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4The existence of the world as an irrational and “rational” factSouthern Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.This article reconstructs and defends Husserl's argument for the indubitability of the existence of the world as grounded in ultimate principles. Responding to criticisms about the feasibility of a Husserlian‐informed metaphysical cosmology, it offers a systematic account that explores the question of the world's existence at three distinct levels (factual‐empirical, eidetic, and transcendental), leading to a threefold characterization of the world. First, the obviousness of the world's existenc…Read more
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3Husserl on Illusory ThingsPhänomenologische Forschungen 2023 (1): 6-41. 2023.This article offers the first phenomenological clarification of the objective conditions for sensory illusions focusing on the noematic ‘idea’ and a priori ontological structure that regulate the appearances of illusory things in perception. First, I will show the necessity of eidetic and noematically oriented investigations, arguing that it is an analysis of how the essence ‘Thinghood’ functions transcendentally that leads to an a priori clarification of both illusory things and their correspon…Read more
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7IntroductionPhenomenology and Mind 23 12-18. 2022.Phenomenological axiology (the theory of value) is the area of phenomenology that most explicitly deals with problems currently explored in metaethics. As one authoritative source describes it, metaethics is “the attempt to understand the metaphysical, epistemological, semantic, and psychological presuppositions and commitments of moral thought, talk, and practice” (Sayre-McCord 2014). However, the scope of axiology is broader than the scope of metaethics, which is concerned exclusively with...
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13The ethics and urgency of identifying domestic minor sex trafficking victims in clinical settingsClinical Ethics 18 (2): 177-182. 2023.A critical opportunity for identifying children experiencing domestic minor sex trafficking exists in healthcare settings. This quantitative study documented the disconnect between youth seeking help and interventions offered by healthcare providers. Ninety-one sex youth exploited through sex trafficking answered questions detailing their experiences of seeking medical treatment for injuries associated with selling or trading sex. Healthcare providers who were aware that injuries were sustained …Read more
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16Husserl's Project, Critique, and Idea of ReasonJournal of Transcendental Philosophy 1 (2): 183-217. 2020.The present study seeks to accomplish three goals: to shed light on the problem of reason in Husserl’s co-inherited philosophical project, to elucidate his transcendental critique of reason, and to present Husserl's idea of reason in its distinctive features. A historical excursus first provides a frame to understand the necessity of a critique of reason, its proper subject-matter, and its function for the project of genuine philosophy. In particular, this historical reflection identifies the fo…Read more
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52Husserl, hallucination, and intentionalitySynthese 200 (4): 1-33. 2022.There is currently no consensus about a general account of hallucination and its object. The problem of hallucination has de facto generated contrasting accounts of perception, led to opposing epistemic and metaphysical positions, and, most significantly, exposed a manifold of diverging views concerning the intentionality of experience, in general, and perceptual intentionality, in particular. In this article, I aim to clarify the controversial status, experiential possibility, and intentional s…Read more
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51Husserl’s philosophical estrangement from the conjunctivism-disjunctivism debatePhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 20 (4): 743-779. 2020.Various attempts have been made recently to bring Husserl into the contemporary analytic discussion on sensory illusion and hallucination. On the one hand, this has resulted in a renewed interest in what one might call a ‘phenomenology of sense-deception.’ On the other hand, it has generated contrasting—if not utterly incompatible—readings of Husserl’s own account of sense perception. The present study critically evaluates the contemporary discourse on illusion and hallucination, reassesses its …Read more
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37The Sense of Deception: Illusion and Hallucination as Nullified, Invalid PerceptionHusserl Studies 35 (1): 27-49. 2019.The present study attempts to reconstruct Husserl’s account of empirical illusion and hallucination and disclose the significance of sense-deception in Husserl’s phenomenology. By clarifying the relation between the “leibhaftige presence” and “existence” of perceived objects, I shall be able to contend that illusion and hallucination are nullified, invalid perceptions. Non-existence or in-actuality is a form of invalidity: the Ungültigkeit of what demands its insertion in the totality of actual …Read more
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12Recensione di V. Bochicchio, PercezioneRivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 7 (1): 139-143. 2016.
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Areas of Specialization
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Epistemology |
Philosophy of Mind |
Husserl: Phenomenology, Misc |