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A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s ................................... This book has been a long time coming, and so has accumulated a fair number of debts of gratitude along the way. Reaching back to the early period of my philosophical formation, I should like to thank a number of my former professors: Lester Embree, John Scanlon, Joseph Kockelmans, and Elisabeth Ströker, from whom I learned much about Husserl; and Larry Laudan, Carl Hempel, Wilfrid Sellars, and Kenneth Schaffner, from whom I learned much about the philosophy of science. I should also like to thank my colleagues at Calvin College. A number of the chapters of this work went through the dreaded Tuesday Colloquium of the philosophy department at Calvin College. The criticisms received there were to the point, usually helpful, and always delivered in a spirit of trust and friendship. I would be remiss if I did not pick out Del Ratzsch and Stephen Wykstra—both philosophers of science—for special thanks. John Van Dyke, of the physics department of the University of Illinois, reviewed the entire manuscript. I am grateful for his perceptive comments. Thanks are also due to a number of colleagues across the Atlantic: to Ursala Panzer of the Husserl Archives at the University of Köln; to Elisabeth Ströker again, but this time as my host at the University of Köln during a sabbatical stay; to Ullrich Melle, present director of the Husserl Archives, for permission to make use of material from the unpublished manuscripts of Husserl; and to Rochus Sowa of the Husserl Archives, for his careful and thorough review of the unpublished material I incorporated into my text. A couple of institutions are also on my thank-you list: Springer Science+Business Media B.V ., for kind permission to publish a revised version of my article “The Idea of Science in Husserl and the Tradition,” which appeared in Phenomenology of Natural Science, edited by Lee Hardy and Lester E. Embree (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1992), 1–34. That piece appears as x acknowledgments chapter 1 in this volume. My thanks also to the National Endowment for the Humanities for a Travel to Collections grant in support of my sabbatical work at the Husserl Archives in Köln, Germany; and to the Calvin College Alumni Association for a faculty research grant in support of the same endeavor. ...

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