CURRICULUM VITAE - Sebastian Luft
Department of Philosophy
Marquette University
Coughlin Hall, Suite 141
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
Tel.: (414) 288-5960; Fax: 288-3010
Email: Sebastian.Luft@marquette.edu
URL: http://academic.mu.edu/phil/lufts/
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Associate Professor, Marquette University 2008-
Visiting Professor, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Department of Philosophy, Summer Semester 2008
Visiting Professor, Karl-Franzens Universität Graz (Austria), Department of Philosophy, Summer Semester 2007
Assistant Professor, Marquette University, Department of Philosophy, 2004-2008
Visiting Professor, Emory University, Department of Philosophy, 2002-2004
Editorial Assistant & Lecturer, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), Husserl Archives, Higher Institute of Philosophy, 1998-2002
Research Fellow & Lecturer, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Philosophy, 1996-1997
Research Fellow, Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Germany), Department of Philosophy, 1994-1998
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
19th & 20th Century European Philosophy, esp. Kant, German Idealism, Neo-Kantianism, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Culture
AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Ancient Philosophy; Early Modern Philosophy; Aesthetics; Ethics
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1998, University of Wuppertal, Germany. Philosophy.
PhD Thesis: “Natural World and Phenomenology: Phenomenological Systematics and Methodology in the Dispute between Husserl and Fink.” Advisor: Klaus Held.
M.A. 1994, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Majors: Philosophy and German Philology (Germanistik).
M.A. Thesis: “Truth—Meaning—Grammar. On the Concept of a Pure Logic in Husserl’s Logical Investigations.” Advisor: Reiner Wiehl.
B.A. 1991, University of Heidelberg (“Zwischenprüfung”).
-- 1989-90, University of Freiburg, Germany. Major: Philosophy, Minors: German and Classics.
PERSONAL DATA
German citizen; permanent U.S. resident.
LANGUAGES
English, German (native), French, Spanish, Dutch (fluent); Classical Greek and Latin.
GRANTS, AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2008 Marquette University
Way Klingler Sabbatical Fellowship for a sabbatical for the academic year 2009-10.
2008 Graduate School, Marquette University
Faculty Development Award for funding a trip to a conference in Germany, $ 700.
2008 Graduate School, Marquette University
Faculty Development Award for funding a trip to a conference in Russia, $ 700 (declined).
2007 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Grant to continue the Teaching Seminar for Graduate Students from the Philosophy and Theology Departments, $ 8900.
2007 Graduate School, Marquette University
Research Development Award to develop a federal grant and establish a circle of collaborators both within and outside of Marquette University, $ 2300.
2006 Graduate School, Marquette University
Faculty Development Award for funding a translation of a paper into Spanish, $ 300.
2006 Graduate School, Marquette University
Summer Faculty Fellowship (SFF), $ 5000.
2006 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Grant to develop a Teaching Seminar for Graduate Students becoming Teaching Assistants within the Philosophy Department, $ 6600.
2006, 2007, 2008 Graduate School, Marquette University
Distinguished Scholar Recognition.
2005 Graduate School, Marquette University
Summer Faculty Fellowship (SFF) and Regular Research Grant (RRG) to carry out research at the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University (consultation of Ernst Cassirer’s unpublished papers), $ 7860.
2003 Institute for Comparative and International Studies (ICIS), Emory University
Travel Grant for the conference “XIV Encuentro Nacional de Fenomenología y Hermenéutica” in Buenos Aires, AR, $ 1200.
2002-2004 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Federal Republic of Germany
Post-doctoral Research Scholarship (Feodor-Lynen Fellowship)
1998-2002 Nationaal Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen (NFWO, Belgian-Flemish National Research Organization)
Research Grant for the Edition of a Volume in the Husserliana Series
1995-1998 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)
Doctoral Stipend in the “Graduiertenkolleg Phänomenologie und Hermeneutik” of the Universities of Bochum and Wuppertal (led by Prof. K. Held and Prof. B. Waldenfels)
1996-1997 State University of New York at Stony Brook
Research Fellowship
EDITORIAL WORK AND REFEREEING
Book Review Editor of Husserl Studies (ISSN 0167-9848, Springer Academic Publishers), Vol. 16, 1999 – present.
