XII A list
of nearly 2,500
newspaper articles from the 1930s and 1940s documenting the Catholic Church's opposition to
Nazism and anti-semitism. The articles are mostly from
The New York Times, the Los Angeles
Times, the Times
of London and Time Magazine, The Jewish Criterion, Palestine Post, Ohio Jewish
Chronicle, The Jewish Chronicle (UK), Jewish Chicago Sentinel, The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, along with
numerous articles from Australian newspapers
of the time. Updated February 2019. These are going into the making of
four books on the subject.
The Terrible Secret
A list of excerpts from approximately 100 newspaper articles mostly
from July 1942 to September 1943 showing that journalists were telling
the world about the extermination of the Jews and that many major
demonstrations protesting the extermination were held around the world.
List of Some German,
Austrian Priests and Western European Catholic Bishops Arrested or
Harmed by the Nazis with a picture of Fr. Jacques Sommet, Jesuit, drawn by a
monk in Dachau!! Updated November 27, 2020.
Juozapas Skvireckas (1873-1959) Lithuanian Archbishop of Kaunas (1926-1959) Information about his defense of Jews from Nazi-era Jewish sources.
Articles, Reviews and
Stories
"Husserl on Sets and the Causes of the Set-theoretical Paradoxes," in Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy Vol. XI, no. 2, December 2019, a special issue entitled After Husserl: Phenomenological Foundations of Mathematics, Iulian Apostolescu (guest editor), pp. 450-72.
"Husserl's Purely Logical Chastity Belt," Constructive Semantics, Meaning in Between
Phenomenology and Constructivism, Christina Weiss (ed.), Cham (Switzerland), Springer Nature Switzerland, 2019, pp. 135-46.
"On Limning the True and Ultimate Structure of Reality," in Mereologies, Ontologies, and Facets,
The Categorial Structure of Reality, Paul Hackett (ed.), Lanham MD, Lexington Books, 2018, pp. 37-64.
"Husserl and Cantor," in Essays on Husserl's Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics, Stefania Centrone (ed.), Dordrecht,
Springer, 2017, pp.169-96.
"Husserl
and Frege on Functions," Husserl and Analytic Philosophy, Guillermo Rosado Haddock (ed.), Berlin, de
Gruyter, 2016, pp. 89-117.
"Husserl's Way Out of Frege's Jungle", in Objects and Pseudo-Objects Ontological Deserts and Jungles from Brentano to Carnap, Bruno Leclercq, Sébastien Richard and Denis Seron (eds.), Berlin: de Gruyter, 2015, pp. 183-96.
"The Strange Worlds of Actual Consciousness and
the Purely Logical", New Yearbook for
Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy (Abingdon: Routledge), Burt Hopkins (ed.), vol.XIII, 2013, pp. 62-83.
"Husserlian Sets or Fregean Sets?", Notae Philosophicae Scientiae Formalis,
vol. 2, n. 1, p. 22 - 32, maio 2013.
http://gcfcf.com.br/pt/files/2013/07/Hill-Claire-Ortiz-NPSF-vol.2-n.1.pdf
"Cantor's Paradise, Metaphysics and
Husserlian Logic", Categories of
Being, Essays on
Metaphysics and Logic, H. Koskinen (ed.),
Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012, chapter 10, pp. 217-40.
"Tracking the Logos", Axiomathes, An International Journal in Ontology and
Cognitive Systems, vol. 22, no. 1, online
since June 20, 2011, (DOI) 10.1007/s10516-011-9163-y.
"On the Porch," "By the Sea" and "Out of the
Ravine", Somos en escrito, December 2010-January 2011. http://www.somosenescrito.blogspot.com (For information about Somos en
escrito see: http://somosenescrito.blogspot.com/2010/02/bienvenidos.html)
"On Fundamental Differences Between Dependent and
Independent Meanings", Axiomathes, An
International Journal in Ontology and Cognitive
Systems 20: 2-3, online since May 29,
2010, 313-32, (DOI 10.1007/s10516-010-9104-1).
