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6Husserl and BrentanoIn Uriah Kriegel (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Franz Brentano and the Brentano School, Routledge. pp. 293-304. 2017.This chapter discusses Franz Brentano's influence on the Moravian-born philosopher Edmund Husserl, founder of phenomenology and mentor of Martin Heidegger, among other notable twentieth-century philosophers. Husserl arrived in Vienna having completed his military service there and went on to spend two years there, attending Brentano's lectures in particular. Brentano had distinguished generally between what he termed "genuine" or "authentic" presentations, where the object is directly given; and…Read more
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New Books on Merleau-Ponty: Reviews of Merleau-Ponty by Stephen Priest and The Debate Between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, edited by Jon StewartInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 7 (3): 393-402. 1999.
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Editors’ IntroductionIn Dermot Moran & Elisa Magrì (eds.), Empathy, Sociality, and Personhood: Essays on Edith Stein’s Phenomenological Investigations, Springer Verlag. 2017.
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Let it be' : Heidegger and Eckhart on GelassenheitIn Susi Ferrarello & Christos Hadjioannou (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Mindfulness, Routledge. 2023.
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23Recollections on Founding the International Journal of Philosophical Studies(IJPS)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 32 (1): 3-15. 2024.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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Edith Stein (1891-1942)In Kristin Gjesdal (ed.), The Oxford handbook of nineteenth-century women philosophers in the German tradition, Oxford University Press. 2023.
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65Perception and the Inhuman Gaze: Perspectives from Philosophy, Phenomenology and the Sciences. (edited book)Routledge. 2020.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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16Phenomenology of Sociality: Discovering the ‘We’ (edited book)Routledge. 2015.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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11The Shorter Logical Investigations (edited book)Routledge. 2000.First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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31Ethics and selfhood: A critiqueInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 14 (1). 2006.This Article does not have an abstract
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6Husserl and Heidegger on the transcendental homelessness of philosophyIn Pol Vandevelde & Sebastian Luft (eds.), Epistemology, Archaeology, Ethics: Current Investigations of Husserl's Corpus, Continuum. 2010.
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1623From the Natural Attitude to the Life-WorldIn 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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49Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology of Habituality and HabitusJournal 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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15The Phenomenology of Embodied Subjectivity, Contributions to Phenomenology 71 (edited book)Springer. 2013.
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87 Medieval Neoplatonism and the Dialectics of Being and Non-beingIn Andrew LaZella & Richard A. Lee (eds.), The Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy, Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy. pp. 142-159. 2020.
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10Book reviews (review)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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52Empathy, Sociality, and Personhood: Essays on Edith Stein’s Phenomenological Investigations (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2017.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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51Hegel 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
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Let's look at it objectively" : why phenomenology cannot be naturalizedIn Havi Carel & Darian Meacham (eds.), Phenomenology and Naturalism: Examining the Relationship Between Human Experience and Nature, Cambridge University Press. 2013.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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10Analytic philosophy and continental philosophy : four confrontationsIn Leonard Lawlor (ed.), Phenomenology: Responses and Developments, Routledge. 2013.
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7The 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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9Neoplatonism and Christianity in the WestIn Svetla Slaveva-Griffin & Pauliina Remes (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism, Routledge. 2014.
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7Intentionality: lived experience, bodily comportment, and the horizon of the worldIn Dan Zahavi (ed.), Oxford Handbook of the History of Phenomenology, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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Edith Steins philosophical conversions : from Husserl to Aquinas and NewmanIn Fran O'Rourke & Patrick Masterson (eds.), Ciphers of transcendence: essays in philosophy of religion in honour of Patrick Masterson, Irish Academic Press. 2019.
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13The phenomenology of the social worldMetodo. 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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29La actitud personalista: Edmund Husserl, Max Scheler y Edith SteinAreté. 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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