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Physics with a human face: Husserl and Weyl on realism, idealism, and the nature of the coordinate system
Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Philosophy and Applied Ethics. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. (Philosophy and Applied Ethics)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9560-0284
2022 (English)In: The Husserlian mind / [ed] Hanne Jacobs, London and New York: Routledge, 2022, p. 468-479Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The aim of this chapter is to give an idea of how the Husserlian mind had at least an indirect impact on contemporary physics by influencing the thinking of Hermann Weyl, one of the most prolific mathematicians and theoretical physicists of the twentieth century. I will take a closer look at Husserl’s notorious annihilation of the world thought experiment in order to elucidate Hermann Weyl’s remark that the coordinate system ought to be understood as the necessary residuum of the annihilation of the ego. By doing so, I will not only show how Weyl made creative use of central components of Husserl’s phenomenological methodology to better understand the nature of mathematical representation in physics. Ultimately, the upshot of this chapter is that on Weyl’s view, the perspectivity, and subject-relativity of every symbolic-mathematical representation of reality is not just an artifact of interpretation, it is indeed mandated by physics itself.

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London and New York: Routledge, 2022. p. 468-479
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Husserl, Weyl, Physics, Coordinate System, Realism, Idealism
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-178691ISI: 000891025300037Libris ID: n3vht2nll3zwxw3wISBN: 9780367198671 (print)ISBN: 9780429243790 (electronic)ISBN: 9780429513510 (electronic)ISBN: 9780429516948 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-178691DiVA, id: diva2:1588467
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Funding Agencies|Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P 31758]

Available from: 2021-08-27 Created: 2021-08-27 Last updated: 2025-10-14Bibliographically approved

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