Reading Room Update – Lipps-Festschrift

In this update, we are sharing with you the Festschrift for Theodor Lipps in celebration of his 60th birthday: Münchener Philosophische Abhandlungen. Theodor Lipps zu seinem sechzigsten Geburtstag gewidmet von früheren Schülern, Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1911 (commonly referred to as simply Lipps-Festschrift).  Some of the essays from the Lipps-Festschrift were already available in the Reading Room, but now we have the complete collection.

Alexander PfänderVorwort, pp.iii-iv

Ernst von AsterNeukantianismus und Hegelianismus, pp.1-2

Alfred BrunswigDie Frage nach dem Grunde des sittlichen Sollens, pp. 26-50

Theodor ConradÜber Wahrnehmung und Vorstellung, pp.51-76

Max EttlingerZur Entwicklung der Raumanschauung bei Mensch und Tier, pp.77-99

Aloys FischerÄsthetik und Kunstwissenschaft, pp.100-124

Moritz GeigerDas Bewusstsein von Gefühlen, pp.125-162

Alexander PfänderMotive und Motivation, pp.163-195

Adolf ReinachZur Theorie des negativen Urteils, pp.196-254

Otto SelzExistenz als Gegenstandsbestimmtheit, pp.255-293

Else VoigtländerÜber die Bedeutung Freuds für die Psychologie, pp.294-316

Johannes Daubert had started to write an essay to be included in this volume, but was unable to finish it before the volume was published. For some insight into Daubert’s unfinished essay, see Karl Schuhmann and Barry Smith, “Against Idealism: Johannes Daubert vs. Husserl’s Ideas I and Karl Schuhmann, “Johannes Dauberts Kritik der ‘Theorie des negativen Urteils’ von Adolf Reinach,” in Speech Act and Sachverhalt (1987), pp.227-238.

Reading Room Update – Conrad, Hofmann, Leyendecker and more

We are very pleased to post the following new items to our Reading Room:

Maximilian Beck, “(Review) Philosophie der Lebensziele by Alexander Pfaender,” The Philosophical Review, 60:1 (1951), pp. 124-127.

Albert R. Chandler, “Professor Husserl’s Program of Philosophic Reform,” The Philosophical Review, 26:6 (1917), pp. 634-648.

Theodor Conrad, Über Wahrnehmung und Vorstellung (1911).

Victor Delbos, “Husserl: Sa critique du psychologisme et sa conception d’une Logique pure,” Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale, 19:5 (1911), pp. 685-698.

Heinrich Hofmann, Untersuchungen ueber den Empfindungsdebriff (1912).

Two pieces by Edmund Husserl: Meditations Cartesiennes (1950 French edition), and “Diskussion zum Vortrag von [Heinrich] Maier – Philosophie und Psychologie, Bericht über den VI Kongress fur experimentelle Psychologie, pp. 144-146 (1914)

Herbert Leyendecker, Zur phaenomenologie der Täuschungen (1913).  Our copy happens to be from the personal library of Winthrop Bell!

Leonard Nelson, Ueber das sogennante Erkenntnisproblem (1908)

Two pieces by Hendrik Pos: Le Langage et le Vecu and Phenomenologie et Linguistique.

As always, we hope that these items prove useful to your research.

NASEP 2013 Conference Schedule

NASEP 2013 – Describing and Exploring Early Phenomenology

June 12th-14th, King’s University College, The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada

All talks will be held in the Desmond Dutrizac Boardroom, Dante Lenardon Hall 112.

