Husserl paper in progress

In addition to the paper on Moore mentioned in my previous post, I am also working on an interpretation of Edmund Husserl's The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. The Crisis is Husserl's last and unfinished work, and it combines phenomenology, epistemology, philosophy of science, and history of philosophy. I plan to have a draft done by the end of August. Here is an abstract for the paper:

Abstract: In The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Edmund Husserl claims that European culture faces an intellectual and cultural crisis. In this paper, I show that the Crisis has two parts, which I call the “Galilean crisis” and the “grounding crisis”. These crises result from two projects, which I call the “Galilean project” and the “Greek project”. The Galilean project is an effort to construct a purely mathematical model of the natural world. The Galilean crisis consists in our inability to reconcile this purely mathematical model with the life-world, the world of lived experience. The Greek project is an effort to establish objective knowledge through reason. In its extreme form, the Greek project actually undermines the possibility of scientific knowledge. This undermining of reason is the grounding crisis. At the end of the paper, I discuss the lesson that Husserl intends for us to draw, i.e. the way in which European culture must change its thinking in order to avoid the above-mentioned crises.

If you are interested in reading the draft, please email me or (if you don't have my email address) post a comment here.