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23XIII. Revisiting Sartre’s Ontology of Embodiment in Being and NothingnessIn Vesselin Petrov (ed.), Ontological Landscapes: Recent Thought on Conceptual Interfaces Between Science and Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 263-294. 2011.In Being and Nothingness (1943) Sartre includes a grounding-breaking chapter on ‘the body’ which treats of the body under three headings: ‘the body as being for-itself: facticity’, ‘the body-for-others’, and ‘the third ontological dimension of the body’. Sartre’s phenomenology of the body has, in general, been neglected. In this essay, I want to revisit Sartre’s conception of embodiment. I shall argue that Sartre, even more than Merleau-Ponty, is the phenomenologist par excellenc…Read more
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21A Case for Philosophical Pluralism: The Problem of IntentionalityRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 40 19-32. 1996.In what sense can we speak of pluralism regarding the philosophical traditions or styles crudely characterised as ‘Continental’ and ‘Analytic’? Do these traditions address the same philosophical problems in different ways, or pose different problems altogether? What, if anything, do these traditions share?
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21A Hundred Years of Phenomenology: Perspectives on a Philosophical Tradition (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 41 (3): 422-423. 2003.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 41.3 (2003) 422-423 [Access article in PDF] Robin Small, editor. A Hundred Years of Phenomenology: Perspectives on a Philosophical Tradition. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2001. Pp. xxix + 191. Cloth, $79.95.The stated aim of this collection of thirteen essays (mostly new—four are reprints) by philosophers resident in Australia is to offer selective perspectives on the phenomenological tradition, correc…Read more
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21Guest Editors' IntroductionInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 21 (3): 313-316. 2013.No abstract
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21Husserl’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Reading of the Crisis of European Sciences and Related ManuscriptsIn Danilo Manca, Elisa Magrì, Dermot Moran & Alfredo Ferrarin (eds.), Hegel and Phenomenology, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-27. 2019.In this paper I trace the revival of Hegel in France and Germany in the early twentieth century and point especially to the crucial role of phenomenology in incorporating Hegel into their mature transcendental philosophy. Indeed, Martin Heidegger was responsible for a significant revival of Hegel studies at the University of Freiburg, following his arrival there in 1928 as the successor to Husserl. Similarly, Husserl’s student, Fink characterised Husserl’s phenomenology in explicitly Hegelian te…Read more
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20Dialogues with Contemporary Continental Thinkers: Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Levinas, Herbert Marcuse, Stanislas Breton, Jacques Derrida. The Phenomenological Heritage, by Richard KearneyJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 16 (3): 307-310. 1985.
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19Husserl on Human Subjects as Sense-Givers and Sense-Apprehenders in a World of SignificanceDiscipline filosofiche. 25 (2): 9-34. 2015.Phenomenology begins from the recognition that human awareness is intentional, directed beyond itself at “objects” and “states of affairs” that it both intends as meaningful and encounters as already meaningful. Intentionality has too often been misconstrued as the manner in which external objects are represented in the mind or as the problem of the kind of relation that can hold between minds and things that do not even exist, are imaginary or even impossible. I contend that much of this discus…Read more
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18Diseccionando las experiencias mentales: las reflexiones fenomenológicas de Husserl sobre “Erlebnisen” en “Ideas”Investigaciones Fenomenológicas 5 13. 2021.No nos interesan las facticidades [Faktizitäten] de la conciencia y de sus cursos [Abläufe], pero sí los problemas esenciales [Wesensprobleme], que aquí habría que formular. En el presente artículo me centraré en las siguientes cuestiones: que hay de nuevo en las Ideas de Husserl la necesidad de una epoché trascendental o una reducción para acceder a la correlación noesis-noema la estructura compleja de Erlebnis intencional y algunos aspectos de noesis y noema las leyes eidéticas identificadas p…Read more
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17Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition (edited book)University of Notre Dame Press. 2006.The contributors cover a wide range of philosophical writers and texts to which the label “idealism” has been or might reasonably be attached. These include Plato, the Roman Stoics, the Neoplatonism of Plotinus, Augustinian Neoplatonism, Johannes Scottus Eriugena, the Arabic _Book of Causes_, George Berkeley, Immanuel Kant, and classical German idealism. "This is a rich, subtle, thought-provoking collection on central, though neglected topics in idealism and its history, offering fresh and impor…Read more
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16Phenomenology of Sociality: Discovering the ‘We’ (edited book)Routledge. 2015.Phenomenological accounts of sociality in Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Scheler, Schütz, Stein and many others offer powerful lines of arguments to recast current, predominantly analytic, discussions on collective intentionality and social cognition. Against this background, the aim of this volume is to reevaluate, critically and in contemporary terms, the rich phenomenological resources regarding social reality: the interpersonal, collective and communal aspects of the life-world. …Read more
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16Review of David R. Cerbone, Understanding Phenomenology (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (1). 2007.
