CFA – Phenomenology, Pragmatism, and Mysticism (NASEP 2024)

The North American Society for Early Phenomenology

Phenomenology, Pragmatism, and Mysticism

7-8 June 2024
University of New Brunswick
Saint John, New Brunswick

Keynote Speakers

Jason Bell (University of New Brunswick Fredericton)

Patrick Eldridge (University of New Brunswick Saint John)

The North American Society for Early Phenomenology invites abstracts for papers on phenomenological work related to phenomenological encounters with pragmatism and mysticism for our annual conference.

Phenomenology and pragmatism have often dealt with overlapping concerns while neglecting to communicate. While it has been surmised that the European phenomenologists were less than enthusiastic to engage with the North American pragmatists, we also know that Husserl and others were reading James and possibly other pragmatists. One of the most evident areas of overlap with significant room for collaboration (or possibly forceful disagreement) is the realm of mysticism. For this conference, we aim to promote work that engages directly with the intersections of phenomenology and pragmatism or mysticism (their mutual histories, their actual or potential agreements and disagreements), or work that advances an account of topics relevant to both disciplines, such as intentionality, the a priori, states of affairs, temporality, perception and judgment, embodiment, naturalism, psychologism, aesthetics, etc.

As always, we encourage submissions dealing with the thought of the full spectrum of early phenomenologists (including Edmund Husserl, Franz Brentano, Carl Stumpf, Theodor Lipps, Alexander Pfänder, Gerda Walther, Oscar Becker, Max Scheler, Fritz Kaufmann Moritz Geiger, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Eugen Fink, Roman Ingarden, Edith Stein, Dietrich Von Hildebrand, Adolf Reinach, Maximilian Beck, Jean Hering, Henri Bergson, Emmanuel Levinas, et al.) as well as figures who were in conversation with or influenced the early phenomenological movement (including James, Royce, and Peirce).

We especially encourage submissions from individuals who identify as members of groups currently underrepresented in philosophy and academia more generally.

Abstracts should be 400-600 words and include a short bibliography. Abstracts must be prepared for blind review and sent to Charlene Elsby (celsby@ingarden.org).

Deadline for submissions is February 1st, 2024.

Decisions will be sent out no later than March 1st, 2024.

 

 

NASEP 2023 Conference – Intuition, Creation, Duration, and Relativity

The North American Society for Early Phenomenology

Intuition, Creation, Duration, and Relativity

2-4 June 2023
University of San Diego, San Diego, California Humanities Center

Keynote Speakers:

Michael Kelly (University of San Diego)
“Bergson’s intuitive Philosophy of Life?”

Clinton Tolley (University of California San Diego)
“Scheler, Stein, and the ‘Spiritual’ Dialectic of Phenomenology of the 1910’s”

Robin M. Muller (California State University Northridge)
“Merleau-Ponty on Movement and Relativity, or, the ‘Irrepressible Consciousness’ of Einstein’s Little Finger”

Theme

The concepts of intuition, creation, duration, and relativity pervade the work of early phenomenologists in their rejection of both rationalism and empiricism. This conference gives special attention to Bergson’s influence on phenomenology, particularly in relation to these themes, along with contemporary work related to these topics. Variations in phenomenological reduction and intuition, thematization of metaphor and analogy, metaphysics of creation and time, spirituality and religion, idealism and realism and the existence of the world—all of these phenomenological concepts made their appearances in conversations between and around Husserl and Bergson and other early phenomenologists a century ago, and return today.

We also represent the North American Roman Ingarden Society at this conference, with a session featuring talks by Mark Roberts (Franciscan University of Stubenville) and Jeff Mitscherling (University of Guelph) on, respectively, Ingarden’s ideas about hypothetical judgment and on the essence of the soul. The conference also highlights other figures from early phenomenology including Theodor Lipps, Adolf Reinach, Edith Stein, Theodor Conrad, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Max Scheler, Nicolai Hartmann, Roman Ingarden, Emmanuel Levinas, Vladimir Jankélévitch, and Pierre Hadot.

Conference Program

For the conference schedule click here.

Conference Map

The conference will held in the USD Humanities Center. For a campus map click here.

