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Logical Investigations Volume 2 (edited book)Routledge. 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 includ…Read more
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43‘There is no brute world, only an elaborated world’: Merleau-Ponty on the intersubjective constitution of the worldSouth African Journal of Philosophy 32 (4): 355-371. 2013.In his later works, Merleau-Ponty proposes the notion of ‘the flesh’ (la chair) as a new ‘element’, as he put it, in his ontological monism designed to overcome the legacy of Cartesian dualism with its bifurcation of all things into matter or spirit. Most Merleau-Ponty commentators recognise that Merleau-Ponty's notion of ‘flesh’ is inspired by Edmund Husserl's conceptions of ‘lived body’ (Leib) and ‘vivacity’ or ‘liveliness’ (Leiblichkeit). But it is not always recognised that, for Merleau-Pont…Read more
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Alfredo Ferrarin’s Hegel And Aristotle (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 51 120-126. 2005.
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70Idealism in Medieval Philosophy: The Case of Johannes Scottus EriugenaMedieval Philosophy and Theology 8 (1): 53-82. 1999.In this article I wish to re-examine the vexed issue of the possibility of idealism in ancient and medieval philosophy with particular reference to the case of Johannes Scottus Eriugena (c. 800idealisms immaterialism as his standard for idealism, and it is this decision, coupled with his failure to acknowledge the legacy of German idealism, which prevents him from seeing the classical and medieval roots of idealism more broadly understood
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397Husserl’s transcendental philosophy and the critique of naturalismContinental Philosophy Review 41 (4): 401-425. 2008.Throughout his career, Husserl identifies naturalism as the greatest threat to both the sciences and philosophy. In this paper, I explicate Husserl’s overall diagnosis and critique of naturalism and then examine the specific transcendental aspect of his critique. Husserl agreed with the Neo-Kantians in rejecting naturalism. He has three major critiques of naturalism: First, it (like psychologism and for the same reasons) is ‘countersensical’ in that it denies the very ideal laws that it needs fo…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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128Fink's Speculative Phenomenology: Between Constitution and TranscendenceResearch in Phenomenology 37 (1): 3-31. 2007.In the last decade of his life (from 1928 to 1938), Husserl sought to develop a new understanding of his transcendental phenomenology (in publications such as Cartesian Meditations, Formal and Transcendental Logic, and the Crisis) in order to combat misconceptions of phenomenology then current (chief among which was Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology as articulated in Being and Time). During this period, Husserl had an assistant and collaborator, Eugen Fink, who sought not only to be midwife …Read more
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92What Does Heidegger Mean by the Transcendence of Dasein?International Journal of Philosophical Studies 22 (4): 491-514. 2014.In this paper, I shall examine the evolution of Heidegger’s concept of ‘transcendence’ as it appears in Being and Time (1927), ‘On the Essence of Ground’ (1928) and related texts from the late 1920s in relation to his rethinking of subjectivity and intentionality. Heidegger defines Being as ‘transcendence’ in Being and Time and reinterprets intentionality in terms of the transcendence of Dasein. In the critical epistemological tradition of philosophy stemming from Kant, as in Husserl, transcende…Read more
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4Edmund Husserl's methodology of concept clarificationIn Michael Beaney (ed.), The Analytic Turn: Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology, Routledge. pp. 235. 2007.
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1Nature and Mind in the Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena [Microform] a Study in Medieval Idealism. --University Microfilms International. 1987.This thesis is a study of the philosophical system of a little-studied, but important medieval thinker, John Scottus Eriugena , concentrating on his Periphyseon . ;I argue that Eriugena's system of nature must be approached through an investigation of his epistemology and general philosophy of mind. Instead of beginning with his fourfold classification of Nature, as most commentators have done, I begin with Eriugena's concept of the mind and its dialectical operations , and continue with an exam…Read more
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The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2008.The twentieth century was one of the most significant and exciting periods ever witnessed in philosophy, characterized by intellectual change and development on a massive scale. _The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy_ is an outstanding authoritative survey and assessment of the century as a whole. Featuring twenty-two chapters written by leading international scholars, this collection is divided into five clear parts and presents a comprehensive picture of the period for the fi…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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30Jean Scot Érigène, La connaissance de soi et la tradition idéalisteLes Etudes Philosophiques 104 (1): 29. 2013.Résumé Dans cet article, j’explore l’idéalisme d’Érigène selon ses propres termes et conditions, en tentant de saisir la nature spécifique de son application théologique, métaphysique et épistémologique de la relation entre être et non-être. Je suggère que les idéalistes allemands ont raison de considérer Érigène comme l’un des leurs pour sa reconnaissance de l’univers comme un processus d’articulation de soi et de compréhension de soi de l’esprit divin. L’explication d’Érigène de la nature de t…Read more
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129Introduction: intersubjectivity and empathyPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 11 (2): 125-133. 2012.