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16Logical Investigations Volume 2Routledge. 2001.Edmund Husserl is the founder of phenomenology and the Logical Investigations is his most famous work. It had a decisive impact on twentieth century philosophy and is one of few works to have influenced both continental and analytic philosophy. This is the first time both volumes have been available in paperback. They include a new introduction by Dermot Moran, placing the Investigations in historical context and bringing out their contemporary philosophical importance. These editions include a …Read more
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15« Natura quadriformata » and the Beginnings of « Physiologia » in the Philosophy of John Scottus EriugenaBulletin de Philosophie Medievale 21 41-46. 1979.
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15Phenomenology of Life in a Dialogue Between Chinese and Occidental Philosophy: Analecta Husserliana, Vol. Xvii, Ed. A. T. Tymieniecka (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 18 (1): 90-92. 1987.
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15The Phenomenology of Embodied Subjectivity, Contributions to Phenomenology 71 (edited book)Springer. 2013.
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15Kant on IntuitionIn Sorin Baiasu & Alberto Vanzo (eds.), Kant and the Continental Tradition: Sensibility, Nature, and Religion, Routledge. 2020.This chapter begins with sketching briefly the emergence of intuition in rationalist philosophy. It focuses on the following problems: First, how are we to understand the defining characteristics of intuition in general, namely immediacy and singularity, and, furthermore, the characteristics of human intuition in particular, namely givenness, passivity and receptivity? Second, what, precisely, is given immediately in intuition? Third, in Immanuel Kant’s distinction between form and content, how …Read more
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15Edmund Husserl’s Letter to Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, 11 March 1935New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 8 325-354. 2008.
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15Eriugena (review)Review of Metaphysics 44 (1): 156-157. 1990.This is an informative book dealing with a little known philosopher, Johannes Scottus Eriugena. In his first chapter O'Meara gives a succinct yet scholarly account of the historical context of Eriugena's writings--ninth-century Ireland and France. In particular O'Meara stresses that in that century there is abundant evidence that the Irish knew Greek and certainly the groundwork of Eriugena's later knowledge of Greek, evidenced in his translation of Pseudo-Dionysius, could have been laid in the …Read more
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14Report on the Dublin Workshop: Lacan, Heidegger and Psycho-AnalysisJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 14 (2): 219-220. 1983.
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13Review of Thomas Duddy, A History of Irish Thought (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (1). 2003.
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12Studies in the Philosophy of J. N. Findlay, edited by Robert S. Cohen, Richard M. Martin and Merold WestphalJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 17 (2): 200-201. 1986.
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12Introduction to Phenomenology, Robert SokolowskiJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 32 (1): 109-112. 2001.
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12Phenomenology: Critical Concepts in Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2004.Phenomenology as a tradition owes its name to Edmund Husserl, in his Logical Investigations (1900-1). It began as a bold new way of doing philosophy, an attempt to bring it back from abstract metaphysical speculation and empty logical calculation in order to come into contact with concrete living experience. As formulated by Husserl, Phenomenology is the investigation of the structures of consciousness that enable consciousness to refer to objects outside itself. It soon broadened into a world-w…Read more
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12The phenomenology of the social worldMetodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy 5 (1): 99-142. 2017.In this paper I discuss Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological account of the constitution of the social world, in relation to some phenomenological contributions to the constitution of sociality found in Husserl’s students and followers, including Heidegger, Gurwitsch, Walther, Otaka, and Schutz. Heidegger is often seen as being the first to highlight explicitly human existence as Mitsein and In-der-Welt-Sein, but it is now clear from the Husserliana publications that, in his private research manusc…Read more
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11Dasein as Transcendence in Heidegger and the Critique of HusserlIn Paul J. Ennis & Tziovanis Georgakis (eds.), Heidegger in the Twenty-First Century, Springer. 2015.
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