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26Husserl’s Idealism RevisitedIn Cynthia D. Coe (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Phenomenology, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 15-40. 2021.This chapter explicates Husserl’s transcendental idealism as motivated by his critiques of naturalism and objectivism. The chapter proposes a way of resolving the paradox of transcendental subjectivity, namely: how subjectivity can be both for the world and in the world. Husserl’s idealism has a number of commitments: priority of consciousness over being in the correlation between subjectivity and objectivity; all “meaning and being” depend on transcendental subjectivity; transcendental subjecti…Read more
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29From Empathy to Intersubjectivity: The Phenomenological ApproachIn Anna Bortolan & Elisa Magrì (eds.), Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Social World: The Continued Relevance of Phenomenology. Essays in Honour of Dermot Moran, Degruyter. pp. 23-44. 2022.
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46The phenomenology of joint agency: the implicit structures of the shared life-worldPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 1-28. 2021.We do lots of things together in a shared manner. From the phenomenological point of view, does joint or shared agency need a conscious sense of shared agency? Yet there are many processes where we seem to just go along with the group without conscious intent. Building on the classic phenomenological accounts of Edmund Husserl, Alfred Schutz, Martin Heidegger (and the synthetic account of Berger & Luckmann), I want to emphasize the thick horizon of the life-world as a fundamental condition for i…Read more
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21Diseccionando 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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21Husserl 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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38Husserl and the GreeksJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 52 (2): 98-117. 2020.I document Husserl’s growing interest in the foundational character of Greek philosophy for Western culture and show what is unique about Husserl’s appropriation of certain Greek thinkers and conce...
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2Between Vision and TouchIn Richard Kearney & Brian Treanor (eds.), Carnal Hermeneutics, Fordham. pp. 214-234. 2015.
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6Aristotle’s Conception of οὐσία in the Medieval Christian Tradition: Some Neoplatonic ReflectionsIn Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou (ed.), Aristotle - Contemporary Perspectives on His Thought: On the 2400th Anniversary of Aristotle's Birth, De Gruyter. pp. 325-366. 2018.
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17Kant 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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7Husserl’s Layered Concept of the Human Person: Conscious and UnconsciousIn Dylan Trigg & Dorothée Legrand (eds.), Unconsciousness Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis, Springer Verlag. 2017.
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22Husserl’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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3Die verborgene Einheit intentionaler InnerlichkeitAlter: revue de phénoménologie 21 117-134. 2013.Understanding the meaning of history is central both to Husserl’s Crisis project and to his mature conception of transcendental phenomenology as a description of full concrete living in plurality. In this paper I examine the mature Husserl’s conception of history (variously: Historie, Geschichte) including his account of the development of Western (i.e. “European” – as in the very title of the Crisis itself) culture, which focuses specifically on the emergence of theoretical reflecti...
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81Husserl and Gurwitsch on Horizonal Intentionality: The Gurwitch Memorial Lecture 2018Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 50 (1): 1-41. 2019.Gurwitsch is the philosopher of consciousness par excellence. This paper presents a systematic exposition of Aron Gurwitsch’s main contribution to phenomenology, namely his theory of the ‘field of consciousness’ with its a priori structure of theme, thematic field, margin. I present Gurwitsch as an orthodox defender of Husserlian descriptive phenomenology, albeit one who rejected Husserl’s reduction to the transcendental ego and Husserl’s overt idealism. He maintained with Husserl the priority o…Read more
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Edith Stein’s Encounter with Edmund Husserl and Her Phenomenology of the PersonIn Dermot Moran & Elisa Magrì (eds.), Empathy, Sociality, and Personhood: Essays on Edith Stein’s Phenomenological Investigations, Springer Verlag. 2017.
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12Introduction to Phenomenology, Robert SokolowskiJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 32 (1): 109-112. 2001.
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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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9Heidegger and Science, by Joseph J. KockelmansJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 19 (1): 97-99. 1988.
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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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15Studies 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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7The Phenomenology of Man and the Human Condition. Individualisation of Nature and the Human Being, edited by A.-T. Tymieniecka (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 15 (3): 314-317. 1984.
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10Alfredo Ferrarin, Hegel and Aristotle , pp. 442. ISBN 0-521-78314-3Hegel Bulletin 26 (1-2): 120-126. 2005.
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3Andrew Benjamin, The Plural Event Descartes, Hegel, Heidegger, London: Routledge, 1993, pp 211, PbHegel Bulletin 17 (2): 53-59. 1996.
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6Merold Westphal, History and Truth in Hegel's Phenomenology. Brighton, Harvester Press and Atlantic Heights, Humanities Press, 1982, pp. v, 233 (review)Hegel Bulletin 6 (1): 21-24. 1985.
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2Quentin Lauer, Hegel's Concept of God, Albany, SUNY Press, 1982, pp. 331, hardback £25.15, paperback £8.25Hegel Bulletin 5 (1): 33-36. 1984.
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