Claire Ortiz Hill has always been an independent scholar. She holds a BA and an MA from the University of California, Riverside and a Maîtrise and Doctorat from the University of Paris, Sorbonne. Her research interests lie primarily in the fields of Husserl's philosophy of logic and mathematics, the Austro-German roots of twentieth-century philosophy, and related issues in Analytic philosophy. She has published: The Roots of Twentieth Century Philosophy in Husserl, Frege and Russell; Rethinking Identity and Metaphysics, On the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy; The Roots and Flowers of Evil in Baudelaire, Nietzsche and Hitler; Husserl or Frege, Meaning, Objectivity and Mathematics with G. Rosado Haddock, The Road Not Taken, On Husserl's Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics with J. da Silva and over 60 papers.

Presents a translation of Edmund Husserl's Logik und allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, a collection of lectures on the philosophy of logic and science

Answers many questions about the development of Husserl's thought

Sheds new light on many important issues in contemporary philosophy

Chapter 1. Acquiring the Idea of Pure Logic as Pure Theory of Norms for Knowledge.- Chapter 2. Clarification of the Ideas Thought-act and Thought-meaning.- Chapter 3. Formal Logic and Theory of Forms of Meanings.- Chapter 4. The Most General Characteristics of the Structure of Meanings.- Chapter 5. Preliminary Remarks about the Systematic Theory of Forms of Meanings.- Chapter 6. Propositionally Simple Judgments.- Chapter 7. The Propositionally Complex Judgment-Forms.- Chapter 8. The Cardinal Differences within the Field of Meaning.- Chapter 9. Inferences and Proofs as Judgment-Units.- Chapter 10. The Field of the Theory of Probability.- Chapter 11. The Pure Theory of Manifolds as Science of the Possible Forms of Deductive Theories in General.- Chapter 12. Broadening the Idea of the Theory of Science beyond Analytics.- Chapter 13. The Idea of Noetics.