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32James Hart. Who One Is. Book I: Meontology of the “I”; A Transcendental Phenomenology. Phaenomenologica 189. New York: Springer, 2009. Pp. xvi‐566. Who One Is. Book II: Existenz and Transcendental Phenomenology. Phaenomenologica 190. New York: Springer, 2009. Pp. xviii‐649 (review)Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 41 (2): 277-281. 2010.
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51Roman Ingarden, On the Motives which Led Husserl to Transcendental Idealism (review)Journal of Philosophy 74 (3): 176-180. 1977.
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178Introduction to PhenomenologyCambridge University Press. 1999.This book presents the major philosophical doctrines of phenomenology in a clear, lively style with an abundance of examples. The book examines such phenomena as perception, pictures, imagination, memory, language, and reference, and shows how human thinking arises from experience. It also studies personal identity as established through time and discusses the nature of philosophy. In addition to providing a new interpretation of the correspondence theory of truth, the author also explains how p…Read more
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127The logic of parts and wholes in Husserl's investigationsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 28 (4): 537-553. 1968.
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31QuotationReview of Metaphysics 37 (4). 1984.QUOTATION is not merely repetition, even though it involves repeating what someone else has said. Quotation is repeating something as having been stated by another. The difference is one of presentational or intentional form. There may be no difference in the words being repeated, but they are repeated differently: it is as though we no longer saw an object directly but now only in a mirror.
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30Die Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phänomenologie. Ergänzungsband. Texte aus dem Nachlass 1934-1937 (review)Review of Metaphysics 48 (4): 900-902. 1995.For all these reasons, it is helpful to have a volume such as the one under review, which gives the historical and textual background for Crisis. Ably edited by Reinhold N. Smid, who has been associated with the Husserl Archives at Cologne for many years, the volume contains papers from the period 1934-37, just before Husserl's death in 1938. Crisis itself was published in its present form only posthumously in 1954, but its first two parts appeared in the journal Philosophia, published in Belgra…Read more
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Presence and Absence, A Philosophical Investigation of Language and BeingRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 169 (4): 462-462. 1979.
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85Making DistinctionsReview of Metaphysics 32 (4). 1979.Distinctions are set in obscurity and imagination. Distinctions are not made anywhere and anytime, nor are they made in no place and at no time; they are made in a situation in which they are called for. Distinctions push against an obscurity that needs the distinction in question. In the story about Jack and the doctor, the obscurity against which the distinction is made is included as part of the story; in the quotation from Chaucer the obscurity that provides the setting for the distinction i…Read more
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41The Question of BeingReview of Metaphysics 43 (4). 1990.EVERYONE IS INVOLVED in the question of being in one way or another. When we ask someone how to change the oil in an automobile, or what the diameter of the moon is, or how numbers are different from numerals, we are asking about being. Such interrogations, whether addressed to others or addressed by ourselves to ourselves, are particular questions about beings. But when as metaphysicians we raise the question of being, we do not pursue just one more of these particular investigations. We ask a …Read more
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53Husserl on First PhilosophyIn Carlo Ierna, Hanne Jaccobs & Filip Mattens (eds.), PHILOSOPHY PHENOMENOLOGY SCIENCES, Springer. 2010.
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32Theology and DeconstructionTélos 1998 (110): 155-166. 1998.Catherine Pickstock's book is about Catholic liturgy. What does it have to do with political theory and philosophy? Telos has recently been concerned with the problem of modernity — especially its rationalism and the domination of the sovereign state. Both of these problems have come to the fore with the fall of the Soviet Union in the East and the rise of postmodernity in the West. These same problems have their counterparts in theology. Modernity and postmodernity have not left the churches un…Read more
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10Edmund Husserl and the Phenomenological Tradition: Essays in Phenomenology (edited book)Catholic University of America Press. 1988.Robert Sokolowski, a priest of the Archdiocese of Hartford, has taught philosophy at The Catholic University of America since 1963. He has written six books and numerous articles dealing with phenomenology, philosophy and Christian faith, moral philosophy, and issues in contemporary science. He has been an auxiliary chaplain at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., since 1976 and was named monsignor in 1993.
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Possibility, Necessity, and Existence: Abbagnano and His Predecessors (review)Interpretation 22 (2): 289-294. 1995.
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62Being and Number in Heidegger's ThoughtHistory and Philosophy of Logic 30 (2): 202-204. 2009.M. ROUBACH. Being and Number in Heidegger's Thought. Translation from the Hebrew by Nessa Olshansky-Ashtar. London and New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008. viii + 139 pp. £65.0...
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56Visual Intelligence in PaintingReview of Metaphysics 59 (2): 333-354. 2005.Philosophers have long agreed that thinking is expressed in the use of language, that we “think in the medium of words.” It is also true, however, that we think in the medium of pictures, and it is likely that these two ways of thinking are interrelated; certainly, we could not think in pictures if we did not have words, and perhaps we could not use words, in principle, unless we were also engaged in some sort of picturing, at least in our imagination. An ideographic language like Chinese would …Read more
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44The Logic of Parts and Wholes in Husserl's InvestigationsIn Jitendranath Mohanty (ed.), Readings on Edmund Husserl's Logical investigations, M. Nijhoff. pp. 94--111. 1977.
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182Husserl’s Discovery of Philosophical DiscourseHusserl Studies 24 (3): 167-175. 2008.Husserl’s Idea of Phenomenology is his first systematic attempt to show how phenomenology differs from natural science and in particular psychology. He does this by the phenomenological reduction. One of his achievements is to show that the formal structures of intentionality are more akin to logic than to psychology. I claim that Husserl’s argument can be made more intuitive if we consider phenomenology to be the study of truth rather than knowledge, and if we see the reduction as primarily a m…Read more
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24ReferringReview of Metaphysics 42 (1). 1988.WHEN WORDS APPEAR THEY INTERRUPT the dense continuity of things. Pictures do so as well, but in a different way. The things surrounding me form a dense continuum: my attention can move from one thing to another without leaving what is immediately there. I can go from the table to the rug to the chair to the lamp and to the wall. But if at some point I come to a picture, this plain sequence is broken, and although it may quickly be picked up again, it is interrupted by the picture. When I hit the…Read more
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45Dieter Lohmar, Edmund husserls 'formale und transzendentale logik'Husserl Studies 18 (3): 233-243. 2002.
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29Parts and Moments (review)Review of Metaphysics 38 (1): 140-142. 1984.This book explores a dimension in Husserl's thought that is, unfortunately, usually neglected, the analysis of formal structures in thinking. It examines such topics as formal ontology, formal logic, logic and mathematics, set theory, and, most of all, the theme of parts and wholes. Moreover the book does not just comment on Husserl's treatment of these topics; it pursues them as philosophical issues, shows how Husserl's position can be compared with that of other thinkers, and traces some of th…Read more
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102Matter, elements and substance in AristotleJournal of the History of Philosophy 8 (3): 263-288. 1970.
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55The Relation of Phenomenology and Thomistic Metaphysics to ReligionReview of Metaphysics 67 (3): 603-626. 2014.The first part of this essay presents Patrick Masterson’s exposition of the phenomenology of religion developed by Jean-Luc Marion, and his exposition of the Thomistic philosophy of religion. Masterson argues that phenomenology can be helpful as an analysis of faith and religious experience, but it remains within subjective immanence. It needs to be complemented by a metaphysical analysis that deals with causation and explanation, as Thomism does. The essay then makes three points: first, that p…Read more
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