Accommodations

NASEP has secured a group rate of $239 at the Best Western Plus Hacienda Hotel Old Town at 4041 Harney St. Should you wish to take advantage of the group rate, please make reservations by calling the hotel directly at (619) 298-4707, and make sure to mention that you are booking with the North American Society for Early Phenomenology, or use the booking link here: click here. The group rate will expire on May 11, 2023.

Conference Registration

Registration fees are payable in advance of the conference through PayPal. Individuals who don’t have a PayPal account may pay on site by cash or check. Registration fees allow us to provide coffee throughout the conference and support the society’s activities.

Registration fees are in USD:
$100 for full-time faculty participating in-person
$40 for students, postdocs and underfunded faculty members, including adjuncts participating in-person
$50 for full-time faculty participating virtually
FREE for students, postdocs and underfunded faculty members participating virtually

Individuals may use this link to pay in advance through PayPal (choose the amount appropriate to your category). Receipts will be provided at the conference (or by email for virtual participants):

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CFA – Intuition, Creation, Duration, and Relativity (NASEP 2023)

The North American Society for Early Phenomenology

 Intuition, Creation, Duration, and Relativity

2-4 June 2023
University of San Diego
San Diego, California

Keynote Speakers

Michael Kelly (University of San Diego)

Robin Muller (California State University Northridge)

Clinton Tolley (University of California San Diego)

The North American Society for Early Phenomenology invites abstracts for papers on phenomenological work related to intuition, creation, duration, and relativity for our annual conference.

In the phenomenological rejection of both rationalism and empiricism, the concepts of intuition, creation, duration and relativity pervade the work of early phenomenologists. For this conference, we invite work on these concepts, with special attention to Henri Bergson’s influence on phenomenology, along with contemporary work related to these concepts. Scholarly papers on the history of phenomenology are welcomed alongside work developed with an awareness of the method of reductions common to early phenomenologists. For example, intuition and how Husserl adapted it to the reception of the eidos his developing exegesis of the phenomenological method of reductions, creation and its attendant metaphysics, freedom and determinism, open and closed morality, static and dynamic religion, order and chaos, time and its relation to consciousness, and relativity in conversation with scientific pursuits, change, movement, unity and multiplicity—all of these phenomenological concepts bespeak a metaphysics (or perhaps epistemology) that diverges from more well-known analytic counterparts.

As always, we encourage submissions dealing with the thought of the full spectrum of early phenomenologists (including Edmund Husserl, Franz Brentano, Carl Stumpf, Theodor Lipps, Alexander Pfänder, Max Scheler, Moritz Geiger, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Eugen Fink, Roman Ingarden, Edith Stein, Dietrich Von Hildebrand, Adolf Reinach, Maximilian Beck, Jean Hering, Henri Bergson, Emmanuel Levinas, et al.) as well as figures who were in conversation with or influenced the early phenomenological movement (Ravaisson, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, etc).

We especially encourage submissions from individuals who identify as members of groups currently underrepresented in philosophy and academia more generally.

Abstracts should be 400-600 words and include a short bibliography. Abstracts must be prepared for blind review and sent to Charlene Elsby (celsby@ingarden.org).

Deadline for submissions is February 1st, 2023.

Decisions will be sent out no later than March 1st, 2023.

CFP – Essences and Ideas (NASEP 2022)

The North American Society for Early Phenomenology

Essences and Ideas:
Metaphysics and Religion in Early Phenomenology

28-30 April 2022
Dominican University College
Ottawa, Ontario

Keynote Speakers

Christina M. Gschwandtner (Fordham University)

Antonio Calcagno (King’s University College, Western University)

Call for Abstracts

“Already now we can name a basic tenet, recognized in like manner (though not adopted as untested presupposition) by all phenomenologically oriented philosophers: the existence of entities that are not given empirically [nichtempirischer Gegebenheiten] and that make so-called a priori research possible.” Jean Hering, tr. Arthur Szylewicz

Phenomenology developed with an attendant metaphysics that is highly informed by concepts shared with religion. Dichotomies such as empirical and a priori, finite and infinite, temporal and atemporal, essence and idea, mundane and divine, material and immaterial, subsistence and existence, non-being and being (along with others), are constitutive of early phenomenology’s methods and tenets. While Husserl envisioned phenomenology as “metaphysically neutral” and attempted to keep his personal religious views separate from his scientific work, figures such as Stein and Scheler did not hide the fact that their metaphysical and religious views informed their investigations. Brentano and members of his school were deeply influenced by Aristotelian metaphysics, and this legacy can be seen in the works of Reinach and Ingarden. The presence of Platonism in early phenomenology and the implications of phenomenological idealism remain topics of debate. This conference will explore the metaphysical currents within early phenomenology, as well as the role that religious convictions played in their development.

