The phenomenology of representational awareness

The Eleventh Annual Aron Gurwitsch Memorial Lecture, presented under the sponsorship of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology in conjunction with the meetings of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy and the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences at Villanova University on 12 October 1990.     

In memory of Herbert Spiegelberg and the phenomenological workshops

Presented at the joint meetings of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy and the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Memphis, October, 1991.     

Some recollections of Herbert Spiegelberg

This paper is edited from remarks made at the meetings of The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy and of The Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Memphis State University, 19 October 1991.     

Europe, truth, and history: Husserl and Voegelin on philosophy and the identity of Europe

This paper was delivered to the British Society for Phenomenology. Conference, in Oxford, in March 1992.     

Intersubjectivity without subjectivism

Paper read at meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy on 13 October 1990.     

The relevance of Husserl today

Lecture given at the Annual meeting of the British Society for Phenomenology held at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, on 25 March 1988. The occasion was remembering Husserls passing away fifty years ago.     

Making sense: The work of Eugene Gendlin

This and the following papers were presented at a symposium organized by David M. Levin honoring the work of Eugene Gendlin at meetings of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Boston, October, 1992.     

Philosophy and politics: On Fred Dallmayr's “Critical Encounters”

This is the slightly revised text of a paper given at the annual meetings of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences held at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 14 October 1989.     

Husserls idee der Philosophie

Ohne ZusammenfassungDeutsche Fassung eines am 27. März 1988 auf der Jahresversammlung der British Society for Phenomenology in Oxford zum Gedächtnis von Husserls 50. Todestag gehaltenen Vortrags. Ich danke Barry Smith für seine hilfreiche Kritik des Manuskripts.     

A Schutzian Perspective on the Phenomenology of Law in the Context of Positivistic Practices

The paper outlines Schutz’s phenomenology of law in the context of the transformation of positivistic practices in a post-totalitarian society. His major contribution is seen in the disentanglement of social phenomena from any form of naturalness by incorporating the dimension of meaning and interpretation into them. This philosophical gesture is made possible by renouncing any theory of transcendent ground(s) of a pre-formed order (Section 1) and leads to an interpretive concept of law, in which the reciprocity of perspectives play the major role. The conclusions are pointing toward a phenomenological concept of law able to take our freedom seriously. Presented as the Alfred Schutz Memorial Lecture at the meetings of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS), Chicago, 2007, and co-sponsored by the American Philosophical Association (APA) and the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology (CARP). I am grateful to Lester Embree and Nicoleta Szabo for their comments on an earlier draft of this essay.     

Intersubjectivity as a practical matter and a problematic achievement

I want to thank Professor George Psathas, Editor ofHuman Studies, for the opportunity to put together this special issue; the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences for providing the stimulating intellectual setting that called forth these papers; and the contributors, who responded so graciously to my suggestions, requests, and pressures. I also want to thank Erica Cavin and Greg Smith, who provided helpful references, and Christina Papadimitriou and Norman Waksler, who offered suggestions on an earlier draft.     

The phenomenon of vulnerability in clinical encounters

After a brief, personal reflection on Aron Gurwitsch’s life and his many influences on my career, I devote this lecture to some of the central themes of a phenomenology of medicine. Its core is the clinical encounter, which displays a certain structure I term the asymmetry of power (physician) and vulnerability (patient, family)—a complex contextual imbalance characterized by multiple points of view, hence points for reflective entrance. These are then interpreted phenomenologically in terms of epoché and reduction (practical distantiation), evidence, reflection, and other related themes. I conclude with a suggestion about “the fundamental method” of phenomenology, free fantasy variation. This paper was delivered as The Aron Gurwitsch Memorial Lecture, October 21, 2005, co-sponsored by The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology and the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Salt Lake City, Utah. It is based on a number of articles, chapters and books I have written over the past several decades (see especially 2000, pp. 123–140; 1995b, pp. 147–168).     

Temporal experience as a core quality in mental disorders

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences - The goal of this paper is to introduce Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences’ thematic issue on disordered temporalities. The authors begin by...     

Response to Alcoff,Ferguson, and Bergoffen

This paper responds to comments, queries, and criticisms offered by Alcoff, Bergoffen, and Ferguson at a scholar's session on my work held at the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy in October 2001. Responding to Alcoff, I highlight my understanding of liberation in the context of a Nietzschean and a Latin American feminism and the politics of conceptualizing “resistance” in postcolonial theory. Responding to Ferguson, I address, among other issues, the often misunderstood distinction between postcolonialism and postmodernism, as well as related implications regarding some postcolonial feminists' qualified appeals to universals and women's rights. Responding to Bergoffen, I advocate on behalf of cultural formations supportive of the feminist affirmation of life and of radical subjectivities that challenge gender orthodoxies.     

Neural representationalism,the Hard Problem of Content and vitiated verdicts. A reply to Hutto & Myin (2013)

Colombo’s (Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2013) plea for neural representationalism is the focus of a recent contribution to Phenomenology and Cognitive Science by Daniel D. Hutto and Erik Myin. In that paper, Hutto and Myin have tried to show that my arguments fail badly. Here, I want to respond to their critique clarifying the type of neural representationalism put forward in my (Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2013) piece, and to take the opportunity to make a few remarks of general interest concerning what Hutto and Myin have dubbed “the Hard Problem of Content.”     

Book review of Sophie Loidolt,Phenomenology of Plurality: Hannah Arendt on Political Intersubjectivity

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Review of Ecology of the Brain: The Phenomenology and Biology of the Embodied Mind,Thomas Fuchs

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Sheets-Johnstone,M. The Primacy of Movement

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Correction to: Methods of data collection in psychopathology: the role of semi-structured,phenomenological interviews

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Review of Jonardon Ganeri,Attention, Not Self

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