The articles collected in the present volume were written during a period of more than 30 years, the ?rst having been published in 1929, the last in 1961.
Kersten wrote his dissertation under Gurwitsch as well as Dorion Cairns, translated Husserl’s Ideen I, and contributed to phenomenology for decades.
Some Aspects and Developments of Gestalt Psychology.- The Place of Psychology in the System of Sciences.- Goldstein’s Conception of Biological Science.- The Phenomenological and the Psychological Approach to Consciousness.- Critical Study of Husserl’s Nachwort.- The Problem of Existence in Constitutive Phenomenology.- On the Intentionality of Consciousness.- On the Object of Thought.- The Kantian and Husserlian Conceptions of Consciousness.- Phenomenology of Thematics and of the Pure Ego: Studies of the Relation Between Gestalt Theory and Phenomenology.- A Non-Egological Conception of Consciousness.- William James’s Theory of the “Transitive Parts” of the Stream of Consciousness.- Contribution to the Phenomenological Theory of Perception.- Philosophical Presuppositions of Logic.- Gelb–Goldstein’s Concept of “Concrete” and “Categorial” Attitude and the Phenomenology of Ideation.- On a Perceptual Root of Abstraction.- On the Conceptual Consciousness.- The Last Work of Edmund Husserl.