As always, we encourage submissions dealing with the thought of the full spectrum of early phenomenologists (including Edmund Husserl, Franz Brentano, Carl Stumpf, Theodor Lipps, Alexander Pfänder, Max Scheler, Moritz Geiger, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Eugen Fink, Roman Ingarden, Edith Stein, Dietrich Von Hildebrand, Adolf Reinach, Maximilian Beck, Jean Hering, Henri Bergson, Emmanuel Levinas, et al.) as well as figures who were in conversation with the early phenomenological movement.

We especially encourage submissions from individuals who identify as members of groups currently underrepresented in philosophy and academia more generally.

Abstracts should be 400-600 words and include a short bibliography. Abstracts must be prepared for blind review and sent to Charlene Elsby (celsby@ingarden.org).

Extended deadline for submissions is February 20th, 2022.

Decisions will be sent out no later than March 1st, 2022.

Conference cancellation

Dear Friends of the North American Society for Early Phenomenology and the Max Scheler Society of North America,

The executives of both societies have been closely monitoring both governmental and institutional responses to the COVID-19 virus. The continued health and well-being of our members and conference participants is our paramount concern. It is important to take this pandemic seriously, but also avoid unnecessary panic. Given the developments of the last 24 hours and after thoughtful deliberation, we have determined that the upcoming conference at St. John’s University will be cancelled.

St. John’s University has already closed its campuses for March and may decide to close for April as well. There are no known cases of COVID-19 at this time on any of the St. John’s University campuses or locations. However, given the declaration of a state of emergency in New York state and the lockdown of New Rochelle, New York City may well begin to shut down more fully in the weeks ahead. As many of you know, President Trump has effectively banned travel from Europe to the US. While this is only in place for 30 days, we cannot be confident that the ban will be lifted before our conference. This means that many of our attendees may not be able to travel to New York in April.

Concerning domestic travel, while there are no such bans in place, many universities in North America have suspended funding for conference travel. This again means that many of our planned attendees will not be able to come to New York. While we considered postponing the conference to a later date, there will certainly be other factors by then that will necessitate significant changes to the program. Therefore, we thought it best to cancel and try again next year.
For those of you who have already arranged travel and accommodations, we sincerely hope that these arrangements can be undone, or put to some other good use.

CFP – Phenomenology as Method (NASEP 2020)

The North American Society for Early Phenomenology | Max Scheler Society of North America

Phenomenology as Method

22-24 April 2020
St. John’s University
Manhattan Campus, 101 Astor Place
New York, New York

Keynote Speakers:

David Carr (New School for Social Research)
Crina Gschwandtner (Fordham University)
Wolfhart Henckmann (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

Call for abstracts

Since its inception, phenomenology has been understood as a method of philosophizing or philosophical attitude rather than a system of philosophy. Husserl encouraged his students to apply this method to all types of philosophical questions and across all fields of research. As a result, phenomenological analysis was used by a wide range of disciplines, from philosophy and psychology to literature, history, sociology, mathematics, cosmology, and religious studies. The phenomenological method itself has been refined according to the insights achieved as a result of its interdisciplinary nature. However, the core tenets of this method and characterization of this attitude have long been a point of debate among phenomenologists.

This conference will explore the nature of the phenomenological method, its interdisciplinary applications, and how research in parallel fields informed the work of the early phenomenologists.

As always, we encourage submissions dealing with the thought of the full spectrum of early phenomenologists (including Edmund Husserl, Franz Brentano, Carl Stumpf, Theodor Lipps, Alexander Pfänder, Max Scheler, Moritz Geiger, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Eugen Fink, Roman Ingarden, Edith Stein, Dietrich Von Hildebrand, Adolf Reinach, Martin Heidegger, Maximilian Beck, Jean Hering, et al.) as well as figures who were in conversation with the early phenomenological movement.

Abstracts should be 400-600 words, and include a short bibliography. Abstracts must be prepared for blind review and sent to Charlene Elsby (elsbyc@pfw.edu)

Deadline for submissions is 26 January 2020.

