Category: Husserl
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Edith Stein: Faith, Reason, and Method
August 9th is the feast day of St. Theresa Benedicta of the Cross in the Catholic liturgy. She is better known to philosophers as Edith Stein (1891-1942), brilliant Jewish student of and assistant to Edmund Husserl, philosopher in her own right, Roman Catholic convert, Carmelite nun, victim of the Holocaust at Auschwitz, and saint of…
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Butchvarov’s Paradox of Antirealism and Husserl’s Paradox of Human Subjectivity
Top o' the Stack. UPDATE (8/4/2025). Matteo writes, "As for your latest post on Substack about the dehumanization of the ego, there is this Italian philosopher who holds a very similar view (consciousness and the world are the very same thing, we literally ARE the world etc." https://archive.org/details/spreadmindwhycon0000manz
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Edmund Husserl
A Substack birthday tribute.
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A Hitherto Unknown Portrait of Edmund Husserl and his Relation to Leonard Nelson
Sketch found in the notebooks of Leonard Nelson. This page offers some insights into the Husserl-Nelson relationship if you want to call it that. Husserl appears in a churlish light as a Fachphilosoph looking down on a lowly dozent and perceived amateur. Husserl apparently ignored or dismissed Nelson's The Impossibility of the Theory of Knowledge…
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Butchvarov’s Paradox of Antirealism and Husserl’s Paradox of Human Subjectivity
New and improved! Originally posted in October, 2015. For a longish review and critique of the Butchvarov volume mentioned below, see my "Butchvarov on the Dehumanization of Philosophy," Studia Neoaristotelica, vol. 13, no. 2 (2016), pp. 181-195. Butchvarov and Husserl are clearly related to my present and ongoing rehearsal of the problematic of Kantian transcendental…
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Husserl, Thomas, and Sister Adelgundis
Substack latest. A meditation on Husserl's birthday.
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Excerpts from Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences
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Object-Directedness and Object-Dependence
Intentionality cannot be identified with object-dependence. Here is why. Suppose that I begin thinking about some faraway thing such as the Washington Monument (WM) and that I think of it without interruption through some short interval of time. Half-way through the interval, unbeknownst to me, the monument is destroyed and ceases to exist. Question: does…
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Analysis of a Passage from Husserl’s Logical Investigations
Ed sends this: Just found this very odd quote from Logical Investigations: If I have an idea of the god Jupiter, this god is my presented object, he is ‘immanently present’ in my act, he has ‘mental inexistence’ in the latter, or whatever expression we may use to disguise our true meaning. I have an idea…
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Notes on the Introduction to Michel Henry, Incarnation: A Philosophy of Flesh
I have Steven Nemes to thank for introducing me to the thought of Michel Henry. I recall as a graduate student in the 'seventies having seen a big fat tome published in 1973 by Martinus Nijhoff entitled The Essence of Manifestation by one Michel Henry. I may have paged through parts of it back then,…
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A Discussion with Lukas Novak about Transcendental Idealism and the Transcendental Ego
The extended comment thread below began life in the comments to Why Did I Move Away from Phenomenology? (13 October 2020) ……………………….. Dear Bill, You have exactly nailed my fundamental problem with transcendental idealism by this: What is this transcendental ego if it is the purely subjective source of all ontic validity, Seinsgeltung? Does it exist?…
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On the Manifold Meanings of ‘World’
A reader asked whether the concept world in the transcendental-phenomenological sense is a limit concept. Before addressing that question, and continuing the series on limit concepts, a survey of the several senses of 'world ' is in order, or at least those senses with some philosophical or proto-philosophical relevance. 1) In the planetary sense, the…
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Husserl and Heidegger
Husserl seems to think that everything can be brought into the light of adequate, indeed apodictic, evidence. The dark and hidden get their revenge in his most distinguished student, Heidegger.