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34James 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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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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127Introduction 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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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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30Parts 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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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
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |