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Moral action, a phenomenological studyRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 177 (2): 224-227. 1985.
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32Knowing EssentialsReview of Metaphysics 47 (4). 1994.WE OFTEN USE PHRASES like, "knowing the essence of a thing" or "getting to the essence of a thing," but such expressions may be misleading and may provoke unfortunate epistemological problems. They suggest that we somehow extract an essence from the thing and make it, like a new thing, the target of our knowledge. They suggest a kind of vision, acquisition, or possession of the essence itself. If we have such a picture in mind when we speak of knowing an essence, many problems ensue that make us…Read more
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102Transcendental PhenomenologyThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 7 233-241. 2000.Transcendental phenomenology is the mind’s self-discovery in the presence of intelligible objects. I differentiate the phenomenological sense of “transcendental” from its scholastic and Kantian senses, and show how the transcendental dimension cannot be eliminated from human discourse. I try to clarify the difference between prephilosophical uses of reason and the phenomenological use, and I suggest that the method followed by transcendental phenomenology is the working out of strategic distinct…Read more
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7Studien zur Arithmetik und Geometrie. Texte aus dem Nachlass, 1886-1901 (review)Review of Metaphysics 38 (3): 639-640. 1985.This volume is meant to bring to a close the posthumous edition of the works of Husserl that date from the period prior to Logical Investigations. As such it complements volumes 12 and 22 of Husserliana. It is divided into two major parts; the first deals with arithmetical and the second with geometric issues.
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60Exorcising conceptsReview of Metaphysics 40 (3): 451-463. 1987.FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE says that a word is composed of two parts, a sound-image and a concept: "The linguistic sign unites not a thing and a name, but a concept and an acoustic image." The sound-image signifies the concept: the sound-image is the signifier, the concept is the signified. De Saussure is only one of a large company of thinkers who describe words in this way. Most philosophical and semiotic analyses of words claim that words have two components, a dimension of sounds and a dimension …Read more
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43Phänomenologie der phänomenologie. Systematik und methodologie der phänomenologie in der auseinadersetzung zwischen Husserl und FinkHusserl Studies 21 (3): 257-261. 2005.
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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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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.
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |