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23219Logical Investigations Volume 1Routledge. 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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29Heidegger in the Twenty-First Century (edited book)Springer. 2015.Responsibility has traditionally been associated with a project of appropriation, understood as the securing of a sphere of mastery for a willful subject, and enframed in a metaphysics of will, causality and subjectivity. In that tradition, responsibility is understood in terms of the subjectum that lies at the basis of the act, as ground of imputation, and opens onto the project of a self-legislation and self-appropriation of the subject. However, one finds in Heidegger and Derrida the reversal…Read more
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144Conscious thinking and cognitive phenomenology: topics, views and future developmentsPhilosophical Explorations 19 (2): 95-113. 2016.This introduction presents a state of the art of philosophical research on cognitive phenomenology and its relation to the nature of conscious thinking more generally. We firstly introduce the question of cognitive phenomenology, the motivation for the debate, and situate the discussion within the fields of philosophy, cognitive psychology and consciousness studies. Secondly, we review the main research on the question, which we argue has so far situated the cognitive phenomenology debate around…Read more
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4Medieval Philosophy of ReligionAcumen Publishing. 2013.Volume 2 covers one of the richest eras for the philosophical study of religion. Covering the period from the 6th century to the Renaissance, this volume shows how Christian, Islamic and Jewish thinkers explicated and defended their religious faith in light of the philosophical traditions they inherited from the ancient Greeks and Romans. The enterprise of 'faith seeking understanding', as it was dubbed by the medievals themselves, emerges as a vibrant encounter between - and a complex synthesis…Read more
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A Benjamin's The Plural Event (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 34 53-59. 1996.
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M Westphal's History And Tuth In Hegel's Phenomenology (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 11 21-24. 1985.
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Q Lauer's Hegel's Concept Of God (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 9 33-36. 1984.
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RS Woolhouse, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz: The Concept of Substance in Seventeenth-Century MetaphysicsBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (3): 482-485. 1998.
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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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"Natura quadriformata" and the Beginnings of "Physiologia" in the Philosophy of John Scottus EriugenaLes Etudes Philosophiques 21 (n/a): 41. 1979.
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5A 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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39Husserl and Ricoeur: The Influence of Phenomenology on the Formation of Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of the ‘Capable Human’Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 25 (1): 182-199. 2017.The phenomenology of Edmund Husserl had a permanent and profound impact on the philosophical formation of Paul Ricoeur. One could truly say, paraphrasing Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s brilliant 1959 essay ‘The Philosopher and his Shadow’,that Husserl is the philosopher in whose shadow Ricoeur, like Merleau-Ponty, also stands, the thinker to whom he constantly returns. Husserl is Ricoeur’s philosopher of reflection, par excellence. Indeed, Ricoeur always invokes Husserl when he is discussing a paradigm…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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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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10Dasein 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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1450Sartre 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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128Introduction: intersubjectivity and empathyPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 11 (2): 125-133. 2012.
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2758Intentionality: 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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26Review of Cyril O'Regan, Gnostic Return in Modernity and Gnostic Apocalypse (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (5). 2002.
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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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62Husserl's Letter to Lévy-Bruhl: IntroductionThe New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 8 (1): 325-347. 2011.
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97“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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852‘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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