The twelve original studies collected in this volume examine different aspects of Edmund Husserl's Logical Investigations. They are authored by scholars and specialists internationally recognized for their expertise in the fields of phenomenology, logic, history of philosophy and philosophy of mind. They approach Husserl's groundwork from different angles and perspectives and shed new light on a number of issues such as meaning, intentionality, ontology, logic, etc. They also explore questions such as the place of the Logical Investigations within the whole (...) of Husserl's work, its sources in 19th century philosophy and in particular in the philosophical work of Franz Brentano and Bernard Bolzano, its reception amongst the so-called members of the Munich Circle and its influence on contemporary philosophy. In short, this volume constitutes a "companion" to Husserl's Logical Investigations. (shrink)

According to Gerda Walther, a community arises only if positive feelings, which she calls inner unification, eliminate hostilities among people. There are two objections to this claim, which one can develop from Aron Gurwitsch’s critical examination of Walther’s account. The present paper aims to respond to those objections and, through this, to clarify her account of community. To this end, the author deals with Walther’s brief remark on a “pathological” form of community and her accounts of inner unification. Considering those (...) two factors, the author further shows that Walther’s idea is more plausible than it initially may appear. Contrary to what Gurwitsch seems to think, her account of communities allows for conflict and even certain types of hostility within a community. (shrink)

In the present issue of this Journal, Stephen Braude summarized the enigmatic case of Brazilian medium Carlos Mirabelli, who, like many other physical mediums, was hailed as an outstanding genuine medium by some, and regarded as a complete fraud by others. In this article, I present an overview on two aspects of the Mirabelli mediumship. First, I introduce historical material that relates to the context of the somewhat famous visit of biologist and philosopher Hans Driesch at Mirabelli’s in 1928, along (...) with a few comments from my side; and I will then present two apparently little known accounts of sittings that Mirabelli held in 1930 and 1935 in New York. A Commentary on Hans Driesch’s Sitting with Carlos Mirabelli in 1928 After Albert von Schrenck-Notzing published a German summary of a Portuguese book entitled “O Medium Mirabelli” (Mikulasch 1926; Schrenck-Notzing 1927), discussions about Mirabelli commenced in Germany. For example, in a radio talk held on December 13, 1927, Max Dessoir stated that he received a letter from a woman who claimed that Mirabelli, who was now often discussed in periodicals, was already exposed as swindler. According to this woman, Mirabelli was caught faking during a sitting her husband attended – but apparently, no further details were given. This commentary by Dessoir was cited in an article of Christoph Schröder (1928), then editor of the German parapsychological journal Zeitschrift für Psychische Forschung. Schröder, who was on unfriendly terms with Dessoir, then presented a summary of the Mirabelli sitting on August 2, 1928 – the “famous” sitting that Hans Driesch had attended when he visited Brazil and Argentina (Driesch 1930, 1951; see also Braude, this issue). Schröder’s article contained the rather short séance protocol, the text of which was provided by Bernardo Pritze, a German-born director of the exchange department of the Transatlantic German Bank in Sao Paulo (de Goes 1937, p. 210), in whose small villa in a suburb of Sao Paulo the sitting took place (Figure 1). Pritze added a few personal remarks on the events witnessed. (shrink)