"Husserl on Axiomatization and Arithmetic",
Phenomenology and
Mathematics, Mirja Hartimo (ed.)
Phaenomenologica series, Dordrecht: Springer, 2010, pp. 47-71.
"Review of Cantor et la
France, by Anne-Marie Décaillot",
History and Philosophy of
Logic 31:1, February 2010, 99-100.
"Husserl and Phenomenology,
Experience and Essence", Phenomenology and Existentialism, Dordrecht: Springer, 2009, 9-22.
"La Mannigfaltigkeitslehre de
Husserl", Philosophiques, Revue de la Société de
Philosophie du Québec 36, 2,
Automne 2009, 447-65.
"Review of The Fullness
of the Logos by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka",
Phenomenological Inquiry, October 2009, 99-108.
"Frank Valencia Ortiz Talks About His Life",
La Herencia, The Heritage and History That
is New Mexico, Fall 2008, 23-25.
"Phenomenology from the
Metaphysical Standpoint", Dialogos, XLIII, no. 91,
January, 2008, 19-35.
"Descendents of Benito Anselmo Larragoiti and
Feliciana Valdes y Garcia de Noriega", Herencia, The Quarterly Journal of the Hispanic
Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico, Vol. 16, Issue 4, October 2008, 31-42.
"Captain Manuel Francisco Delgado y de Chavarria
Butron's Maternal Line", Herencia, The
Quarterly Journal of the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New
Mexico, Vol. 15, Issue 3, July 2007,
15-20.
"On the Ancestry of Maria Josefa Garcia de Noriega
y Velarde Cosio de Delgado", Herencia, The
Quarterly Journal of the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New
Mexico, Vol. 15, Issue 1, January 2007,
38-46.
"One Dogma of Empiricism", 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,
30-38.
"Review of E. Husserl's Logik, Vorlesung (1896), and
Logik, Vorlesung (1902/03)," The Review of Modern
Logic, Volume 10, nos. 1 & 2
(September 2004-February 2005) Issue 31, 145-54.
"Review of E. Husserl's Alte und Neue Logik 1908/09",
History and Philosophy of
Logic, 26 (2005), 159-62.
"Abstraction and Idealization in Georg Cantor and
Edmund Husserl", in 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, 2004, 217-43
"Reference and Paradox", in Synthese, 138,2, January 2004,
207-32.
"Incomplete Symbols, Dependent Meanings, and
Paradox", in Husserl's Logical
Investigations, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (ed.),
Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003, 69-93.
"Review of E. Husserl's Allgemeine Erkenntnistheorie (1902/03),
Vorlesung," History and Philosophy of Logic 24 (2003), 76-78.
"Review of W. Demopoulos'
Frege's Philosophy of
Mathematics and W.W. Tait's Early Analytic Philosophy", Synthese 133, 2002, 441-52.
"On Husserl's Mathematical Apprenticeship and
Philosophy of Mathematics", Phenomenology
World Wide, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed.),
Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2002, 76-92.
"Tackling Three of Frege's Problems: Edmund
Husserl on Sets and Manifolds", Axiomathes 13: 79-104,
2002.
"Husserl, Frege and 'the Paradox', Manuscrito, Revista Internacional de
Filosofia 23, 2, October 2000,
101-32.
"Review of Dallas Willard's Translation of
Edmund Husserl's Early Writings in the
Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics",
Modern Logic 8,
1-2, January 1998-April 2000, 142-53, consultable at: http://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.rml/1081878073
"Review of The New Theory of Reference, P.
Humphreys and J. Fetzer (ed.)", History and
Philosophy of Logic 20, 1999,
125-27.
"Circling Gottlob Frege, Review of Frege Importance and Legacy, M.
Schirn (ed.)", Diálogos, January 1999,
203-13.