Founding Member and Co-Publisher of Journal Phänomenologie (ISSN 1027-5657) in cooperation between the Graduate College Bochum/Wuppertal and the “Gruppe Phänomenologie,” Vienna (Austria); published independently as of Vol. 11/1999.
Member of Scientific Committee: Dilthey. International Yearbook for Philosophy and the Human Sciences (publisher: Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart).
Member of Editorial Board: “Neukantianismus-Forschung Aktuell,” a forum for the dissemination of international research on Neo-Kantianism.
Referee Activities:
Articles: Husserl Studies; Journal of the History of Philosophy; Metaphilosophy; Continental Philosophy Review; Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences; Journal of the History of Ideas; Iyyun (The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly).
Book manuscripts: Phaenomenologica (Kluwer/Springer Publishers), Oxford University Press, Routledge (Taylor & Francis), Fordham University Press, Cambridge University Press, Penn State University Press, Marquette University Press, MIT Press.
Grant proposals: Irish Research Council for the Humanities & Social Sciences.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
External:
American Philosophical Association: Member of the 2010 Central Division Program Committee.
Midwest Association of Graduate Schools: Reviewer of Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award Competition, Spring 2007.
North American Kant Society (Midwest Study Group): Member of Selection Committee Conference, Co-organizer of Conference at Marquette University in Milwaukee, November 2006.
American Society for Aesthetics: Co-organizer of the annual meeting, Milwaukee, October 2006.
International Husserl Circle: Co-organizer of annual meeting, Milwaukee, June 2008.
Marquette University:
Reading Program for Freshmen.
Preview and Pre-Major Advising.
Liaison for DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).
Marquette University, Philosophy Department:
Representative of Philosophy Department at the Annual Open House, 2008.
Representative of Philosophy Department at the Philosophy Majors Fair, 2006, 2007.
Representative of Philosophy Department at Annual Majors Fair, 2005, 2006, 2007.
Member of the Committee on Women and Minorities, 2008-.
Member of Professional Development and Publication Committee, 2005-.
Graduate Student Advising, Undergraduate Student Advising (Majors & non-Majors).
German Reading Group for Graduate Students, 2006-.
Colloquium Series Coordinator, 2006-08.
Member of PhD Comprehensive Exam Committee (Parts 2 [Modern & 19th & 20th Century Philosophy], 3 [Philosophy of Logic, Language and Science] and 4 [Systematic Problems: Ethics, Political Philosophy, and Aesthetics]), 2006-.
Emory University, Philosophy Department:
Foreign Language Committee: German Language Courses for Graduate Students.
Catholic University of Louvain, Higher Institute of Philosophy, Husserl Archives:
Assistant Representative in the Boards of Directors and Trustees of the Husserl Archives; Administrative duties; evaluating Husserliana editions; refereeing manuscripts under review for Phaenomenologica; assisting Husserl translations into English; translating manuscripts, archival correspondence; hosting guests, etc.
Dissertation Advisor:
Colin J. Hahn (expected 2010).
Margaret Steele (expected 2010).
Member of Doctoral Committees:
Peter Chukwu, advisor Prof. Pol Vandevelde (graduated in 2007).
Cyril Crume, advisor Prof. Robert Masson, Theology (expected 2008).
Sebastian Kaufmann, advisor Prof. Pol Vandevelde (expected 2009).
Arun Iyer, advisor Prof. Pol Vandevelde (expected 2010).
Cristina Bucur, advisor Prof. Pol Vandevelde (expected 2009).
David Leichter, advisor Prof. Pol Vandevelde (expected 2009).
Berndt Goossens, advisor Prof. Dr. Mag. Karl Schuhmann, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands (graduated in 2002).
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK AUTHORED
“Phänomenologie der Phänomenologie”. Systematik und Methodologie der Phänomenologie in der Auseinandersetzung zwischen Husserl und Fink [“Phenomenology of Phenomenology.“ Systematics and Methodology of Phenomenology in the Dispute between Husserl and Fink]. Dordrecht / Boston / London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002 (Phaenomenologica 166), XI + 318 pp.
