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Agent Intellect and Primal Sensibility in HusserlIn Thomas Nenon & Lester Embree (eds.), Issues in Husserl’s Ideas Ii, Springer. pp. 107-134. 2010.
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19An asterisk denotes a publication by a member of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. The Editors welcome suggestions for reviews. Bronson, Eric, ed. Baseball and Philosophy. Chicago: Open Court, 2004. Pp. xi+ 340. Paper $27.95, ISBN: 0812695569. Emory, Gilles. Trinity in Aquinas. Ypsilanti, Mich.: Sapientia Press, 2003. Pp (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 78 (1). 2004.
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8Phenomenology of Values and Valuing (edited book)Springer. 1997.Although a key aspect of the phenomenological movement is its contribution to value theory and value perception, there has been relatively little attention paid to these themes. This volume in part makes up for this lacuna by being the first anthology on value-theory in the phenomenological movement. It indicates the scope of the issues by discussing, e.g., the distinctive acts of valuing, openness to value, the objectivity of values, the summation and combination of values, the deconstruction o…Read more
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19Brentano and Intrinsic Value (review)Review of Metaphysics 41 (4): 820-822. 1988.In this rich little volume, Roderick Chisholm gives us a taste of the rich tapestry of Brentano's thought. Besides being an original analysis, which the reader expects from this thinker, this work is a contribution to Brentano scholarship.
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10The truthful and the good: essays in honor of Robert Sokolowski (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1996.This book collects essays considering the full range of Robert Sokolowski's philosophical works: his vew of philosophy; his phenomenology of language and his account of the relation between language and being; his phenomenology of moral action; and his phenomenological theology of disclosure.
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28The Transcendental-Phenomenological Ontology of Persons and the Singularity of LoveEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 4 (4): 136-174. 2021.Reference to persons with personal pronouns raises the issue of the primary referent and its nature. “I” does not refer to a property or cluster of properties. This contrasts with our identifying grasp of persons. A person is a radical singularity and thus stands in contrast to a kind or sortal term. The individuation of persons is not adequately grasped by “definite descriptions” or “eidetic singularities.” In spite of the seeming possibility of persons being wholly identical in terms of proper…Read more
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22From Metafact to Metaphysics in “the Heidelberg School”ProtoSociology 36 79-100. 2019.The works of Dieter Henrich and Manfred Frank argue that consciousness is fundamentally a self-awareness antecedent to reflection. This essay picks up the suggestion that consciousness itself is a field or medium of manifestation. As such it is a “metafact,” the anonymity of which transcendental philosophy seeks to overcome. This is required because the “facts” of the light of the mind and the intelligibility of what the mind discloses elude philosophical investigation as long as the anonymity r…Read more
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19Transcendental pride and Luciferism: On being bearers of light and powers of darknessContinental Philosophy Review 53 (3): 331-353. 2020.The ancient theme of the metaphysical-theological extremes of being-human is revisited by asking about the condition for the readiness to engage in the form of violence which is nuclear war. Sartre’s analysis of the extreme form of anger which crosses a threshold resulting in a self-legitimating righteous indignation which admits of no superior mollifying standpoint is appropriated to account for the complacency with the institution of nuclear weapons. The god-like anti-God characteristics of ex…Read more
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33Aspects of the Transcendental Phenomenology of LanguageEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 3 (1): 6-29. 2019.Transcendental Phenomenology of language wrestles with the relationship of language to mind’s manifestation of being. Of special interest is the sense in which language is, like one’s embodiment, a medium of manifestation. Not only does it permit sharing the world because words as worldly things embody meanings that can be the same for everyone; not only does speaking manifest to others the common world from the speaker’s perspective; but also speaking, as a meaning to say, may achieve the manif…Read more
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17Milan Kundera on the Uniqueness of One’s SelfEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 2 (3): 100-127. 2018.Here is a philosophical examination of some themes presented by Milan Kundera in The Art of the Novel, as well as in his novels Immortality and The Unbearable Lightness of Being. The discussions of the first-personal perspectives of the novel’s author, both as appearing in and as contrasted with that of a character in the novel, as these unfold in implicit subtle comic, social-political contexts, prescind from these contexts and dwell instead on fictional renditions of the senses of personhood a…Read more