"Review of Hao Wang's A
Logical Journey, From Gödel to Philosophy", Diálogos, 34, July 1999,
179-81.
"Review of Edmund Husserl's
Logik und allgemeine
Wissenschaftslehre (Husserliana vol. 30)",
History and Philosophy of
Logic 19, 1998, 115-17.
"From Empirical Psychology
to Phenomenology: Husserl on the Brentano Puzzle", The Brentano Puzzle, R. Poli
(ed.), Ashgate, Aldershot, 1998, 151-68.
"Did Georg Cantor Influence
Edmund Husserl?", Synthese 113, October 1997,
145-70.
"The Varied Sorrows of Logical
Abstraction", 10th Anniversary Issue of
Axiomathes,
Centro Studi per la Filsofia Mitteleuropa, Trento, Italy, 1997,
53-82.
"Compte Rendu de Modalities par Ruth Barcan
Marcus", Revue internationale de
philosophie, 2/1997, 278-80.
"Review of Frege, an
introduction to the founder of modern analytic
philosophy by Anthony Kenny",
History and Philosophy of
Logic 17, 1996, 85-86.
"Review of Logik und
Mathematik, Frege Kolloquium Jena 1993",
History and Philosophy of
Logic 17, 1996, 105-08.
"Some Keys to Understanding Husserl's Philosophy
of Mathematics," Proceedings of the Fourth
International Symposium on Logic and its Applications, Sofia, 1996.
"Frege's Letters", From
Dedekind to Gödel, Essays on the Development of the Foundations
of Mathematics, J. Hintikka (ed.), Kluwer,
Dordrecht, 1995, 97-118.
"Husserl and Hilbert on
Completeness", From Dedekind to Gödel, Essays on the Development of
the Foundations of Mathematics, J.
Hintikka (ed.), Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1995, 143-63. Reprinted in
Edmund Husserl, Critical Assessments of
Leading Philosophers, volume 2, prt. 2,
Donn Welton (ed), London: Routledge, 2004.
"Frege Attacks Husserl and
Cantor", The
Monist 77 (3), 1994, 347-57.
"Husserl and Frege on
Substitutivity", Mind, Meaning and
Mathematics, Essays on the Philosophical
Views of Husserl and Frege, L. Haaparanta
(ed.), Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1994, 113-40.
"De-intensionalization and Radical Information
Loss", Proceedings of the Third
International Symposium on Logic and its Applications, Sofia, 1994.
"Review of Logic and the
Objectivity of Knowledge by Dallas
Willard", Review of
Metaphysics, June 1986, 790-92.
"Review of Husserl and
Frege by J. N. Mohanty", Review of Metaphysics, June
1985, 895-96.
"Review of Husserl on Intentionality by R.
McIntyre and David W. Smith", Review of
Metaphysics, September 1984,
143-44.
Invited Papers Read
"Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form and Husserl's 'Strange World of the Purely Logical,'" paper given on August 4, 2022 at the Laws of Form Conference 2022 held at Liverpool University from August 3-7, 2022.
"Husserl's Purely Logical Chastity Belt," paper
given at the workshop on Constructive Semantics, Meaning in between
Phenomenology and Constructivism organized by Christina Weiss and held
from September 30, 2016 – October 1, 2016 at Zeppelin
Universität in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
"Husserlian Sets or Fregean Sets?", paper given at
the XVI Coloquio Conesul de Filosofia das Ciencias Formais, Teoria
dos Conjuntos/Mereologia, November 6-10, 2012, Santa Maria/RS,
Brazil.
"I Loved You for Your Beauty..." International
Conference on Objects and Pseudo-Objects. Ontological Deserts and
Jungles from Meinong to Carnap, University of Liège, May
15-16, 2012.
"The Strange Worlds of Actual Consciousness and of
the Purely Logical," International Seminar on Contemporary Readings
of Husserl’s Erfahrung und
Urteil, Lisbon, April 23-27, 2012,
organized by Pedro M. S. Alves and Carlos Morujão.