Reviews: Marcus Brainard, International Journal of Philosophical Studies (in press); Karl Mertens, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, Dec. 2003, 65e Jaargang, Nr. 4, pp. 754-757; Thane M. Naberhaus, Review of Metaphysics Vol. 3 (2004), pp. 635-36; Robert Sokolowski, Husserl Studies 21/3 (2005), pp. 257-261; Tobias Trappe, Journal Phänomenologie 20 (2003), pp. 100-106.
BOOKS EDITED
Husserliana XXXIV, Edmund Husserl, Gesammelte Werke: Zur phänomenologischen Reduktion. Texte aus dem Nachlass (1926-1935). Dordrecht / Boston / London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, LI + 657 pp.
Reviews: Tobias Trappe, Husserl Studies (in press); Dermot Moran, International Journal of Philosophical Studies (in press).
French Translation: De la réduction phénoménologique. Textes posthumes (1926-1965). Trans. Jean-François Pestureau. Grenoble: Éditions Jérôme Millon, 2007.
Neo-Kantianism in Contemporary Philosophy, ed. by Rudolf A. Makkreel & Sebastian Luft. Bloomington / Indianapolis 2009 (forthcoming).
ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
"The Transcendental Dimension of Phenomenology," in: Dialogos 2008 (forthcoming).
“The Subjectivity of Effective History and the Husserlian Elements in Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics,” in: Idealistic Studies 37/3 (2008), pp. 219-254.
“Dilthey and the Neo-Kantians: The Dispute Over the Status of the Human and Cultural Sciences,” co-authored with Rudolf A. Makkreel, in: Routledge Companion to 19th Century Philosophy, ed. by Dean Moyar, Routledge, forthcoming.
“Das Subjekt als Moralische Person. Zu Husserls Späten Reflexionen Bezüglich des Personenbegriffs,” in: Proceedings of the Eighth Congress of the Austrian Society for Philosophy, forthcoming. Slovakian Translation, “Subjekt ako morálna osaba. K Husserlovym neskorym reflexiám pojmu osoby,” in: Filozofia (Bratislava) 2008/4, pp. 365-373.
“Neo-Kantianism in Germany and France,” co-authored with Fabien Capeillères, in: The History of Continental Philosophy in Eight Volumes (Alan Schrift, general ed.), Vol. 3, Keith Ansell Pearson (ed.): The New Century (1890-1930), Acumen Press, 2008, forthcoming.
“Zur Phänomenologischen Methode in Karl Jaspers’ ‘Allgemeiner Psychopathologie’,” in: S. Rinofner-Kreidl & H. A. Wiltsche, eds., Karl Jaspers ‘Allgemeine Psychopathologie’ Zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2008, pp. 31-51.
“Desde el Ser a Lo Dado Y Desde Lo Dad al Ser: Algunos Comentarios Sobre el Significado del Trascendentalismo Ideal en Kant y Husserl,” in: Investigaciónes Fenomenológicas 5 (http://www.uned.es/dpto_fim/invfen/invFen5/portadaInvFen_5.htm), pp. 49-83.
“From Being to Givenness and Back: Some Remarks on the Meaning of Transcendental Idealism in Kant and Husserl,” in: International Journal of Philosophical Studies 15/3 (2007), pp. 367-394.
“Germany’s Metaphysical War. Reflections on War By Two Representatives of German Philosophy: Max Scheler and Paul Natorp,” in: Clio, Internet Portal on History. Themenportal Erster Weltkrieg (www.erster-weltkrieg.clio-online.de).
“Natorp, Husserl und das Problem der Kontinuität von Leben, Wissenschaft und Philosophie,“ in: Phänomenologische Forschungen VI (2006), pp. 97-133.
“Husserl’s Concept of the ‘Transcendental Person’. Another Look at the Husserl-Heidegger Relationship,” in: International Journal of Philosophical Studies 13/2 (2005), pp. 141-177.
“The Condition of Possibility of Transcendental Philosophy,” Review Essay of: Steven G. Crowell: Husserl, Heidegger and the Space of Meaning, in: Husserl Studies 22/1 (2006), 53-75.
“A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Subjective and Objective Spirit: Natorp, Husserl and Cassirer,” in: The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Vol. IV (2004), pp. 209-249.
“Herbert Spiegelberg,” in: The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, Thoemmes Press, Bristol 2005, Vol. IV, pp. 2299-2302.
“Husserl’s Theory of the Phenomenological Reduction: Between Life-World and Cartesianism,” in: Research in Phenomenology 34 (2004), pp. 198-234.
