Edmund Husserl, founder of the phenomenological movement, is usually readas an idealist in his metaphysics and an instrumentalist in his philosophy ofscience. In Nature's Suit, Lee Hardy argues that both views represent a seriousmisreading of Husserl's texts.Drawing upon the full range of Husserl's major published works togetherwith material from Husserl's unpublished manuscripts, Hardy develops a consistentinterpretation of Husserl's conception of logic as a theory of science, hisphenomenological account of truth and rationality, his ontology of the physicalthing and mathematical objectivity, his account of the process of idealization inthe physical sciences, and his approach to the phenomenological clarificationand critique of scientific knowledge. Offering a jargon-free explanation of thebasic principles of Husserl's phenomenology, Nature's Suit provides an excellentintroduction to the philosophy of Edmund Husserl as well as a focusedexamination of his potential contributions to the philosophy of science.While the majority of research on Husserl's philosophy of the sciences focuseson the critique of science in his late work, The Crisis of European Sciences, LeeHardy covers the entire breadth of Husserl's reflections on science in a systematicfashion, contextualizing Husserl's phenomenological critique to demonstrate thatit is entirely compatible with the theoretical dimensions of contemporary science.LEE HARDY is a professor of philosophy at Calvin College, Grand Rapids,Michigan. He is the author of The Fabric of This World, coeditor of Phenomenologyof Natural Science, and the translator of Edmund Husserl's The Idea ofPhenomenology in the Collected Works of Edmund Husserl."Lee Hardy's study of Husserl is an outstanding achievement. The argumentationis crisp and clear throughout, and the discussion of primary and secondarytexts is lucid and detailed. Above all, he makes a very good case foran important point that is highly relevant to the current resurgence of interestin phenomenology. Against the tendency of many other interpretations, heshows how Husserl's phenomenology is in principle compatible with a realisticunderstanding of modern scientific theories." —Karl Ameriks,McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dam