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9Hare, Husserl, and Philosophic DiscoveryIn Harold A. Durfee (ed.), Analytic philosophy and phenomenology, M. Nijhoff. pp. 208--216. 1976.
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14The Natural and the Normative: Theories of Spatial Perception from Kant to Helmholtz (review)Review of Metaphysics 46 (2): 406-407. 1992.This is a beautifully clear, detailed, and compelling revision of the received histories of late eighteenth and nineteenth-century German psychology and philosophy of mind. It focuses on the seemingly constant tension between what Hatfield calls normativism and naturalism. Participants in this story are often both philosophers and psychologists, in a mix in which it is difficult to see the differences. Hatfield presents us with the formative history of our present, uneasy distinction between "ph…Read more
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44Phenomenology and the philosophy of natureMan and World 21 (1): 65-89. 1988.Despite Platonism's unquestioned claim to being one of the most influential movements in the history of philosophy, for a long time the conventional wisdom was that Platonists of late antiquity, or Neoplatonists, were so focused on otherworldly metaphysics that they simply neglected any serious study of the sensible world, which after all is 'merely' an image of the intelligible world. Only recently has this conventional wisdom begun to be dispelled. In fact, it is precisely because these thinke…Read more
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21Some Contributions of Existential Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Natural ScienceAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 25 (2). 1988.
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23Marjorie Grene and the Phenomenon of LifePSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1984. 1984.Marjorie Grene's work expresses the conviction that what is called "the new philosophy of science" will not become viable until it is rooted in an understanding of the knower and the known which breaks with the familiar Cartesian dualisms. In order to provide this understanding, she has sought to restore central significance to the phenomenon of life -- to the distinctive ways in which animals, including human beings, perceive and act in their worlds. It is argued that her fundamental premise is…Read more
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10Samuel Enoch Stumpf 1918-1998Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 72 (2). 1998.
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One of the central tasks for any philosophy of science is to assess the conditions and limits of scientific objectivity. What should we take this sort of objectivity to mean? How is it to be legitimated? How can it be achieved? Is it even possible in principle, given the human condition? These questions are of perennial concern, of course, but in recent discussion they have become acute. They (review)In D. P. Chattopadhyaya, Lester Embree & Jitendranath Mohanty (eds.), Phenomenology and Indian philosophy, Indian Council of Philosophical Research in Association With Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. pp. 185. 1992.
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32The Persistence of the Problem of FreedomReview of Metaphysics 55 (1). 2001.A CONCERN TO UNDERSTAND THE POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITS of human freedom is as old as philosophy. Yet the question whether and in what sense human beings are free agents still provokes heated debate. Even a century ago, as William James began his discussion of the issue, he wondered, with some bemusement, whether there could possibly be any “juice” left in it! Happily, he concluded that there was still more to be said, but his eloquent defense of free will failed to convince; it became just another…Read more
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64Reinventing the Philosophy of NatureReview of Metaphysics 33 (1). 1979.PHILOSOPHY of nature is not currently considered standard fare in philosophy. Rather than the title of an area of inquiry, it has become the name of an isolated historical phenomenon—the Naturphilosophie of Schelling, Goethe, and Hegel, or a label for some school doctrine—the continuing tradition built upon the first books of Aristotle’s Physics or the newer one rooted in Whitehead’s Process and Reality. Philosophers do not typically see these systems of thought in terms of a common problematic,…Read more
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6James Schmidt, "Maurice Merleau-ponty: Between phenomenology and structuralism" (review)History and Theory 26 (3): 365. 1987.
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