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957Consciousness is not a Bag: Immanence, Transcendence, and Constitution in The Idea of PhenomenologyHusserl Studies 24 (3): 177-191. 2008.A fruitful way to approach The Idea of Phenomenology is through Husserl’s claim that consciousness is not a bag, box, or any other kind of container. The bag conception, which dominated much of modern philosophy, is rooted in the idea that philosophy is restricted to investigating only what is really immanent to consciousness, such as acts and sensory contents. On this view, what Husserl called “the riddle of transcendence” can never be solved. The phenomenological reduction, as Husserl develops…Read more
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353The Method of Philosophy: Making DistinctionsReview of Metaphysics 51 (3). 1998.The Catholic University of America.
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261Syntax, semantics, and the problem of the identity of mathematical objectsPhilosophy of Science 55 (3): 376-386. 1988.A plurality of axiomatic systems can be interpreted as referring to one and the same mathematical object. In this paper we examine the relationship between axiomatic systems and their models, the relationships among the various axiomatic systems that refer to the same model, and the role of an intelligent user of an axiomatic system. We ask whether these relationships and this role can themselves be formalized
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257Immanent constitution in Husserl's lectures on timePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 24 (4): 530-551. 1964.In this essay, we will discuss what Husserl mean when he says that immanent objects are “constituted” by inner temporality. Our discussion will amount to a study of how sensations and intentions come to be in out subjectivity, and how we are conscious of them; Husserl’s opinion on these points will be taken from his Lectures on the Phenomenology of Inner Time Consciousness.
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182Husserl’s Discovery of Philosophical DiscourseHusserl Studies 24 (3): 167-175. 2008.Husserl’s Idea of Phenomenology is his first systematic attempt to show how phenomenology differs from natural science and in particular psychology. He does this by the phenomenological reduction. One of his achievements is to show that the formal structures of intentionality are more akin to logic than to psychology. I claim that Husserl’s argument can be made more intuitive if we consider phenomenology to be the study of truth rather than knowledge, and if we see the reduction as primarily a m…Read more
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178Introduction to PhenomenologyCambridge University Press. 1999.This book presents the major philosophical doctrines of phenomenology in a clear, lively style with an abundance of examples. The book examines such phenomena as perception, pictures, imagination, memory, language, and reference, and shows how human thinking arises from experience. It also studies personal identity as established through time and discusses the nature of philosophy. In addition to providing a new interpretation of the correspondence theory of truth, the author also explains how p…Read more
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151J. N. Mohanty. The philosophy of Edmund Husserl: A historical development (review)Husserl Studies 25 (3): 255-260. 2009.
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150The Formation of Husserl’s Concept of ConstitutionM. Nijhoff. 1964.In tracing the formation of Husserl's concept of constitution, we hope to further the understanding of what he considers a philosophical explanation. ...
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128The logic of parts and wholes in Husserl's investigationsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 28 (4): 537-553. 1968.
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117Phenomenology of the human personCambridge University Press. 2008.In this book, Robert Sokolowski argues that being a person means to be involved with truth. He shows that human reason is established by syntactic composition in language, pictures, and actions and that we understand things when they are presented to us through syntax. Sokolowski highlights the role of the spoken word in human reason and examines the bodily and neurological basis for human experience. Drawing on Husserl and Aristotle, as well as Aquinas and Henry James, Sokolowski here employs p…Read more
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112Phenomenology of FriendshipReview of Metaphysics 55 (3). 2002.IN THIS ESSAY, WE WILL USE ARISTOTLE to bring out some important features of friendship and of moral action in general; we will show that friendship is the highest kind of moral excellence. We will then make use of phenomenology to determine the kinds of intelligence that provide the substance of both moral conduct and friendship. Moral action and friendship are defined by special kinds of rational form, and it will be our goal to describe these forms.
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102Matter, elements and substance in AristotleJournal of the History of Philosophy 8 (3): 263-288. 1970.
