Advancing Phenomenology: Essays in Honor of Lester Embree (Contributions to Phenomenology, 62)

Philip Blosser and Thomas Nenon The essays in the volume were assembled in honor of Lester Embree, who celebrated his 70th birthday on January 9, 2008. A preview of this volume was presented to Professor Embree at a reception sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology that was held in his honor at the 2008 meeting of the Husserl Circle at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The title Advancing Phenomenology is purposely ambiguous. On the one hand, these essays document the progress that phenomenology as an ongoing and vibrant movement has made in the period of over a century since its inception. They ill- trate the advance of phenomenology both in terms of the range of topics represented in this volume and in terms of the disciplinary and geographical diversity of the scholars who have contributed to it. The topics range from scholarly appropriations of past achievements in phenomenology, to concrete phenomenological investi- tions into ethics, gender, and environmental philosophy, as well as phenomenolo- cal reflections on the foundations of disciplines outside philosophy such as psychology, history, the social sciences, and archeology. The contributors come both from philosophy departments and from a number disciplines outside of philosophy such as sociology, psychology, and archeology; and they come from all around the world – from North America, from Western and Eastern Europe, from Latin America, and from several different countries in Asia. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Front Matter....Pages 5-5 Introduction....Pages 1-4 Naturalism, Historism, and Phenomenology....Pages 7-32 Front Matter....Pages 33-33 How Is Phenomenology Motivated?....Pages 35-44 Working Notions: A Meditation on Husserlian Phenomenological Practice....Pages 45-70 Percept, Concept, and the Stratification of Ideality....Pages 71-85 Focusing and Phenomenology....Pages 87-102 Quo Vadis, Phenomenology?....Pages 103-117 Toward a Husserlian Conception of Epistemology....Pages 119-128 Perception as a Source of Justification of Belief....Pages 129-137 The Worldhood of the World and the Worldly Character of Objects in Husserl....Pages 139-155 Thinking of Difference and Otherness from a Husserlian Perspective....Pages 157-172 Front Matter....Pages 173-173 Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on Embodied Experience....Pages 175-195 Making the Case for Gestalt Organization: Edmund Husserl and Aron Gurwitsch on the Problem of Independent Parts....Pages 197-222 Phenomenology of Surprise....Pages 223-233 The Crisis of Modern Society and Critical Rationality....Pages 235-250 Can a Schelerian Ethic Be Grounded in the Heart without Losing Its Head?....Pages 251-268 Front Matter....Pages 269-269 A Phenomenological Reflection Conducted Through Narrative: An Essay in Honor of Lester Embree....Pages 271-301 The Participating Professional....Pages 303-314 Phenomenological Overcoming of Western Prejudices against Nonhuman Animals....Pages 315-341 Ecophenomenology and the Resistance of Nature....Pages 343-355 Front Matter....Pages 269-269 Reflections on the Ecological Crisis and the Meaning of Nature....Pages 357-369 Modern Technology and the Flight from Architecture....Pages 371-392 Reflections on Metaarchaeology....Pages 393-401 Objective Meaning and Subjective Meaning: A Clarification of Schutz’s Point of View....Pages 403-411 Methodology of the Social Sciences Is Where the Social Scientists, Philosophers and the Persons on the Street Should Meet....Pages 413-430 Front Matter....Pages 431-431 Phenomenological Wissenschaftslehre and John McDowell’s Quietism....Pages 433-454 Front Matter....Pages 455-455 Advancing Phenomenology as a Practical Endeavor....Pages 457-463 A Letter of Dorion Cairns....Pages 465-470 Curriculum Vitae....Pages 471-509 Back Matter....Pages 511-518 The title "Advancing Phenomenology" is purposely ambiguous. On the one hand, these essays document the progress that phenomenology as an ongoing and vibrant movement has made in the period of about a century since its inception. They illustrate the advance of phenomenology both in terms of the range of topics represented in this volume and in terms of the disciplinary and geographical diversity of the scholars who have contributed to it. The topics range from scholarly appropriations of past achievements in phenomenology, to concrete phenomenological investigations into ethics and en