“A New Look at Husserl’s Theory of the Phenomenological Reduction,” in: Anuario Filosófico (Madrid), No. 36/1, 2004, Intencionalidad y Juicio en Husserl y en Heidegger, pp. 65-104.
“’Idealismo Realista’: Una Respuesta Heterodoxa a la Pregunta del Idealismo Trascendental,” in: Escritos de Filosofía, Nº 43 (2003). Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Buenos Aires, pp. 75-98.
“Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Between Reason and Relativism. A Critical Appraisal,” in: Idealistic Studies 34/1 (2004), pp. 25-47.
“The Reduction to the Lived-Present: A Note on Husserl’s Late Reflections on Reduction and Time-Consciousness” (editor’s introduction and translation), in: The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Vol. V (2005), pp. 352-363.
“Husserl’s Notion of the Natural Attitude and the Shift to Transcendental Phenomenology,” in: Analecta Husserliana, Vol. LXXX, Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer, 2002, pp. 114-119.
“Einige Grundprobleme in Husserls unveröffentlichten späten Texten über phänomenologische Reduktion,“ in: D. Carr & C. Lotz (eds.): Subjektivität – Verantwortung – Wahrheit. Neue Aspekte der Phänomenologie Edmund Husserls. Frankfurt/M. (et al.): Lang, 2002, pp. 127-148.
“Die Archivierung des Husserlschen Nachlasses 1933-1935,“ in: Husserl Studies 20/1, 2004, pp. 1-23.
Entries “Aktivität,” “Doxa,” “fungierend,” “Leerhorizont,” “Modalisierung,” “primordial,” “Schauen,” “Symbol” (with H. Schalk), “Urdoxa,” “Urevidenz,” in: Wörterbuch der Phänomenologischen Begriffe, ed. by H. Vetter & K. Ebner, Hamburg: Meiner, 2005.
“Phänomenologische und mundane Reduktion,“ in: Die Sichtbarkeit des Unsichtbaren. Phänomenologische Forschungen, ed. by R. Bernet, Munich: Fink (forthcoming).
“Faktizität und Geschichtlichkeit als Konstituentien der Lebenswelt in Husserls Spätphilosophie,“ in: Phänomenologische Forschungen V (2005), pp. 13-40.
“Die Konkretion des Ich und das Problem der Ichspaltung in Husserls phänomenologi scher Reduktion,“ in: R. Kühn & M. Staudigl (eds.): Epoché und Reduktion. Formen und Praxis der Reduktion, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2003, pp. 31-50.
“Quelques Problèmes Fondamentaux Concernant les Réflexions Tardives de Husserl sur la Réduction Phénoménologique,” in: Recherches Husserliennes 20, 2004, pp. 3-26.
“Lebenswelten. Eine phänomenologisch-biographische Betrachtung,” in: Horizonte. Festschrift for Klaus Held’s 65th Birthday, Wuppertal 2001, pp. 61-72.
“Husserl, Horaz und die ‘Heilsmächte der Phänomenologie’“ (with M. Asper), in: Husserl Studies 16/1, 1999, pp. 25-40. Cf. also by the same authors: “Consolatio Philologiae: Horaz, c. III 3, 1-8 bei Edmund Husserl,” in: Philologus 144, 2000/2, pp. 361-374.
“’Dialectics of the Absolute’: The Systematics of the Phenomenological System in Husserl’s Last Period,” in: Philosophy Today 25, 1999, pp. 87-94.
“Husserl on the Artist and the Philosopher: Aesthetic and Phenomenological Attitude,” in: Glimpse 1, No. 1, 1999 (Society for Phenomenology and Media), pp. 46-53.
“Two Themes of Husserl’s Phenomenology Revisited: Responsibility and Inter subjectivity,” Review Essay, in: Continental Philosophy Review (formerly Man and World) 32, 1999, pp. 89-99.
Husserl II: Die Konstitution der Lebenswelt. Studienbrief, Hagen: University of Hagen Press, 1999 (87 pp.).
“Husserl’s Phenomenological Discovery of the Natural Attitude,” in: Continental Philosophy Review (formerly Man and World) 31, 1998, pp. 153-170.
