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Transcendental Phenomenology as Irony?Phänomenologische Forschungen 2019 (2): 187-205. 2019.Richard Rorty famously characterized the attitude of philosophical pragmatism as a kind of irony with respect to traditional metaphysical positions or “final vocabularies.” In both Husserl and Heidegger, phenomenology is a kind of transcendental philosophy and so would seem, despite the many connections between phenomenology and pragmatism, to be “metaphysical” in Rorty’s sense. But, as I shall argue, it too gives rise to a certain attitudinal irony. The argument will proceed by first examining …Read more
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New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy III (2003)Acumen Publishing. 2003.CONTENTS James G. Hart: Wisdom, Knowledge, and Reflective Joy: Aristotle and Husserl Wayne Martin: Judgment Stroke-Truth Predicate: Frege and the Phenomenology of Judgment David R. Cerbone: Distance and Proximity in Phenomenology: Husserl and Heidegger Ra·l GutiTrrez: "The Logic of Decadence": Deficient Forms of Government in the Republic Heribert Boeder: Derrida's Endgame Jacques Derrida: Phenomenology and the Closure of Metaphysics (1966) Hans Rainer Sepp: Jan Patocka and Cultural Difference C…Read more
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New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy v (2005)Acumen Publishing. 2005.CONTENTS Carlo Ierna: The Beginnings of Husserl's Philosophy. Part 1: From ber den Begriff der Zahl to Philosophie der Arithmetik Robin Rollinger: Scientific Philosophy, Phenomenology, and Logic: The Standpoint of Paul Linke\ Nicholas deWarren:The Significance of Stern's "PrSsenzzeit" for Husserl's Phenomenology of Inner Time-Consciousness Sen Overgaard: Being There: Heidegger's Formally Indicative Concept of "Dasein" Panos Theodorou: Perceptual and Scientific Thing: On Husserl's Analysis of 'Na…Read more
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New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy II (2002)Acumen Publishing. 2002.CONTENTS Tom Nenon: Freedom, Responsibility, and Self-Awareness in Husserl Steven Galt Crowell: Authentic Thinking and Phenomenological Method Burt C. Hopkins: Authentic and Symbolic Numbers in Husserl's Philosophy of Arithmetic Karl Schuhmann: The Development of Speech Act Theory in Munich Phenomenology Gianfranco Soldati: Early Phenomenology and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy Heribert Boeder: The Submodern Character of Linguistic Analysis Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert: On Oskar Becker's Pheno…Read more
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New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy IV (2004)Acumen Publishing. 2004.CONTENTS Rudolf Bernet: Husserl's Transcendental Idealism Revisited Ian Angus: In Praise of Fire: Responsibility, Manifestation, Polemos, Circumspection Dieter Lohmar: Husserl's Hesitant Revisionism in the Field of Logic Torsten Pietrek: A Reconstruction of Phenomenological Method for Metaethics Renaud Barabas: Sensing and Creating: Phenomenology and the Unity of Aesthetics Christian Lotz: Recollection, Mourning and the Absolute Past. Husserl, Freud and Derrida Karlheinz Ruhstorfer: Adieu: Derri…Read more
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5Husserlian PhenomenologyIn Hubert L. Dreyfus & Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism, Wiley-blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Phenomenology and Twentieth‐Century Thought Husserl's “Breakthrough” to Phenomenology: Intentionality and Reflection Philosophical Implications of Phenomenology: Transcendental Idealism Horizons of Husserlian Phenomenology.
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13Heidegger and Husserl: The Matter and Method of PhilosophyIn Hubert L. Dreyfus & Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), A Companion to Heidegger, Wiley-blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: The Academic Relationship Contested Philosophical Issues, Part I: The Matter of Philosophy Contested Philosophical Issues, Part II: The Method of Philosophy.
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5Neo‐KantianismIn Simon Critchley & William Ralph Schroeder (eds.), A Companion to Continental Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 1998.Neo‐Kantianism, a movement with roots deep in the nineteenth century, dominated German academic philosophy between 1890 and 1920. Though it carried the impulse of German Idealism into the culture of the twentieth century and set the agenda for philosophies which displaced it, the movement is little studied now. One encounters it primarily in liberation narratives constructed by those whose own thinking took shape in the clash between neo‐Kantianism and the “rebellious” interwar generation spearh…Read more
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27Grenzprobleme of Phenomenology: MetaphysicsIn Patrick Londen, Jeffrey Yoshimi & Philip Walsh (eds.), Horizons of Phenomenology: Essays on the State of the Field and Its Applications, Springer Verlag. pp. 171-193. 2023.With the publication of the Husserliana series and Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe both nearing completion, a strikingly different picture of their work than was available to earlier generations is emerging. It has become quite clear that phenomenological philosophy is not a fixed “system” but an ongoing philosophical practice that has much to contribute to debates in contemporary philosophy generally. It would be impossible here to canvass all the “horizons” of phenomenology that this situation has o…Read more
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26Rationalism in HistoryDiacritics 33 (1): 3-22. 2003.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Diacritics 33.1 (2003) 3-22 [Access article in PDF] Rationalism in History Steven Crowell Mark Bevir. The Logic of the History of Ideas. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. [L] When Hegel spoke of history as the "slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of states, and the virtue of individuals have been sacrificed" [27], he wished his hearers to find satisfaction in the contemplation of a "reason" in history that woul…Read more
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39Book review: Transcendental phenomenology and the “generation” gap. Anthony Steinbock, home and beyond (review)Human Studies 21 (1): 87-95. 1998.