 

June 12

8:30am – 9:00:  Registration/Coffee (Labatt Hall)

9:00 –  9:15: Greetings and welcome from Dr. David Sylvester, Principal of King’s University College (Labatt Hall 105B)

Session 1, Chaired by Rodney Parker

9:20 – 9:30: Opening Remarks

9:30-10:15: Michael Andrews (University of Portland) – “The Embodied Self:  An Ethics of Community”

10:20 – 12:10 – Edith Stein Circle keynote address: Angela Ales Bello (Lateran University Rome): “From the Neutral Human Being to Gender Difference: Phenomenological and Dual Anthropology in Edith Stein” (Labatt Hall 101)

12:15 – 1:15 Lunch (Wemple Hall)

Session 2, Chair TBA

1:20 – 2:05: David Koepsell (Delft University of Technology) – “Validity as Justice in Reinach’s Apriori Foundations of the Civil Law

2:05 – 2:50: Andrew Pfeuffer (Franciscan University of Steubenville) – “Imperative We: Harmonizing Scheler and Kant”

2:50 – 3:35: Maria Gyemant (University of Liège) – “Emotions and Cognitions. The Evolution of the Theory of Emotions in the early Husserl”

3:35 – 3:45 Coffee

Session 3, Chaired by Jeff Mitscherling

3:50 – 4:45: Genki Uemura (Rissho University) – “Ingarden’s Theory of Perception”

4:45 – 5:30: Christian Dupont – “Jean Hering and the Introduction of Husserl’s Phenomenology to France”

 

June 13

9:00am – 9:25 Coffee

Session 1, Chaired by Christian Dupont

9:30 – 10:15: Mark Roberts (Franciscan University of Steubenville) – “Toward an Ontology of States of Affairs”

10:15 – 11:00: Josef Seifert (IAP Spain) in absentia [read by Oliver Heydorn] – “The Receptive Transcendence of Knowledge: Towards a Contentfull Notion of “Early Phenomenology”

11:00 – 11:45: Peter Andras Varga (Husserl-Archives, University of Cologne) – “The roots of Husserl’s divergences in the School of Brentano”

11:50 – 12:55 Lunch (Wemple Hall)

Session 2, Chaired by Corey Dyck

1:00 – 1:45: Charlene Elsby (McMaster University) – “Brentano’s Aristotle and the Intentional Definition of Mental Phenomena”

1:45 – 2:30: Biagio Tassone (Catholic University of America) – “Leonard Nelson’s Challenge to Phenomenology, and a (Husserlian) Response”

2:30 – 3:15: Ben Sheredos (UC San Diego) – “From Act Psychology to Phenomenology”

3:15 – 3:25 Coffee

Session 3, Chaired by Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray

3:30 – 4:15: Tom Nemeth in absentia [read by Rodney Parker] – “Gustav Shpet’s Consciousness and its Owner

4:15 – 5:45: NASEP keynote address – Lester Embree (Florida Atlantic University) – “Speculations about Bridging the Göttingen-Freiburg Gap in Phenomenology”

5:45: Principal’s Reception (Labatt Hall)

8:00 Dinner at Blu Duby, 125 Dundas Street.

 

June 14

9:00am – 9:25 Coffee

Session 1, Chaired by Trevor Bieber

9:30 – 10:15: Vedran Grahovac (University of Guelph) – “Another reading of Derrida’s reading of Husserl: towards the question of ‘phenomenological language’”

10:15 – 11:00: Rogelio Rovira (Complutense University of Madrid) – “On the manifold meaning of value according to Dietrich von Hildebrand”

11:00 – 11:45: John O’Connor (Colorado State University, Pueblo) – “Crossing the Continental Divide: Husserlian Rapprochement”

11:50 – 12:55 Lunch

Session 2, Chair TBA

1:00 – 1:45: TBA

1:45 – 2:30: Brian Donohue (SUNY Buffalo) – “Intention and Intentionality”

2:30 – 3:15: Aaron Massecar (King’s University College) – “Peirce and Husserl: Connections at the Turn of the Century”

3:15 – 3:25 Coffee

3:30 – 5:00: Annual General Meeting and Closing Address

NASEP 2013 conference poster

Hi all,

Here is the poster for our upcoming conference at King’s University College at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.  Help us spread the word about this event!

NASEP 2013 poster

Conference fees are $130 CDN for full time faculty (or $50/day) and $70 CDN for students and un-waged participants (or $30/day).  This is to cover the expenses associated with the conference, and will include breakfast, lunch, and coffee/refreshments throughout the day.

