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27Idealism in Medieval Philosophy: The Case of Johannes Scottus EriugenaMedieval Philosophy & 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. 800–c. 877), the Irish Neoplatonic Christian philosopher. Both Bernard Williams and Myles Burnyeat have argued that idealism never emerged (and for Burnyeat, could not have emerged) as a genuine philosophical position in antiquity, a claim that has had wide currency in recent years, and now constitutes someth…Read more
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Paul Ricoeur: Phenomenology as interpretationIn Tim Mooney & Dermot Moran (eds.), The Phenomenology Reader, Routledge. pp. 573--600. 2002.
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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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237Heidegger's critique of Husserl's and Brentano's accounts of intentionalityInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 43 (1): 39-65. 2000.Inspired by Aristotle, Franz Brentano revived the concept of intentionality to characterize the domain of mental phenomena studied by descriptive psychology. Edmund Husserl, while discarding much of Brentano?s conceptual framework and presuppositions, located intentionality at the core of his science of pure consciousness (phenomenology). Martin Heidegger, Husserl?s assistant from 1919 to 1923, dropped all reference to intentionality and consciousness in Being and Time (1927), and so appeared to…Read more
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13Nicholas of Cusa and modern philosophyIn James Hankins (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 173--192. 2007.
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3Book reviews (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (3): 473-514. 1998.Duns Scotus, Metaphysician. William A. Frank and Allan B. Wolter. Purdue University Press 1995, pp. 224 £27.50 Hb. ISBN 1–55753–071–8 £13.19 Pb. ISBN 1–55753–072–6 Plato in Renaissance England. Sears Jayne. Dordrecht, Boston & London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995, pp. 197 Dfl. 190.00, $122.00, £80.00 hb. ISBN 0–7923–3060–9 Mechanismus und Subjektivität in der Philosophie von Thomas Hobbes. Michael Esfeld. Frommann‐Holzboog, Stuttgart‐Bad Cannstatt 1995, pp. 434. ISBN 3–7728–1699–1 Descartes,…Read more
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Logical Investigations Volume 1 (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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2The early HeideggerIn Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 23. 2013.
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55A case for philosophical pluralism: The problem of intentionalityIn Philosophy and Pluralism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 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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28Review of Sarah Borden sharkey, Thine Own Self: Individuality in Edith Stein's Later Writings (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (8). 2010.
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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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9Heidegger’s Phenomenology and the Destruction of ReasonIrish Philosophical Journal 2 (1): 15-35. 1985.
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42Proclus’s Commentary on Plato’s Parmenides (review)Irish Philosophical Journal 6 (1): 164-166. 1989.
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53Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Husserl on Embodied PerceptionProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 19 77-111. 2008.
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6Volume IntroductionThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 6 11-12. 2007.
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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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Johannes scottus eriugenaIn Graham Oppy & Nick Trakakis (eds.), Medieval Philosophy of Religion: The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 2, Routledge. pp. 3--33. 2009.
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92Immanence, Self-Experience, and Transcendence in Edmund Husserl, Edith Stein, and Karl JaspersAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 82 (2): 265-291. 2008.Phenomenology, understood as a philosophy of immanence, has had an ambiguous, uneasy relationship with transcendence, with the wholly other, with the numinous. If phenomenology restricts its evidence to givenness and to what has phenomenality, what becomes of that which is withheld or cannot in principle come to givenness? In this paper I examine attempts to acknowledge the transcendent in the writings of two phenomenologists, Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein (who attempted to fuse phenomenology w…Read more
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78Sinnboden der Geschichte: Foucault and Husserl on the structural a priori of historyContinental Philosophy Review 49 (1): 13-27. 2016.In this paper I explore Husserl’s and Foucault’s approaches to the historical a priori and defend Husserl’s richer notion. Foucault borrows the expression ‘historical a priori’ from Husserl and there are continuities, but also significant and ultimately irreconcilable differences, between their conceptions. Both are looking for ‘conditions of possibility,’ forms of ‘institution’ or instauration, and patterns of transformation, for scientific knowledge. Husserl identifies the ‘a priori of history…Read more
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28Guest Editors' IntroductionInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 21 (3): 313-316. 2013.No abstract
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91Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An introductionCambridge University Press. 2012.Machine generated contents note: Preface; Introduction: Husserl's life and writings; 1. Husserl's Crisis: an unfinished masterpiece; 2. Galileo's revolution and the origins of modern science; 3. The Crisis in psychology; 4. Rethinking tradition: Husserl on history; 5. Husserl's problematical concept of the life-world; 6. Phenomenology as transcendental philosophy; 7. The ongoing influence of Husserl's Crisis.
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