“Europa am Kongo. Zu Husserls kulturphilosophischen Meditationen,” in: Journal Phänomenologie 10, 2/1998, pp. 15-22.
“Husserl, Landgrebe, Held und die Idee einer phänomenologischen Geschichts philoso phie,“ in: Hier ist die Rose, hier tanze. Festschrift for Klaus Held’s 60th Birthday, Wuppertal 1996, pp. 96-115.
MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS
On the Future of Husserlian Phenomenology. http://www.newschool.edu/gf/phil/husserl/Future/Part%20Two/PartTwoFrames/PartTwo.html
“A Philosopher’s Looks,” in: Perspectives on Art at the Haggerty Museum, by Marquette University Faculty and Staff. Hartland: Special Editions, 2006, pp. 12-13.
BOOK REVIEWS
Reinier Munk, ed., Hermann Cohen’s Critical Idealism. Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought, Vol. 10. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005, in: Journal of the History of Philosophy 45:4 (October 2007), pp. 270-72.
New Publications on Cassirer: Th. Leinkauf (ed.), Dilthey und Cassirer & G. Foss/E. Kasa (eds.), Forms of Knowledge and Sensibility. Cassirer and the Human Sciences, in: Journal of the History of Philosophy, no. 42/4 (October 2004), pp. 504-06.
Jean Grondin, Gadamer. A Biography, in: Journal Phänomenologie 20/2004, pp. 94-100.
Silvio Vietta, Gadamer im Gespräch, in: Journal Phänomenologie 20/2004, 118-120.
New Journals in Phenomenology: Annales de Phénoménologie, The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Phänomenologische Forschungen (with R. Breeur, C. Lotz and C. Painter), in: Husserl Studies 20/2 (2004), pp. 167-181.
Dominic Kaegi/Enno Rudolph (eds.), Cassirer – Heidegger. 70 Jahre Davoser Disputation, in: Journal Phänomenologie 19/2003, pp. 91-94.
Donn Welton, The Other Husserl. The Horizons of Transcendental Phenomenology, in: Journal Phänomenologie 18/2002., pp 72-74.
Eugen Fink und Jan Patocka, Briefe und Dokumente 1933-1977, in: Journal Phänomenologie 14/2000, 69-70.
Dermot Moran, Introduction to Phenomenology, in: Journal Phänomenologie 13/2000, pp. 78-79.
Jean-Luc Marion, Reduction and Givenness. Investigations of Husserl, Heidegger, and Phenomenology, in: Journal Phänomenologie 13/2000, pp. 73-75.
Rolf Kühn, Husserls Begriff der Passivität, in: Journal Phänomenologie 12/1999, pp. 50-51.
Gernot Böhme/Gregor Schiemann (ed.s), Phänomenologie der Natur, in: Journal Phänomenologie 12/1999.
Donn Welton (ed.), The Essential Husserl. Basic Writings in Transcendental Phenomenology, in: Journal Phänomenologie 12/1999, pp. 76-77.
Dan Zahavi (ed.), Self-Awareness, Temporality, Alterity. Central Topics in Phenomenology, in: Journal Phänomenologie 10/1998, pp. 65-66.
Ulrich Kaiser, Das Motiv der Hemmung in Husserls Phänomenologie, in: Journal Phänomenologie 9/1998.
James R. Mensch, After Modernity. Husserlian Reflections on a Philosophical Tradition, in: Journal Phänomenologie 9/1998.
Lester Embree et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, in: Journal Phänomenologie 8/1997, pp. 47-49.
Friederike Kuster, Wege der Verantwortung. Husserls Phänomenologie als Gang durch die Faktizität, in: Journal Phänomenologie 8/1997, pp. 57-58.
Dan Zahavi, Husserl und die transzendentale Intersubjektivität. Eine Antwort auf die sprachpragmatische Kritik, in: Journal Phänomenologie 8/1997, pp. 66-68.
Anthony J. Steinbock, Home and Beyond. Generative Phenomenology after Husserl, in: Journal Phänomenologie 7/1997, pp. 57-59.
Theodor Celms, Der phänomenologische Idealismus Husserls und andere Schriften 1928-1943, in: Journal Phänomenologie 7/1997, pp. 61-63.
Karl Mertens, Zwischen Letztbegründung und Skepsis, in: Husserl Stu dies (14/2) 1997, pp. 159-172.