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The middle Heidegger's phenomenologyIn Dan Zahavi (ed.), Oxford Handbook of the History of Phenomenology, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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7In Search of George PsathasSchutzian Research 14 15-21. 2023.This essay begins with some of the author’s recollections of George Psathas during their collaboration in organizing and administering the annual Schutz Lecture. These lead to reflections on the role of phenomenology in social scientific method, as represented, in different ways, by Schutz, Goffman, and Garfinkel. Examining a tension between cognitivist and pragmatic approaches to the normative orders in which social life takes place, George Psathas identifies a distinctive role for phenomenolog…Read more
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15Heidegger’s Metapolitics: Phenomenology, Metaphysics, and the VolkIn Anna Bortolan & Elisa Magrì (eds.), Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Social World: The Continued Relevance of Phenomenology. Essays in Honour of Dermot Moran, Degruyter. pp. 461-484. 2022.
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26Heidegger Becoming Phenomenological: Interpreting Husserl through Dilthey, 1916–1925 by Robert C. ScharffJournal of the History of Philosophy 59 (2): 341-342. 2021.Robert Scharff's new book wants to set the record straight. For too long, scholars have focused on the topic of Heidegger's thinking, being, and have read Being and Time as a hermeneutic revision of Husserl's transcendental phenomenology, which, like the latter, "takes positions" on philosophical questions, advances "theses," and, for all its emphasis on subjective experience, invites "objective" assessment. Scharff's alternative picture, focused almost exclusively on Heidegger's lecture courses…Read more
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422Introduction: the phenomenological method todayContinental Philosophy Review 54 (2): 119-121. 2021.
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86On what matters. Personal identity as a phenomenological problemPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 20 (2): 261-279. 2020.This paper focuses on the connection between meaning, the specific field of phenomenological philosophy, and mattering, the cornerstone of personal identity. Doing so requires that we take a stand on the scope and method of phenomenological philosophy itself. I will argue that while we can describe our lives in an “impersonal” way, such descriptions will necessarily omit what makes it the case that such lives can matter at all. This will require distinguishing between “personal” identity and “se…Read more
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12Amphibian DreamsIn Iulian Apostolescu & Claudia Serban (eds.), Husserl, Kant and Transcendental Phenomenology, De Gruyter. pp. 479-504. 2020.
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14Kant and the Phenomenology of LifeIn Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing & David Wagner (eds.), Natur und Freiheit. Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 159-184. 2018.
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49Phenomenology, Ontology, Nihilism: Løgstrup, Levinas, and the Limits of Philosophical AnthropologyThe Monist 103 (1): 16-37. 2020.Despite recent interest in his work, little has been written about Løgstrup’s relation to phenomenology—what he thinks phenomenology is, how it informs his approach to ethics, and what he believes it can accomplish. Here I hope to stimulate further discussion of these matters. In this, consideration of Levinas’s understanding of phenomenology will be useful. While sharing many of Løgstrup’s concerns, Levinas insists on a distinction between phenomenological ontology and “metaphysics,” one that L…Read more
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1Responsibility, autonomy, affectivity: A Heideggerian approachIn Denis McManus (ed.), Heidegger, Authenticity, and the Self: Themes From Division Two of Being and Time, Routledge. pp. 215-242. 2014.
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38Why is Ethics First Philosophy? Levinas in Phenomenological ContextEuropean Journal of Philosophy 23 (3): 564-588. 2015.This paper explores, from a phenomenological perspective, the conditions necessary for the possession of intentional content, i.e., for being intentionally directed toward the world. It argues that Levinas's concept of ethics as first philosophy makes an important contribution to this task. Intentional directedness, as understood here, is normatively structured. Levinas's ‘ethics’ can be understood as a phenomenological account of how our experience of the other subject as another subject takes …Read more
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2The Reach of Reflection: Issues for Phenomenology's Second Century (edited book)An Electron Press Original. 2001.
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46The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism (edited book)Cambridge University Press.. 2012.Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. As a philosophical phenomenon, though, it is often poorly understood, as a form of radical subjectivism that turns its back on reason and argumentation and possesses all the liabilities of philosophical idealism but without any idealistic conceptual clarity. In this volume of original essays, the first to be devoted exclusively to existentialism in over forty years, a team of distinguished commentators …Read more
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