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44Husserl and the Theological QuestionEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 2 (2): 122-135. 2018.Defending the ancient thesis, that being and the true, or being and manifestation, are necessarily inseparable, is at the heart of transcendental phenomenology. The transcendental “reduction” disengages the basic “natural” naïve doxastic belief which permits the world to appear as essentially indifferent to the agency of manifestation. The massive work of transcendental phenomenology is showing the agency of manifestation of “absolute consciousness.” Yet the foundations of this agency of manifes…Read more
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17From Moral Annihilation to Luciferism: Aspects of a Phenomenology of ViolenceEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 1 (1): 39-60. 2017.Do the various ascriptions of “violence,” e.g., to rape, logical reasoning, racist legislation, unqualified statements, institutions of class and/or gender inequity, etc., mean something identically the same, something analogous, or equivocal and context-bound? This paper argues for both an analogous sense as well as an exemplary essence and finds support in Aristotle’s theory of anger as, as Sokolowski has put it, a form of moral annihilation, culminating in a level of rage that crosses a thres…Read more
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22Review Article of Michael Staudigl’s Phänomenologie der GewaltContinental Philosophy Review 50 (2): 269-288. 2017.This book is a rounded well-informed study of violence, especially from a hermeneutical and social-studies perspective. It is relevant to peace studies. It raises key issues about the phenomenology of the person, of violence, of the foundations of ethics. Although it tends to skirt normative phenomenological, eidetic as well as moral issues they are always insistently on the edge of the rich discussions philosophical-hermeneutical issues and contemporary writings on these matters.
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85The Phenomeno-Logic of the I: Essays on Self-Consciousness (edited book)Indiana University Press. 1999.This unique volume will appeal to those interested in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence as well as students of Castaneda and Latin American philosophy.
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15Psychosynthesis: A Collection of Basic Writings The Act of Will The Primal Wound: A Transpersonal View of Trauma, Addiction, and GrowthJournal of Phenomenological Psychology 40 (2): 214-222. 2009.
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67Intentionality, phenomenality, and lightIn Self-Awareness, Temporality, and Alterity, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 59--82. 1998.
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M. Sommer, "Evidenz im Augenblick: Eine Phänomenologie der reinen Empfindung" (review)Husserl Studies 9 (3): 227. 1992.
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80Constitution and reference in Husserl's phenomenology of phenomenologyHusserl Studies 6 (1): 43-72. 1989.Reflection is the basic attitude of transcendental phenomenology. However, as we shall see in this essay, prereflective experiencing may make a unique claim for philosophical foundations - albeit a claim which can only occur when mediated by reflection.
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13Wisdom, Knowledge, and Reflective JoyNew Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 3 53-84. 2003.
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65Fred Kersten: 'Phenomenological Method: Theory and Practice'. (review)Husserl Studies 9 (3): 219-226. 1992.This very ambitious and remarkably detailed book examines some of the most fundamental themes in Husserl's philosophy. As is evident from the title, the book has two parts, the first of which (pp. 1-101) discusses Husserl's methodology, esp. the phenomenological reduction, and the second of which (pp. 103-347) investigates the themes of space, time, and other. These themes are selected because they are central to our mundane and embodied experience of an objective, physical and animate wor…Read more
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K. Yung-Han, "Phänomenologie und Theologie: Studien zur Fruchtbarmachung des transzendentalphänomenologischen Denkens für das christlich-dogmatische Denken" (review)Husserl Studies 5 (1): 81. 1988.
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Geneology of Psychoanalysis, by Michel HenryJournal of Phenomenological Psychology 29 (1): 140-145. 1998.
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15Edmund Husserl and the Phenomenological Tradition (review)Review of Metaphysics 43 (2): 423-425. 1989.This, for the most part, is a collection of informative and original interpretations and readings of Husserl and Husserlian themes based on a 1985 lecture series.
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24Being's Mindfulness: The Noema of Transcendental IdealismIn John Drummond & Lester Embree (eds.), The Phenomenology of the Noema, Springer. pp. 111-135. 1992.
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