Richard Grathoff (ed.), Alfred Schütz – Aron Gurwitsch – Briefwechsel 1939 – 1959. Mit einer Einleitung von L. Landgrebe, in: Journal Phänomenologie 6/1996, pp. 54-55.
TRANSLATIONS
Into English:
Helmut Holzhey: “Neo-Kantianism and Phenomenology: The Problem of Intuition,” in: S. Luft/R. Makkreel, eds., Neo-Kantianism in Contemporary Philosophy, forthcoming, 2009.
Reiner Wiehl: “The Art and History of Concepts in Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics” (lecture, delivered at the World Philosophy Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2003).
Reiner Wiehl: “Emotionality and Subjectivity” (lecture, delivered at the Meeting of the Institut International de Philosophie, Madrid, Spain, August 2002).
Rudolf Bernet: “Different Concepts of Logic and Their Relation to Subjectivity” (with C. S. Albott), in: D. Zahavi & F. Stjernfeld (eds.): One Hundred Years of Phenomenology, Dordrecht / Boston / London: Kluwer, 2002 (Phaenomenologica 164), pp. 19-29.
Elmar Holenstein: “The Zero-Point of Orientation: The Placement of the I in Perceived Space” (with L. Rodemeyer), in: D. Welton (ed.): The Body. Classic and Contemporary Readings (Blackwell Readings in Continental Philosophy), Oxford: Blackwell, 1999, pp. 57-94.
Into German:
Rudolf A. Makkreel: “Dilthey, Heidegger und der Vollzugssinn der Geschichte” (with A. Denker), in: Heidegger-Jahrbuch, vol. 1, Heidegger und die Anfänge seines Denkens, ed. by A. Denker, H.-H. Gander & H. Zaborowski, Freiburg/Munich: Alber, 2004, pp. 307-21.
TALKS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
Presentations in English
The Transcendental Dimension of Phenomenology. University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, August 13, 2008 (invited).
How Can Phenomenology Do Ethics? Seminar on Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, Marquette University, May 14, 2008 (invited) and University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, August 15, 2008 (invited).
German Philosophy Between World Wars I and II. Invited guest lecture, Seminar “German Life and Civilization,” Prof. Barbara Merten-Brugger, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, February 11, 2008 (invited).
The Subject as Moral Person: On Husserl’s Late Reflections Concerning the Concept of Personhood. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (panel, together with Colin Hahn and Michael Ystad), Chicago, November 9, 2007.
From Being to Givenness and Back: Some Remarks on the Meaning of Transcendental Idealism in Kant and Husserl. Annual Meeting of the International Husserl Circle, Prague (Czech Republic), April 28, 2007, and the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Baltimore, December 28, 2007.
Construction and Constitution, or: What is the Content of Experience? Husserl versus the Neo-Kantians. 45th Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (panel, together with Pol Vandevelde & Michael Shim), Philadelphia, October 14, 2006.
Schiller on the Aesthetical Education of Mankind. Goethe House of Wisconsin, Christmas Address, Milwaukee, December 1, 2005 (invited).
Reassessing Neo-Kantianism: Another Look at Hermann Cohen’s Kant Interpretation, Meeting of the Northern American Kant Society, Midwestern Study Group, Chicago, November 12, 2005.
The Tradition as Stronghold Against Excesses? Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics in the Light of the German Experience During the Time of Nazism, Meeting of the German Studies Association (panel, together with Holger Afflerbach & Pol Vandevelde), Milwaukee, October 1, 2005.
Heidegger on “What is Enlightenment?,” guest lecture, Seminar “What is Enlightenment? Readings in Intellectual German History Since Kant,” Prof. Gerhard Richter, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Tuesday, April 12, 2005 (invited).
Husserl’s ‘Hermeneutical Phenomenology’, 43rd Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Memphis, TN, October 29, 2004, the Seminar for Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, Marquette University, May 18, 2005 (invited), and the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Meeting, New York, December 28, 2005.
Germany’s Metaphysical War: Reflections on War by Two Representatives of German Philosophy: Max Scheler and Paul Natorp. Conference “An Improbable War? The Outbreak of World War I Reconsidered,” Emory University, October 16, 2004 (invited).
