Early Influences of Phenomenology: Neo-Kantianism, American Pragmatism,
Experimental Psychology, et al.
The North American Society for Early Phenomenology
April 4th – 6th, 2014
Boston College
Day 1: April 4th
9:00am – 9:30: Registration/Coffee
9:30 –9:40: Opening Remarks – Rodney Parker, Vice-President, NASEP
Session 1 (A) - McGuinn 521
Session 1 (B) - Higgins 280
Chaired by Christian Dupont
Chaired by Iker Garcia
9:45 – 10:30: Jason Bell (Mount Allison
University, Canada) - From Analytic to
Synthetic Idealism: A Dialogue Among
Berkeley, Royce, and Husserl (with mediation
by Winthrop Bell)
9:45 – 10:30: Timothy Martell (University of
Portland, USA) - Husserl and Cassirer on the
Phenomenology of Perception
10:30 – 11:15: Andrea Cimino (Boston
College, USA) - On Transcendental Idealism:
Husserl and the Göttingen Phenomenological
Circle
10:30 – 11:15: Edoardo Caracciolo
(University of Turin, Italy) - Husserl and
Natorp, rethinking spatial a priori
11:15 – 11:30: Coffee Break
Plenary - McGuinn 521
11:30 –12:45: Andrea Staiti (Boston College, USA)
What do we do when we judge? An early controversy between Husserl and Rickert
12:45 – 1:45: Lunch
Session 2 (A) - McGuinn 521
Chair: TBA
Session 2 (B) - Higgins 280
Chair: TBA
1:45 – 2:30: Joona Taipale (Center for
Subjectivity Research, University of
Copenhagen, Denmark) – Empathy and
transference in early phenomenology and
psychoanalysis
1:45 – 2:30: Christian Dupont (Independent
scholar, USA) - Charles Serrus and the Société
d’études philosophique du sud-est: A
Neglected Episode in the French Reception of
Husserl’s Phenomenology
2:30 – 3:15: Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray
(University of Guelph, Canada) Einfühlungsphänomenologie: One Piece of the
Daubert Mystery
2:30 – 3:15: Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús
(Emory University, USA) - Jean Héring’s
Theory of Essence and Walter Benjamin’s
“Historical Index:” Towards a “Realist”
Phenomenology of History
3:15 – 3:30: Coffee Break
Session 3 (A) - McGuinn 521
Chair: TBA
Session 3 (B) - Higgins 280
Chair: TBA
3:30 – 4:15: Biagio Tassone (La Salle
University, USA) - Spatial Representation and
Gestalt Isomorphism: Theories on the origins
of spatial perception in Stumpf, Köhler and
Lehar
3:30 – 4:15: Susan Gottlöber (NUI Maynooth,
Ireland) - War as Renewal: Scheler, Natorp,
and the Ideas of 1914
4:15 – 5:00: Tyler Friedman (Marquette
University, USA) - The Influence of Carl
Stumpf’s Theory of Fusion in Husserl’s
Logical Investigations
4:15 – 5:00: Iker Garcia (University of
Illinois, USA) – Ortega’s Reception of
Husserl: Meditations on Quixote
5:00 – 5:15: Coffee Break
Plenary - McGuinn 521
5:15 – 6:30: Dan Zahavi (Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen,
Denmark)
Husserl, Stein and Scheler on Empathy and the Self
Day 2: April 5th
Session 4 (A) - Stokes S195
Session 4 (B) - Gasson 305
Chaired by Bernardo Ainbinder
Chaired by Frederic Tremblay
9:30 – 10:15: Hayden Kee (KU Leuven,
Belgium) – Lotze and Husserl
9:30 – 10:15: Natalia Danilkina (Immanuel
Kant Baltic Federal University, Russia) Nicolai Hartmann and Sergei Hessen in
Opposition to Value Relativism
10:15 – 11:00: Peter Andras Varga
(Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest,
Hungary) - The Ignorabimus Debate and the
