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.

In Memory of Dallas Willard

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!

Reading Room Update – Walther, Fink, and Conrad-Martius

I am very pleased to announce that in our Reading Room you can now access the following three works:

Gerda Walther‘s Ein Beitrag zur Ontologie der Sozialen Gemeinschaften (1922)

Eugen Fink‘s famous Kant-Studien essay (including a foreword by Husserl), Die phänomenologische Philosophie Edmund Husserls in der gegenwärtigen Kritik (1933)
(Note: There is an English translation of Fink’s Kant-Studien essay in, The Phenomenology of Husserl: Selected Critical Readings, ed. R.O.Elveton (1970), and that already in our Reading Room you can find Friedrich Kreis‘ Phänomenologie und Kritizismus, which Fink is responding to in his essay.)

Hedwig Conrad-Martius‘ Realontologie (1923)

Enjoy!

Reading Room Update – Critical works by Kynast, Kreis, and Misch

Now in the Reading Room you can access some works that were critical of early phenomenology.

Rienhard Kynast was a student Richard Hönigswald, who was in turn a student of Alois Riehl and Alexius Meinong. We have provided a copy of Kynast’s book Das Problem der Phänomenologie (1917).

The next two books might be a little more familiar. One is Friedrich Kreis‘ Phänomenologie und Kritizismus (1930). Some will recognize this as one of the two works directly referenced in Eugen Fink‘s “Die phänomenologische Philosophie Edmund Husserls in der gegenwärtigen Kritik,” Kant-Studien (1933).

The other is Georg Misch‘s Lebensphilosophie und Phänomenologie (1931). Misch, the student and son-in-law of Wilhelm Dilthey, criticizes both Husserl and Heidegger in this book from the standpoint of the Lebensphilosophie.
A translation of the correspondence between Misch and Husserl can be found in Bob Sandmeyer’s book Husserl’s Constitutive Phenomenology: Its Problem and Promise (2008).

Reading Room Update – Karl Neuhaus and Erica Sehl

I am very pleased to announce the addition of two rather obscure pieces to our Reading Room files.

The first is the Karl Neuhaus‘ dissertation, Humes Lehre von den Prinzipien der Ethik. This was the first dissertation to be completed under Husserl‘s supervision, and is thus an important piece of history.

The second is Erica Sehl‘s Kritische studien zur Lockes Erkenntnistheorie. We hope that this is one of many pieces by Husserl’s female students that we will be able to share.
Below is some info on Sehl from Juris Rozenvalds’ essay, “Phenomenological Ideas in Latvia” (2000).

Reading Room Update – Mahnke and Peters dissertations

In our Reading Room you will now find copies of the dissertations of both Dietrich Mahnke and Kurt Peters.

Mahnke began his academic career in Göttingen from 1902-06. Due to financial reasons he left Göttingen without completing his dissertation. Mahnke later returned to study with Husserl, and earned his doctorate from Freiburg in 1922. His dissertation, Leibnizens Synthese von Universalmathematik und Individualmetaphysik, was published in the Jahrbuch in 1925.

Peters came from Munich to study with Husserl from SS1904 – WS1907/08. His dissertation, Thomas Reid als Kritiker von David Hume in den Hauptpunkten des erkenntnis-theoretisch-logischen Teils ihrer Lehren, was completed in Leipzig under Max Heinze and published in 1909.

From the Schuhmann Files – Exzerpt aus Daubertania A I 3

Now in our Reading Room, you will find a copy of Karl Schuhmann‘s transcription of a number of pages from Daubertania A I 3 – Mappe zur Phänomenologie der Evidenz. This signature contains the notes for an essay Zur Phänomenologie der Evidenz which was to appear in the Festschrift for Alexander Pfänder‘s 60th birthday, along with a number of other excerpts (on each of Edmund Husserl, Aron Gurwitsch, Roman Ingarden, Theodor Celms, Aurel Kolnai, and Philipp Schwarz).

Included here are selections by Daubert on Husserl. The ordering of the passages here does not match the order of the pages found in A I 3.

For more on this, see Karl Schuhmann and Barry Smith’s article, Against Idealism: Johannes Daubert vs. Husserl’s Ideas I.

Reading Room Update – 3 pieces by Jean Hering

If you make your way over to our Reading Room section, you will find that 3 pieces by Jean Hering have been added:

Phenomenologie et Philosophie religieuse (1925)
His review of Emmanuel Levinas‘ Le Theorie de l’Intuition
His review of Gaston Berger‘s Le cogito dans la philosophie de Husserl, and a collection of essays entitled Philosophical Essays in Memory of Edmund Husserl (ed. Marvin Farber). Both of these reviews are in the file titled Litterature phenomenologique recente

As always, we hope you find these resources useful for your research.

CFP – Describing and Exploring Early Phenomenology, NASEP 2013

The North American Society for Early Phenomenology announces their 2nd Annual Conference, Describing and Exploring Early Phenomenology, to be held at King’s University College, Western University, 12-14 June, 2013.

Keynote Speaker: Lester Embree

NASEP invites all scholars to submit abstracts on any aspect of early phenomenology. This includes all philosophical investigations into the members of the Munich and Göttingen circles, their place within the early period of phenomenology (roughly 1900-1939), their relationship to other philosophers, and their contributions to the development of early phenomenology. The aim of this conference is to investigate the works of early phenomenologists across a broad range of topics, including ethics, mathematics, logic, aesthetics, politics, epistemology, ontology, psychology, etc. Figures covered include, but are not limited to: Edmund Husserl, Max Scheler, Moritz Geiger, Alexander Pfänder, Adolf Reinach, Carl Stumpf, Theodor Conrad, Johannes Daubert, Dietrich Mahnke, Hans Lipps, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Wilhelm Schapp, Edith Stein, Alexandre Koyré, Jean Hering, Winthrop Bell, Maximilian Beck, Roman Ingarden, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Fritz Kaufmann, Theodor Celms, Aron Gurwitsch, Gustav Shpet, Gerda Walther, Wolfgang Köhler, Dorion Cairns, and Eugen Fink. We also welcome papers on the relationship between early phenomenology and the School of Brentano, Hermann Lotze, Theodor Lipps, the American Pragmatists, and the Neo-Kantians.

Senior researchers and graduate students both are welcome to submit proposals. Graduate students should indicate their status in the email with their submission. Abstracts should be prepared for blind review, and should not exceed 300 words.

Deadline for submissions: March 1st, 2013.

Please send submissions and inquiries to:
Dr. Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray
phenomenology@me.com

Downloadable/printable PDF poster for distributing, click here: NASEP2013CFP