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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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27The 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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20From 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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17Transcendental 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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28Aspects 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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16Milan 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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38Husserl 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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15From 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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14Review 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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84The 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 Dan Zahavi (ed.), 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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104Genesis, instinct, and reconstruction: Nam-in Lee's Edmund Husserl's phänomenologie der instincte (review)Husserl Studies 15 (2): 101-123. 1998.Nam-In Lee’s impressive study of “instinct” in Husserl1 gives a new sense to Husserl’s self-description of his work as a preoccupation with beginnings (see p. x) because it seeks not only to integrate the theme of instinct systematically into Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology but to demonstrate that it has a fundamental position. I believe the author has successfully demonstrated his contention that other students of Husserl who have treated the theme of instinct as a marginal consideration…Read more
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32Book Reviews. Robert S. Tragesser: 'Husserl and Realism in Logic and Mathematics'. Yung-Han Kim: 'Phanomenologie und Theologie. Studien zur Fruchtbarmachung des transzendentalphanomenologischen Denkens fur das christlich-dogmatische Denken'. Alphonso Lingis: 'Phenomenological Explanations' (review)Husserl Studies 5 (1): 69-80. 1988.
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139Edmund Husserl, analyses concerning passive and active synthesis. Lectures on transcendental logic (review)Husserl Studies 20 (2): 135-159. 2004.
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123The entelechy and authenticity of objective spirit: Reflections on husserliana XXVIIHusserl Studies 9 (2): 91-110. 1992.The editors, Thomas Nenon and Hans Rainer Sepp, of Husserl's Aufsdtze und Vortri~ge (1922-1937) (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989) have given us a fascinating present with quite a few surprises. I would like to take this occasion to thank them publicly for their able and selfless labors. Here we have Husserl attempting to address himself to a large philosophically untrained audience for funds of which he had dire need: he had two children getting married and the real value of his inflated German an…Read more
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41Blondel and Husserl: A continuation of the conversationTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 58 (3). 1996.The dialogue between Blondel and Husserl carried on by Maréchal and Duméry and other thinkers has been silent for almost fifty years. Yet Husserl's Nachlass provides reasons for deepening the dialogue, especially in the area of the basic Blondelian themes: the willing-will and the teleological and religious nature of consciousness. Nevertheless there are intriguing differences in their respective philosophical theologies
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16Parts of the Fink–Husserl ConversationNew Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 1 279-299. 2001.
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H. Reiner, "Duty and inclination: The fundamentals of morality discussed and redefined with special regard to Kant and Schiller" (review)Husserl Studies 1 (3): 307. 1984.
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11Einleitung in die Ethik: Vorlesungen Sommersemester 1920–1923, ed (review)Husserl Studies 22 (2): 167-191. 2006.
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25Wisdom, Knowledge, and Reflective JoyNew Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 3 53-84. 2003.
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75Constitution 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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62Fred 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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