“Real-Idealism.” An Unorthodox Husserlian Response to the Question of Transcendental Idealism. Fourth Annual Phenomenology Roundtable, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, May 30, 2004 (invited).
Husserl, Gadamer, and the Horizons of the Life-World. Marquette University, Milwaukee (WI), February 10, 2004 (invited).
Reduction and Reconstruction: On the Methodological Dispute Between Natorp and Husserl Regarding the Question of Subjectivity. Annual Conference of the International Husserl Circle, Fordham University, New York, June 12, 2003.
Another Look at the Husserl-Heidegger Relationship. University of Northern Florida, Jacksonville. March 26, 2003 (invited).
A Phenomenology of Subjective and Objective Spirit: Husserl and Cassirer. Leroy S. Loemker Philosophy Colloquium Series (Spring 2003) Emory University (invited), January 23, 2003 and 42nd Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Boston, November 7, 2003 and Xavier University, Cincinnati, January 23, 2004 (invited).
Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: A Phenomenology of Objective Spirit. University College Dublin, November 29, 2002 (invited).
Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: A Critical Appraisal. “Research in Progress” speakers program, University of Memphis, November 15, 2002 (invited).
Husserl’s Concept of the Transcendental Person: A Response to Heidegger. 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Chicago, October 11, 2002, and Georgia State University, Philosophy Colloquium, February 6, 2003 (invited).
Conceptualizing the World as System: Intentionality and Symbolic Formation (Husserl and Cassirer). DePaul University, Chicago, and McGill University, Montreal, January 25 & 28, 2002 (both invited).
Husserl’s Philosophy of the Phenomenological Reduction. Uni versity College Dublin, Ireland, Series “Invited Speaker Seminars 1999-2000,” and the University of Galway, Ireland, April 13 & 14, 2000 (both invited).
“Dialectics of the Absolute”: The Systematics of the Phenomenological System in Husserl's Last Period. Panel on “Systematic Phenomenology: Husserl on Method, System, and Representation,” with D. Welton and J. Brough at the 38th Annual SPEP Meeting, Eugene (OR), October 1999.
Husserl on the Artist and the Philosopher: Natural, Aesthetical and Philosophical Attitude. Society for Phenomenology and Media, National University, San Diego, California, February 1999.
Abnormality and the Counter-Normal of the Phenomenological Reduction. Annual Conference of the International Husserl Circle 1999, University of Memphis, Tennessee, February 1999.
Husserl’s Characterization of the Relationship between Natural and Philosophical Attitude. First International Postgraduate Conference, University of Erlangen, Germany, November 1998.
The World According to Husserl: The Phenomenological Discovery of the Natural Attitude, Mid-South Conference in Philosophy, Uni versity of Memphis, Tennessee, March 1997.
Husserl’s and Fink’s Reflections Upon a Transcendental Theory of Method: The Split ting of the Ego as the Separation Between the Natural and the Philosophical At titude, Annual Conference of the International Husserl Circle 1996, University of Texas at Arlington, June 1996.
Husserl and Fink on the Phenomenological Reduction, Inter na tional Conference on Continental Philosophy, University of Essex, U.K., February 1996.
Presentations in German
Phaenomenologie Als Erste Philosophie und das Problem der "Wissenschaft von der Lebenswelt," Lebenswelt und Wissenschaft: XXI. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, Essen, September 18, 2008.
Wie Kann Phänomenologie Ethik Betreiben? Philosophy Department, Karl-Franzens-University Graz (Austria), May 29, 2007 (invited).
Das Subjekt Als Moralische Person: Zu Husserls Späten Reflexionen Bezüglich des Personenbegriffs. Conference of the Austrian Society of Philosophy (ÖGP), Graz, June 8, 2007, at the Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic), June 23, 2007, and at the Academy of Sciences of Slovakia, Bratislava, July 2, 2007 (all invited).
Husserl, Natorp und das Problem der Kontinuität von Leben, Wissenschaft und Philosophie. Conference “Neukantianismus im Diskurs,“ University of Marburg, Germany, October 2, 2004 (invited).
Husserls Konzept der transzendentalen Person. Husserl-Arbeitstage 2001, University of Cologne, October 26, 2001 (invited).