"Manuel Francisco Delgado's Paternal Line
(1574-1766)", Meeting of the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 8, 2010.
"Phenomenology from the
Metaphysical Standpoint", Semana de
Fenomenologia, University of Puerto Rico, October 14-17, 2008.
"Husserl and Phenomenology,
Experience and Essence", Fourth
International Congress of Phenomenology held in Cracow, Poland from
August 17-21, 2008.
"Husserl on Axiomatization and Arithmetic, or What
Numbers Could Not Be", Colloquium on Phenomenology and Mathematics
organized by Mirja Hartimo and held at the University of Tampere,
Finland in May 2007.
"Metaphysics and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy and
Phenomenology," Twenty lectures given at
the University of Tampere, October 3- 6, 2005.
"One Dogma of Empiricism", Experience and Analysis, Erfahrung und
Analyse at the International Wittgenstein
Conference on held in Kirchberg am Wechsel in August
2004.
"Symboles incomplets, significations
dépendantes et Widersinnigkeiten", Thème: Recherches
Catégoriales: Autour de la Logique de Husserl, Deux
journées d'études organisées par les
Archives-Husserl de Paris, en coopération avec
l'Université Keio, les 27 et 28. avril 2001 à l'Ecole
Normale Supérieure, coordinateurs Jocelyn Benoist, Mitsurhiro
Okada.
"Les paradoxes ensemblistes et les malheurs de la
logique modale", 17. janvier 2000, Institut d'histoire et philosophie
des sciences de l'Université de Paris I, Philippe de Rouilhan,
directeur.
"La Mannigfaltigkeitslehre de
Husserl", Centre de Recherches
Phénoménologiques des Facultés St Louis,
à Bruxelles, décembre 1998, Robert Brisart responsable
du Colloque sur la Généalogie de la Logique.
"From Empirical Psychology
to Phenomenology", Roberto Poli, Istituto
Mitteleuropeo di Cultura, Université de Trente, Italie, "The
Brentano Puzzle: At the Origins of the Contemporary Idea of Exact
Philosophy", Bolzano, Italy, 14-16 novembre 1996.
"Some Keys to Understanding the Husserl's
Philosophy of Mathematics", The Fourth International Symposium on
Logic and its Applications, June 1996, Varna, Bulgarie, organized by
Boris Chendov.
"Husserl's Mannigfaltigkeitslehre", June
2,1995, Ecole Polytechnique, Séminaire CREA/ENS
"Phénoménologie, Cognition et Morphodynamique", Jean
Petitot responsable.
"Husserl and Hilbert on Completeness", 5-7 April
1992, Development of the Foundations of Mathematics from 1850-1930,
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science, Boston University,
Jaakko Hintikka and Robert S. Cohen, organizers.
Published Translations of Philosophical
Works
My translation of Edmund Husserl's Logic and General Theory of Science (Logik und allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, Husserliana XXX), Springer Verlag, 2019.
Translation into French of The Fullness of the Logos in the Key of
Life by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.
La Plénitude du Logos dans le
registre de la vie, Paris: L'Harmattan,
2011.
Introduction to Logic and Theory of
Knowledge, translation of Edmund Husserl's
Einleitung in die Logik und
Erkenntnistheorie (Husserliana XXIV),
Dordrecht: Springer, 2008. (Volume XIII of the Collected Works of Husserl of
the Husserl Archives in Leuven, Belgium). Read my Introduction. See the Index.
Translation of Paul Linke's "Frege als Philosoph",
The Brentano Puzzle, R. Poli (ed.), Ashgate, Aldershot, 1998.
Translation of Dagfinn Føllesdal's "Husserl
und Frege, ein Beitrag zur Beleuchtung der Enstehung der
phänomenologischen Philosophie", Mind,
Meaning and Mathematics, Essays on the Philosophical Views of Husserl
and Frege, L. Haaparanta (ed.), Dordrecht,
Kluwer, 1994.
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