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155Measure-taking: meaning and normativity in Heidegger’s philosophy (review)Continental Philosophy Review 41 (3): 261-276. 2008.Following Marc Richir and others, László Tengelyi has recently developed the idea of Sinnereignis (meaning-event) as a way of capturing the emergence of meaning that does not flow from some prior project or constitutive act. As such, it might seem to pose something of a challenge to phenomenology: the paradox of an experience that is mine without being my accomplishment. This article offers a different sort of interpretation of meaning-events, claiming that in their structure they always involve…Read more
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105Why is Ethics First Philosophy? Levinas in Phenomenological ContextEuropean Journal of Philosophy 20 (4): 564-588. 2012.This paper explores, from a phenomenological perspective, the conditions necessary for the possession of intentional content, i.e., for being intentionally directed toward the world. It argues that Levinas's concept of ethics as first philosophy makes an important contribution to this task. Intentional directedness, as understood here, is normatively structured. Levinas's ‘ethics’ can be understood as a phenomenological account of how our experience of the other subject as another subject takes …Read more
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15Comment On Manuel Davenport’s “Poetry, Truth, and Phenomenology”Southwest Philosophy Review 2 174-179. 1985.
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99Subjectivity: Locating the first-person in being and timeInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 44 (4). 2001.It is often held that, in contrast to Husserl, Heidegger's account of intentionality makes no essential reference to the first- person stance. This paper argues, on the contrary, that an account of the first- person, or 'subjectivity', is crucial to Heidegger's account of intelligibility and so of the intentionality, or 'aboutness' of our acts and thoughts, that rests upon it. It first offers an argument as to why the account of intelligibility in Division I of Being and Time, based on a form of…Read more
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53Phenomenology, Meaning, and MeasurePhilosophy Today 60 (1): 237-252. 2016.This paper responds to comments by Maxime Doyon and Thomas Sheehan on aspects of my book, Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Among the topics discussed are the relations between phenomenology and analytic philosophy, the difference between a Brentanian and an Husserlian approach to intentional content, the normative structure of the intentional content of noetic states such as thinking and imagining, the implications of taking a phenomenolo…Read more
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59The Last Best Hope: Simon Glendinning: In the name of phenomenology. Routledge Press, New York, 2007, 280 pp, ISBN: 0415223385Continental Philosophy Review 45 (2): 311-324. 2012.The Last Best Hope Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-14 DOI 10.1007/s11007-012-9221-1 Authors Steven Crowell, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Journal Continental Philosophy Review Online ISSN 1573-1103 Print ISSN 1387-2842.
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32Review of Marcus Brainard, Belief and its Neutralization: Husserl's System of Phenomenology in Ideas I (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (5). 2002.
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30Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and HeideggerCambridge University Press. 2013.Steven Crowell has been for many years a leading voice in debates on twentieth-century European philosophy. This volume presents thirteen recent essays that together provide a systematic account of the relation between meaningful experience and responsiveness to norms. They argue for a new understanding of the philosophical importance of phenomenology, taking the work of Husserl and Heidegger as exemplary, and introducing a conception of phenomenology broad enough to encompass the practices of b…Read more
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42Günter Figal’s Objectivity: From Transcendental to Hermeneutical PhenomenologyResearch in Phenomenology 44 (1): 121-134. 2014.
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11Editors' PrefaceNew Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 1 (1): 7-8. 2001.
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16Comment On Manuel Davenport’s “Poetry, Truth, and Phenomenology”Southwest Philosophy Review 2 174-179. 1985.
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160Sorge or Selbstbewußtsein? Heidegger and Korsgaard on the Sources of NormativityEuropean Journal of Philosophy 15 (3): 315-333. 2007.
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84Phenomenology, Meaning, and MeasurePhilosophy Today 60 (1): 237-252. 2016.This paper responds to comments by Maxime Doyon and Thomas Sheehan on aspects of my book, Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger. Among the topics discussed are the relations between phenomenology and analytic philosophy, the difference between a Brentanian and an Husserlian approach to intentional content, the normative structure of the intentional content of noetic states such as thinking and imagining, the implications of taking a phenomenological approach to Heidegger’s conce…Read more
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44Transcendental Phenomenology and the Seductions of Naturalism: Subjectivity, Consciousness, and MeaningIn Dan Zahavi (ed.), The Oxford handbook of contemporary phenomenology, Oxford University Press. 2012.This paper introduces phenomenology as a distinctive form of transcendental philosophy by exploring a problem that arises with the phenomenological concept of “constitution,” namely, the “paradox of human subjectivity” – the idea that under the transcendental reduction the human subject is both a entity in the world and the ground of all such constitution. Focusing on the question of what conditions must obtain for something to be the bearer of normatively structured intentional content, the pap…Read more
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27Review: Stern, Understanding Moral Obligation. Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard (review)Philosophy in Review 33 (5): 410-414. 2013.
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254Phenomenological immanence, normativity, and semantic externalismSynthese 160 (3). 2008.This paper argues that transcendental phenomenology (here represented by Edmund Husserl) can accommodate the main thesis of semantic externalism, namely, that intentional content is not simply a matter of what is ‘in the head,’ but depends on how the world is. I first introduce the semantic problem as an issue of how linguistic tokens or mental states can have ‘content’—that is, how they can set up conditions of satisfaction or be responsive to norms such that they can succeed or fail at referri…Read more
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53Husserl’s existentialism: ideality, traditions, and the historical aprioriContinental Philosophy Review 49 (1): 67-83. 2016.Husserl’s concept of an “historical apriori” is marked by a tension: It simultaneously departs from, and develops his long-standing commitment to philosophy as transcendental phenomenology. This paper looks at some reasons for this tension in the context of Husserl’s attempt to determine philosophy as a “tradition” in The Origin of Geometry. Husserl is convinced that philosophy is a scientific tradition, and the historical apriori serves in the analysis of the conditions that define a distinctiv…Read more
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2The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy I (edited book)Routledge. 2001._The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy_ provides an annual international forum for phenomenological research in the spirit of Husserl's groundbreaking work and the extension of this work by such figures as Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer.
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Value Theory |