Decisions will be sent out no later than 7 February 2020.

Click here to download this call

CFA – Aristotle in Phenomenology

Call for abstracts

Aristotle in Phenomenology

April 23-24, 2016

Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne, Indiana

Aristotelian concepts persist in the works of Franz Brentano, who was a prolific Aristotle commentator as well as Edmund Husserl’s teacher. Later phenomenologists continue to exhibit both implicit and explicit Aristotelianism. The purpose of this conference is to elucidate the effect of Aristotle’s writings on phenomenology and the history of phenomenology.

Abstracts should be 300-500 words, prepared for blind review.

Please submit abstracts and current CV to Dr. Charlene Elsby at elsbyc@ipfw.edu.

Deadline for submissions is 15 January, 2016.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out February 15th, 2016.

See PhilEvents here: http://philevents.org/event/show/18569

Sponsored by the Philosophy Department and the College of Arts and Sciences at IPFW.

CFA – NASEP 2016

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The North American Society for Early Phenomenology

in conjunction with

The Max Scheler Society of North America

Presents 

Feeling, Valuing, and Judging: Phenomenological Investigations in Axiology

May 19th-21st, 2016

St. John’s University – Manhattan Campus

Invited Speakers

  • Anthony Steinbock (Southern Illinois University – Carbondale)
  • John Drummond (Fordham University)
  • James Dodd (New School for Social Research)

Call for Abstracts

Feelings, values, and judgements all played central roles in the philosophical writings of the early phenomenologists – from their discussions of formalism in ethics, to social ontology, the phenomenology of moods and emotions, and even the phenomenology of religion. Though heavily inspired by the work of Edmund Husserl, Max Scheler and the Munich phenomenologists conceived phenomenology as less a method and more an attitude, and developed their phenomenological investigations accordingly. With the phenomenological attitude, the meaning of the object of cognition is revealed. Doxic, volitional, and affective intentional attitudes gives rise to phenomenological descriptions of the world in terms of its meaning and value. Understood in this way, the early phenomenologists saw questions of value as arising alongside questions of ontology.

The theme of this conference will be phenomenological studies in axiology (ethics and aesthetics), and will look at the relationship of intuition, the emotions, and intersubjectivity to acts of feeling, valuing, and judging. Topics include phenomenological theories of valuation, the departure of later phenomenologists from Husserl’s and Brentano’s distinctions of types of mental phenomena, axiological properties of intentional objects, the self as a member of a community, sympathy and empathy, criteria for correct and incorrect value judgments, the difference between axiological and ontic characteristics and fact-value differentiation, axiology in universals and particulars, judgments of value and the role of implicit beliefs, phenomenological descriptions of striving, volition, emotions, moods, the beautiful and the sublime, etc. We encourage papers on the work of Franz Brentano, Edmund Husserl, Theodor Lipps, Max Scheler, Alexander Pfänder, Moritz Geiger, Josef Geyser, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Siegfried Hamburger, Nicolai Hartmann, Waldemar Conrad, Aurel Kolnai, Roman Ingarden, Edith Stein, Emmanuel Levinas, Hans Reiner, and others. We are also interested in papers proposing original phenomenological descriptions of emotions, feelings, volition, and judgments that follow the phenomenological tradition, and build upon these historical antecedents in new and interesting ways.

Abstracts should be 500-700 words, and include a short bibliography of primary and secondary sources.  All abstracts must be prepared for blind review and sent via email in .doc or .docx format to Dr. Rodney Parker at: (rodney.k.b.parker@gmail.com).

Both senior researchers and graduate students are encouraged to submit.

Deadline for submissions is: December 15, 2015.

Click here for a .pdf version of the call for abstracts.

CFP – Women Phenomenologists on Social Ontology

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Women Phenomenologists

on

Social Ontology

February 11-13th 2016
University of Paderborn, Germany

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Description

Contrary to many movements in the history of philosophy, the “Phenomenological Movement” has from its beginnings included numerous female philosophers. They contributed substantially to the phenomenological project by developing outstanding philosophical accounts and addressing problems, which remain relevant until today. Phenomenology’s exceptionally modern outlook, not to let oneself be influenced by traditional authorities, but rather to only receive guidance from ”the things themselves”, allowed its female proponents to achieve a position in the academic world few women could enjoy at the time. From today’s perspective, the most noteworthy issues that some of the prominent female phenomenologists elaborated on fall under the scope of what one would today label social ontology and political philosophy.