We would also like to remind everyone that this conference will be held concurrently with the annual meeting on the Edith Stein Circle (IASPES).

We hope to see you there!

In Memory of Dallas Willard

Dallas Willard 1935 - 2013

Dallas Willard 1935 – 2013

We are deeply saddened by the news that Dallas Willard died today, losing his battle with cancer at age 77.  Our sympathies go out to his family and friends.  It is truly a great loss for the phenomenological community and he will be missed.

Dr. Willard was fundamental to the revival and recognition of the Munich and Göttingen phenomenologists, as well as the early work of Husserl.  His translation of Adolf Reinach’s lecture ‘Über Phänomenologie’ (Concerning Phenomenology) introduced many scholars to the world of phenomenological realism and ontology, and the obscure but brilliant mind of Reinach.  That translation is still widely read today, and is an excellent testament to Willard’s skill as a translator; he captured the passion, the wit, as well as the incredible insights Reinach had in that 1913 presentation to the Marburg Neo-Kantians.  His translations of Husserl’s early work in the philosophy of math and logic, and his correspondence with Gottlob Frege, are extremely valuable and possess a degree of clarity that so few translations do.  Dr. Willard made Husserl’s ideas approachable.  And if you ever got the chance to hear Dr. Willard talk about Husserl at a conference, you were in for a real treat.  Simply brilliant, enlightening and entertaining.

I first ‘met’ Willard by email about 15 years ago or so, when i was an undergrad working on Reinach.  He was very kind and helpful, and a joy to speak to.  I finally got to meet him in person for the first time in Steubenville, in 2011, at the Early Phenomenology conference hosted by Franciscan University.  He didn’t have a lot of time to chat, a few minutes before running off to the airport, but he was just as friendly and warm as his emails, and he remembered our email correspondence and my work on Reinach. I have to say it meant a lot and the impression left by this brief conversation still sticks with me today.

I was asked to edit the conference proceedings volume for Quaestiones Disputatae, and I made sure that Dr. Willard’s paper was included – it would have been unthinkable to not have it as he was one of the keynote speakers and the paper was just incredible.  It required very little editing on my end, but we did have a chance to speak by email a few times about its content and his ideas on Husserl’s realism and idealism.

In light of his death and my absolute need to pay some kind of tribute to him – for myself personally and for NASEP,  I have requested permission from Quaestiones Disputatae editor Dr. Paul Symington, to create a PDF version of the article and post it here for everyone to read (see below)  Enjoy and remember Dallas Willard.

Willard – “Realism Sustained? Interpreting Husserl’s Progression into Idealism”

— Kimberly

Reading Room Update – Conrad, Schwenninger, and a few odds and ends

Now that the end of the Winter Semester is near, it’s time to make the shift from teaching to research.  We have added a few new items to the Reading Room to help with this transition.

First we have the front matter to the 1909 Russian translation of Husserl’s Logical Investigations, which includes an introduction by Semyon L. Frank.  You will also notice from the table of contents that only the ‘Prolegomena’ was published in this volume.

Next we have Bernard Bosanquet’s review of the first volume of the Jahrbuch für Philosophie und Phänomenologische Forschung, published in Mind in 1914.

After that, you might want to check out Boris Jakovenko’s essay “Kritische Bemerkungen ueber die Phaenomenologie,” from Der Russische Gedanke (1930).

You will also find a copy of Paul Ferdinand Linke’s essay, “Die Minderwertigkeit der Erfahrung der Theorie der Erkenntnis,” Kant-studien 23 (1919).

Alfred Schwenninger’s dissertation, Der Sympathiebegriff bei David Hume: Eine Darstellung und Kritik (1908)

We have also posted a copy of Alfred von Sybel’s review of Brentano’s Wahrheit und Evidenz from Theologische Literaturzeitung, 1931.

And finally, you will find a pdf of Theodor Conrad’s dissertation Definition und Forschungsgehalt der Aesthetik (1909).  We apologize that some of these images are rather poor quality.  If someone has a better pdf of this book, please send it to us.

We hope that you can put these items to good use, so please head to the Reading Room and take a look at them!