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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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42Proclus’s Commentary on Plato’s Parmenides (review)Irish Philosophical Journal 6 (1): 164-166. 1989.
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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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52Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Husserl on Embodied PerceptionProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 19 77-111. 2008.
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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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21Guest Editors' IntroductionInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 21 (3): 313-316. 2013.No abstract
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164Immanence, 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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63Sinnboden 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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90Husserl’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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115Introduction: Empathy and Collective Intentionality—The Social Philosophy of Edith SteinHuman Studies 38 (4): 445-461. 2015.
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40Editors’ Introduction: Resurrecting the Phenomenological MovementStudia Phaenomenologica 15 11-24. 2015.
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42“Our Germans Are Better than Your Germans”: Continental and Analytic Approaches to Intentionality ReconsideredPhilosophical Topics 27 (2): 77-106. 1999.
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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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Alfredo Ferrarin’s Hegel And Aristotle (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 51 120-126. 2005.
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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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395Husserl’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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69Idealism 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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127Fink'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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