Husserliana – Kritische Edition von Edmund Husserls Schriften (with B. Goossens). Engerer Kreis der Allgemeine Gesellschaft f Philosophie Deutschland, University of Würzburg, September 2001.
Faktizität und Geschichtlichkeit als Konstituentien der Lebenswelt in Husserls Spätphilosophie. Conference “Geschichte und Geschichten in der Phänomenologie,“ Deutsche Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Forschung, Freiburg i. Br., September 28, 2000.
“Absolute Dialektik“: Zur Phänomenologie des phänomenologischen Systems in Husserls letzter Phase. Husserl-Arbeitstage 1999, University of Cologne, Germany, October 1999 (invited).
Phänomenologische und Mundane Reduktion. Conference “Die Sichtbarkeit des Unsichtbaren,“ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Phänomenologische Forschung, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, September 1998.
Presentations in French & Spanish
Desde el Ser a lo Dado y Desde lo Dado al Ser: Algunos Comentarios Sobre el Significado del Idealismo Trascendental en Kant y Husserl. University of Barcelona, Spain, June 28, 2006 (invited).
“Idealismo Realista”. Una Respuesta Husserliana Heterodoxa a la Pregunta Del Idealismo Trascendental. Conference “XIV Encuentro Nacional de Fenomenología y Hermenéutica,” Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 26, 2003 (invited keynote).
Quelques Problèmes Fondamentaux Concernant les Réflexions Husserliennes Tardives Sur la Réduction. Conference “La Réduction, Méthode-Princeps de la Phénoménologie: Asepcts Historique, Théorique et Pratique,” Collège International de Philosophie, Paris, June 5, 2000 (invited).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of San Juan, P.R. 2008 Graduate Course (in Spanish):
Seminar: Classical Phenomenology
University of Graz 2007 Graduate Courses (in German):
Lecture: Introduction to Neo-Kantianism
Seminar: Phenomenological Ethics and Philosophy of Right
Marquette University 2004-present Undergraduate Courses:
PHIL050: Philosophy of Human Nature (regular and Honors)
PHIL104: Theory of Ethics (regular and Honors)
PHIL117: Nineteenth-Century German Philosophy
PHIL160: Existentialism
PHIL196: The Experience of Crisis in 20th Century Philosophy (Senior Seminar, 2006)
HOPR100: Philosophy in Poetry (Honors)
ARSC 007: Introduction to Inquiry
Graduate Courses:
PHIL232: Kant
PHIL233: Hegel
PHIL301: Phenomenology and Ethics
PHIL301: Early German Idealism
Directed Studies:
PHIL295: The Development of the Transcendental Ego in Husserl’s Phenomenology
PHIL295: The Social Thought of Edith Stein
Emory University 2002-2004 Undergraduate Courses:
PHIL100: Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL230: Philosophies of Human Nature
PHIL240: Philosophy of Art
PHIL250 & 251: History of Western Philosophy I & II (Ancient-Present)
Graduate Course:
PHIL789: Phenomenological Theories of Subjectivity (Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty)
Directed Studies:
Existentialism
Phenomenology & Eastern Thought
Catholic University of Louvain 1998-2002 Graduate Courses:
Husserl, Cartesian Meditations
Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
Husserl, Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Synthesis
German Idealism: Schelling, System of Transcendental Idealism
Directed Studies:
Phenomenology
Husserl (Selected Problems)
State University of New York at Stony Brook 1996-1997 Lecturer and Teaching Assistant
Undergraduate Courses:
PHIL103: Problems of Philosophy
PHIL250: Existentialism (TA for David B. Allison)
University of Heidelberg 1992-1994 Teaching Assistant
Undergraduate Courses (in German):
Interpretationskurs: Introduction to Heidegger (TA for Dominic Kaegi)
Interpretationskurs: Introduction to German Idealism (TA for Reiner Wiehl)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Philosophical Association (APA, as of 1997)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Forschung (as of 1998)
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP, as of 1998)
The International Husserl Circle (as of 1996)
North American Kant Society (NAKS, as of 2004)
German Studies Association (GSA, as of 2004)
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Member of Academic Advisory Board, Goethe House of Wisconsin (Milwaukee).
Freelance Journalist for Philosophy, Culture and Music: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, Heidelberg; Westdeutsche Zeitung, Düsseldorf/Wuppertal; and Online Musik Magazin, (1993-1997).