1st Edition

Phenomenology Between Philosophy of Mathematics and the History of Philosophy Essays in Honor of Burt C. Hopkins

360 Pages
by Routledge

Burt Hopkins’ decades-long work exemplifies the richness of the phenomenological movement of thought at best. Phenomenology Between Philosophy of Mathematics and the History of Philosophy features original essays that reflect on the scope and influence of his philosophy. Hopkins’ contributions shape a unique path at the intersection of the philosophy of mathematics, the interpretation of... Read more

Editor's Introduction Gabriele Baratelli, Daniele De Santis, Fotini Vassiliou

Part 1. Phenomenology

1. Form: An Operative Concept in Pheneomenology Steven Crowell

2. Dasein is Nothing Human. A Note on Finiteness and its Neglect Ivo De Gennaro

3. Intentionality Revisited: Husserl and Heidegger John J. Drummond

4. Transcendental Awareness and Civitalizations Algis Mickunas

5. The 'Sphere of Ownness' (die Eigensphäre, die Eigenheitssphäre), ‘Mineness’ (Jemeinigkeit, Jeweiligkeit), and the ‘Own-Sensual’ (das Eigensensuelle) of Self-Experience in Husserl’s Phenomenology Dermot Moran 

6. Life in Movement: Ludwig Landgrabe's Path into Phenomenology Ignacio Quepons

Part 2. Phenomenology and History of Philosophy

7. Encountering Modernity: Husserl and Hopkins—Klein—Strauss and Heidegger Joshua Kates  

8The Significance of Heidegger’s Emphasis on the Schematism in his Reading of Kant Thomas Nenon 

9. Falsehood in Plato’s Republic Noburu Notomi 

10Plato’s Egypt: Secret Knowledge from a Far Country Nickolas Pappas 

11. Socratic Sailing John Salllis 

Part 3. Phenomenology and Mathematics

12. Jacob Klein and the Enigma Karamazov: Writing, Ethics, Mathematics Gabriele Baratelli 

13. Cartesian Symbolic Abstraction and its Scholastic Antecedents Joseph Cosgrove 

14. Can Philosophers Prove the Reality of Ideal Objects? Claire Ortiz Hill

15. Husserl ab omni naevo vindicandus Ladislav Kvasz 

16. Husserl’s Phenomenology and the Platonic Notion of Ideal Numbers Michael Roubach 

17. “Was Jacob Klein Really Lazy?” Burt C. Hopkins 

18. Select Bibliography Burt C. Hopkins 

Biography

Gabriele Baratelli is a Research Fellow at the University of Graz, Austria. His main research interests lie at the intersection between phenomenology and the philosophy of mathematics.

Daniele De Santis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Charles University, Czech Republic. He has published extensively on German and French phenomenology and the history of philosophy. He is the editor in chief of The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy (Routledge) and the author of Transcendental Idealism and Metaphysics: Husserl’s Critique of Heidegger, 2 Volumes (2023).

Fotini Vassiliou is Assistant Professor of Phenomenology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Her primary interests lie in 19th- and 20th-century Continental Philosophy, especially in the phenomenological and existential traditions.

“Featuring contributions from the world’s leading phenomenologists, this collection of essays explores the essence of phenomenology and its engagements with mathematics and the history of philosophy.”

Ondřej Švec, Charles University, Czech Republic