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This doctoral dissertation is dedicated to a phenomenological analysis of anticipation, habit, and probability at the level of perception, based on the philosophy of Edmund Husserl. The objective is to explain, through Husserl's phenomenological analyses of perception, how habit and anticipation can be regarded as origins of probabilistic reasoning. In light of these insights, the dissertation offers a phenomenological interpretation of probability as a novel alternative to the main philosophical interpretations of the term. The first step is to gaina better understanding of perceptual cognitive activity, with a focus on the constitutive role of anticipation and habit for perceiving identical external objects of everyday experience. Building on this, the dissertation shows that the mutual dynamics of anticipation and habit at the level of passive synthesis in perception is constitutive for basic forms of perceptual probability estimates. Using this insight, the dissertation argues tha...

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