The conference will investigate specifically the contribution of women phenomenologists in this field. The programme focuses on, but is not restricted to, the following philosophers: Hannah Arendt, Luce Irigaray, Edith Stein, Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Gerda Walther.

For full and up-to-date information, please visit the official conference website regularly.

The list of invited speakers includes:

Prof. Dr. Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir
University of Iceland/University of Helsinki, Finland

Prof. Dr. Ronny Miron
Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Prof. Dr. Antonio Calcagno
Western University, Canada

Prof. Dr. Hans Bernhard Schmid
University of Wien, Austria

Prof. Dr. Julia Jansen
KU Leuven, Belgium

Prof. Dr. Sara Heinämaa
University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Luft
Marquette University, USA/University of Paderborn, Germany

Prof. Dr. Ruth Hagengruber
University of Paderborn, Germany

Dr. Michela Summa
University of Würzburg, Germany

Dr. Alessandro Salice
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Dr. Thomas Szanto
University of Wien, Austria

Dr. Anna Varga-Jani
Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

Registration

Presentations by invited speakers will take place on February 11th and 12th. To register, please send an e-mail to Julia Mühl jmuehl@mail.upb.de. The registration fee of 10 € will be collected upon arrival. It will be also possible to make reservations for the conference dinner (February 11th) for 40€. The event will be followed by a graduate and post-graduate student conference on “Women Phenomenologists on Social Ontology,” February 13th 2016 at the University of Paderborn.

Call for Papers

Submission guidelines:

Presentation of the papers should take a maximum of 30 minutes and will be followed by a general discussion (15 min). Proposal for papers should include the speaker’s name and institutional affiliation, title and an abstract (up to 300 words). The conference language is English.
The submission deadline is November 1st 2015.

Notification of paper acceptance will be given by December 15th 2015.
The best paper by a graduate/post-graduate student will be awarded a prize of 100 €.
Download as PDF: Link

Contact

In case of any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us:
Dr. Maria Robaszkiewicz, maria.robaszkiewicz@upb.de
Julia Mühl, jmuehl@mail.upb.de

Conference organizers:

Prof. Dr. Ruth Hagengruber & Prof. Dr. Sebastian Luft

NYPPP 2016 – Phenomenology of Emotions: Systematic and Historical Perspectives

The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy (2016)

Invites submissions on the following topic: 

Phenomenology of Emotions:
Systematic and Historical Perspectives

Guest Editors: Rodney K.B. Parker & Ignacio Quepons

The emotions (Gefühlen, Stimmungen) have been a topic of phenomenological analysis since the beginning of the phenomenological movement.  In recent years there has been a general turn toward a serious reconsideration of emotional experience in philosophy and in the social and cognitive sciences.  This has led to an increased interest in the phenomenological descriptions of emotion developed by Edmund Husserl and his early followers, and how their work might shed light on current problems and debates.

We welcome submissions on systematic and historical aspects of the phenomenology of emotions, with emphasis on Husserl and the early reception of his work on emotion; current developments in phenomenology of emotions; valuing and action in transcendental phenomenology; and the historical antecedents of the problem of the intentionality of emotions within phenomenological research. The writings of Franz Brentano, Edmund Husserl, Carl Stumpf, Theodor Lipps, Moritz Geiger, Alexander Pfänder, Max Scheler, Maximilian Beck, Else Voigtländer, Margarete Calinich, Aurel Kolnai and Stephan Strasser, among others, are of particular interest. We are open to receive contributions on the topic of intentionality of emotions in other philosophical traditions if the paper emphasizes, compares or criticizes an important aspect of the phenomenological account of emotions.

Articles can be no longer than 75.000 characters, including spaces and footnotes. All submissions should be prepared for blind review, and sent to queponsi@seattleu.edu by 30 December, 2015.

Confirmed invited contributors:

Anthony Steinbock Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Antonio Zirión Q. National and Autonomous University of Mexico
Ingrid Vendrell Ferran University of Marburg
Mariano Crespo University of Navarra
John Drummond  Fordham University
Panos Theodorou University of Crete