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    Recollections on Founding the International Journal of Philosophical Studies(IJPS)
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 1-13. forthcoming.
    In this paper, I recount the history of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies (IJPS), and my role as Founding Editor. The IJPS emerged from the earlier annual Philosophical Studies (Maynooth), founded by Desmond Bastable in 1951 and published regularly until 1988. I took over as Editor from 1989 to 1992 and then began the International Journal of Philosophical Studies.
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    The diverse essays in this volume speak to the relevance of phenomenological and psychological questioning regarding perceptions of the human. This designation, human, can be used beyond the mere identification of a species to underwrite exclusion, denigration, dehumanization and demonization, and to set up a pervasive opposition in Othering all deemed inhuman, nonhuman, or posthuman. As alerted to by Merleau-Ponty, one crucial key for a deeper understanding of these issues is consideration of t…Read more
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    Phenomenological accounts of sociality in Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Scheler, Schütz, Stein and many others offer powerful lines of arguments to recast current, predominantly analytic, discussions on collective intentionality and social cognition. Against this background, the aim of this volume is to reevaluate, critically and in contemporary terms, the rich phenomenological resources regarding social reality: the interpersonal, collective and communal aspects of the life-world. …Read more
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    The Shorter Logical Investigations (edited book)
    with Edmund Husserl
    Routledge. 2000.
    First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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    Ethics and selfhood: A critique
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 14 (1). 2006.
    This Article does not have an abstract
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    From the Natural Attitude to the Life-World
    In Lester Embree & Thomas Nenon (eds.), Husserl’s Ideen, Springer. pp. 105--124. 2013.
    This chapter explores Edmund Husserl’s ground-breaking discussion of the “natural attitude” (die natürliche Einstellung) in Ideen I (1913) in relation to his conception of the “life-world” (Lebenswelt), a term that emerges in his writings around 1917 and becomes perhaps the most prominent theme of Krisis (1936 and 1954). I contend that the parallels between the “natural surrounding world” (natürliche Umwelt) of Ideen I and the “life-world” of Krisis have not been sufficiently explored by comment…Read more
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    Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology of Habituality and Habitus
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 42 (1): 53-77. 2011.
    The concept of habit enfolds an enormous richness and diversity of meanings. According to Husserl, habit, along with association, memory, and so on, belongs to the very essence of the psychic.1 Husserl even speaks of an overall genetic “phenomenology of habitualities”. In this paper, as an initial attempt to explicate the complexity of phenomenological treatments of habit, want to trace Husserl’s conception of habit as it emerged in his mature genetic phenomenology, in order to highlight his eno…Read more
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    The Inaugural Address: Brentano's Thesis
    Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 70 1-27. 1996.
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    Book reviews (review)
    with Paul K. Moser, Paul O'Grady, Axel Honneth, J. D. G. Evans, Andrew Smith, Gerard Casey, Jeff Malpas, Bemhard Weiss, Stefaan E. Cuypers, Teresa Iglesias, Maeve Cooke, and Matt Matravers
    Humana Mente 5 (3): 449-491. 1997.
    New Books on Philosophy of Religion Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim that God Speaks By Nicholas Wolterstorff, Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. 326. ISBN 0–521–47557–0. $18.95. The Historical Christ and the Jesus of Faith: The Incamational Narrative as History By C. Stephen Evans, Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. 386. ISBN 0–19–826397‐X $17.95. Consciousness and the Mind of God By Charles Taliaferro, Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 349. ISBN 0–521–46173–1. $6…Read more
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    This book explores the phenomenological investigations of Edith Stein by critically contextualising her role within the phenomenological movement and assessing her accounts of empathy, sociality, and personhood. Despite the growing interest that surrounds contemporary research on empathy, Edith Stein’s phenomenological investigations have been largely neglected due to a historical tradition that tends to consider her either as Husserl’s assistant or as a martyr. However, in her phenomenological …Read more
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    Hegel and Phenomenology (edited book)
    Springer Verlag. 2019.
    This volume articulates and develops new research questions and original insights regarding the philosophical dialogue between Hegel’s philosophy, his heritage, and contemporary phenomenology, including, among others, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Ricoeur. The collection discusses methodological questions concerning the relevance of Hegel’s philosophy for contemporary phenomenology, addressing core issues revolving around the key concepts of history, being, science, subjectivity, and di…Read more
  • 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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    The Phenomenology of Embodied Subjectivity (edited book)
    Imprint: Springer. 2013.
    The 17 original essays of this volume explore the relevance of the phenomenological approach to contemporary debates concerning the role of embodiment in our cognitive, emotional and practical life. The papers demonstrate the theoretical vitality and critical potential of the phenomenological tradition both through critically engagement with other disciplines (medical anthropology, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, the cognitive sciences) and through the articulation of novel interpretations of classi…Read more
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    Neoplatonism and Christianity in the West
    In Svetla Slaveva-Griffin & Pauliina Remes (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism, Routledge. 2014.
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    The phenomenology of the social world
    Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy 5 (1): 99-142. 2017.
    In this paper I discuss Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological account of the constitution of the social world, in relation to some phenomenological contributions to the constitution of sociality found in Husserl’s students and followers, including Heidegger, Gurwitsch, Walther, Otaka, and Schutz. Heidegger is often seen as being the first to highlight explicitly human existence as Mitsein and In-der-Welt-Sein, but it is now clear from the Husserliana publications that, in his private research manusc…Read more
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    La actitud personalista: Edmund Husserl, Max Scheler y Edith Stein
    Areté. Revista de Filosofía 34 (1): 171-205. 2022.
    Este artículo discute las considerables semejanzas entre las concepciones de la persona defendidas por Husserl, Scheler y Stein, según las cuales la persona es un valor absoluto que se ejercita en tomas de posición. Para los fenomenólogos clásicos, la ética concierne a la persona en su totalidad, incluyendo las dimensiones afectiva y racional, el intelecto y el corazón, así como la volición. Las personas se distinguen por su agencia libre, por su capacidad para reconocer normas, y por su habilid…Read more
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    Avant-propos
    Diogène 264 (3): 3-5. 2020.
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    Réponse à Jaakko Hintikka
    with Nicole G. Albert
    Diogène 242 (2): 26-49. 2014.
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    Husserl’s Idealism Revisited
    In 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