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2778Intentionality: Some Lessons from the History of the Problem from Brentano to the PresentInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 21 (3): 317-358. 2013.Intentionality (‘directedness’, ‘aboutness’) is both a central topic in contemporary philosophy of mind, phenomenology and the cognitive sciences, and one of the themes with which both analytic and Continental philosophers have separately engaged starting from Brentano and Edmund Husserl’s ground-breaking Logical Investigations (1901) through Roderick M. Chisholm, Daniel C. Dennett’s The Intentional Stance, John Searle’s Intentionality, to the recent work of Tim Crane, Robert Brandom, Shaun Gall…Read more
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1461Sartre on Embodiment, Touch, and the “Double Sensation”Philosophy Today 54 (Supplement): 135-141. 2010.The chapter titled “The Body” in Being and Nothingness offers a groundbreaking, if somewhat neglected, philosophical analysis of embodiment. As part of his “es- say on phenomenological ontology,” he is proposing a new multi-dimensional ontological approach to the body. Sartre’s chapter offers a radical approach to the body and to the ‘flesh’. However, it has not been fully appreciated. Sartre offers three ontological dimensions to embodiment. The first “ontological dimension” addresses the way, …Read more
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23The Husserl DictionaryContinuum. 2012.A concise and accessible dictionary of the key terms and concepts in Husserl's philosophy, his major works and philosophical influences.
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63Husserl's Letter to Lévy-Bruhl: IntroductionThe New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 8 (1): 325-347. 2011.
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26Review of Cyril O'Regan, Gnostic Return in Modernity and Gnostic Apocalypse (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (5). 2002.
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98“Even the Papuan is a Man and not a Beast”: Husserl on Universalism and the Relativity of CulturesJournal of the History of Philosophy 49 (4): 463-494. 2011.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:“Even the Papuan is a Man and not a Beast”: Husserl on Universalism and the Relativity of CulturesDermot Moran (bio)“[A]nd in this broad sense even the Papuan is a man and not a beast.” ([U]nd in diesem weiten Sinne ist auch der Papua Mensch und nicht Tier, Husserl, Crisis, 290/Hua. VI.337–38)1“Reason is the specific characteristic of man, as a being living in personal activities and habitualities.” (Vernunft ist das Spezifische des …Read more
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864‘Let's Look at It Objectively’: Why Phenomenology Cannot be NaturalizedRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 72 89-115. 2013.In recent years there have been attempts to integrate first-person phenomenology into naturalistic science. Traditionally, however, Husserlian phenomenology has been resolutely anti-naturalist. Husserl identified naturalism as the dominant tendency of twentieth-century science and philosophy and he regarded it as an essentially self-refuting doctrine. Naturalism is a point of view or attitude (a reification of the natural attitude into the naturalistic attitude) that does not know that it is an …Read more
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The Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena: A Study of Idealism in the Middle AgesTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 52 (3): 567-567. 1989.
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61Adventures of the Reduction (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 80 (2): 283-293. 2006.In his illuminating Aquinas Lecture Jacques Taminiaux offers a bold interpretation of certain contemporary European philosophers in terms of the way in which they react to and transform Husserl’s phenomenological reduction. He highlights issues relating to embodiment, personhood, and value. Taminiaux sketches Husserl’s emerging conception of the reduction and criticizes certain Cartesian assumptions that Husserl retains even after the reduction, and specifically the assumption that directly expe…Read more
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