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102Transcendental PhenomenologyThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 7 233-241. 2000.Transcendental phenomenology is the mind’s self-discovery in the presence of intelligible objects. I differentiate the phenomenological sense of “transcendental” from its scholastic and Kantian senses, and show how the transcendental dimension cannot be eliminated from human discourse. I try to clarify the difference between prephilosophical uses of reason and the phenomenological use, and I suggest that the method followed by transcendental phenomenology is the working out of strategic distinct…Read more
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100The structure and content of Husserl'slogical investigationsInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 14 (1-4): 318-347. 1971.
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85Making DistinctionsReview of Metaphysics 32 (4). 1979.Distinctions are set in obscurity and imagination. Distinctions are not made anywhere and anytime, nor are they made in no place and at no time; they are made in a situation in which they are called for. Distinctions push against an obscurity that needs the distinction in question. In the story about Jack and the doctor, the obscurity against which the distinction is made is included as part of the story; in the quotation from Chaucer the obscurity that provides the setting for the distinction i…Read more
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62Being and Number in Heidegger's ThoughtHistory and Philosophy of Logic 30 (2): 202-204. 2009.M. ROUBACH. Being and Number in Heidegger's Thought. Translation from the Hebrew by Nessa Olshansky-Ashtar. London and New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008. viii + 139 pp. £65.0...
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60Exorcising conceptsReview of Metaphysics 40 (3): 451-463. 1987.FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE says that a word is composed of two parts, a sound-image and a concept: "The linguistic sign unites not a thing and a name, but a concept and an acoustic image." The sound-image signifies the concept: the sound-image is the signifier, the concept is the signified. De Saussure is only one of a large company of thinkers who describe words in this way. Most philosophical and semiotic analyses of words claim that words have two components, a dimension of sounds and a dimension …Read more
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57Husserl and Analytic Philosophy, by Richard Cobb-Stevens; Husserlian Intentionality and Non-Foundational Realism, by John J. Drummond (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (3): 725-730. 1992.
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56Visual Intelligence in PaintingReview of Metaphysics 59 (2): 333-354. 2005.Philosophers have long agreed that thinking is expressed in the use of language, that we “think in the medium of words.” It is also true, however, that we think in the medium of pictures, and it is likely that these two ways of thinking are interrelated; certainly, we could not think in pictures if we did not have words, and perhaps we could not use words, in principle, unless we were also engaged in some sort of picturing, at least in our imagination. An ideographic language like Chinese would …Read more
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56Identities in manifolds: A Husserlian pattern of thoughtResearch in Phenomenology 4 (1): 63-79. 1974.
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55Honor, Anger, and Belittlement in Aristotle’s EthicsStudia Gilsoniana 3. 2014.The author considers the phenomenon of honor (timē) by examining Aristotle’s description of it and its role in ethical and political life. His study of honor leads him to two related phenomena, anger (orgē) and belittlement or contempt (oligōria); examining them helps him define honor more precisely. With his examination of honor the author shows how densely interwoven Aristotle’s ethical theory is; he illuminates such diverse things as the human good, political life and friendship, virtue, vice…Read more
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55The Relation of Phenomenology and Thomistic Metaphysics to ReligionReview of Metaphysics 67 (3): 603-626. 2014.The first part of this essay presents Patrick Masterson’s exposition of the phenomenology of religion developed by Jean-Luc Marion, and his exposition of the Thomistic philosophy of religion. Masterson argues that phenomenology can be helpful as an analysis of faith and religious experience, but it remains within subjective immanence. It needs to be complemented by a metaphysical analysis that deals with causation and explanation, as Thomism does. The essay then makes three points: first, that p…Read more
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53Husserl on First PhilosophyIn Carlo Ierna, Hanne Jaccobs & Filip Mattens (eds.), PHILOSOPHY PHENOMENOLOGY SCIENCES, Springer. 2010.
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51Roman Ingarden, On the Motives which Led Husserl to Transcendental Idealism (review)Journal of Philosophy 74 (3): 176-180. 1977.
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46Dieter Lohmar, Edmund husserls 'formale und transzendentale logik'Husserl Studies 18 (3): 233-243. 2002.
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