Early Phenomenology’s Notion of Metaphysics
10:15 – 11:00: Tommaso Perrone (University
of Salento, Italy) - Beyond a Representational
Understanding of Intentionality and
Value Definiteness Phenomenologically
Assessed
11:00 – 11:15: Coffee Break
Plenary - Stokes S195
11:15 – 12:30: Fiorenza Toccafondi (University of Parma, Italy)
The Early Phenomenology between Description and Science: Ewald Hering versus Hermann von
Helmholtz
12:30 – 1:30: Lunch
Session 5 (A) - Stokes S195
Session 5 (B) - Gasson 305
Chaired by Andrei Bronnikov
Chaired by Liat Lavi
1:30 – 2:15: Frederic Tremblay (SUNY
Buffalo, USA) –Nikolai Lossky and Nicolai
Hartmann: Overcoming Phenomenology
1:30 – 2:15: George Heffernan (Merrimack
College, USA) – The Paradox of Objectless
Presentations in Early Phenomenology
2:15 – 3:00: Dalius Jonkus (Vytautas Magnus
University, Lithuania) – Phenomenological
Approaches to Self-Consciousness and
Unconsciousness – Moritz Geiger and Vasily
Sesemann
2:15 – 3:00: J. Edward Hackett (Southern
Illinois University, USA) – A Pragmatic
Interpretation of Scheler’s Metaphysics of
Drang and Geist
3:00 – 3:15: Coffee Break
Session 6 (A) - Stokes S195
Chair: TBA
Session 6 (B) - Gasson 305
Chaired by Timothy Burns
3:15 – 4:00: Thomas Vongehr (KU Leuven,
Belgium) – The Nearly Forgotten Descriptive
Psychology of Theodor Lipps
3:15 – 4:00: Alessandro Salice (Center for
Subjectivity Research, University of
Copenhagen, Denmark) – Max Scheler on
Collective Persons
4:00 – 4:45: Martina Stratilková (Palacký
University, Czech Republic) – Husserl’s
notion of inner perception and the philosophy
of music in Geiger
4:00 – 4:45: Zachary Davis (St. John’s
University, USA) – Why the Early Reception
of Pragmatism In Europe Matters
4:45 – 5:00: Coffee Break
Plenary - Stokes S195
5:15 – 6:30: Sebastian Luft (Marquette University, USA)
Husserl’s Critique of the Neo-Kantian (Southwest) Theory of Science and Its Consequences for
the Phenomenological Research Program
8:00: Banquet
Location TBA
Day 3: April 6th
Session 7 (A) - Stokes S195
Chair: TBA
Session 7 (B) - Gasson 305
Chair: TBA
10:00 – 10:45: Liat Lavi (Bar-Ilan University,
Israel) – Reconsidering James’ Influence on
Husserl’s concept of Horizon
10:00 – 10:45: Ignacio Quepons (National
Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico) Intentionality of Feelings, Moods and SelfAwareness: Remarks on the debate between
Husserl and Geiger
10:45 – 11:00: Coffee Break
Plenary - Stokes S195
11:00 – 12:15: Daniel Dahlstrom (Boston University, USA)
Natorp and Phenomenology
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch
1:15 – 2:00: NASEP Annual General Meeting
Session 8 (A) - Stokes S195
Chair: TBA
Session 8 (B) - Gasson 305
Chair: TBA
2:00 – 2:45: Bernardo Ainbinder (National
Council for Scientific Research (CONICET),
Argentina) - Grounding logic in experience:
Lask’s metaphilosophy and the
phenomenological grounding of transcendental
logic
2:00 – 2:45: Timothy Burns (University
College Dublin, Ireland) - Empathy in
Dialogue: The Influence of Theodore Lipps’
theory of Einfühlung on Edmund Husserl and
Edith Stein
2:45 – 3:30: Anna Donise (University of
Naples Federico II, Italy) - If Neo-Kantianism
Becomes "Emotionalism": Husserl's critiques
to Heinrich Rickert's Concept of Reason
2:45 – 3:30: Molly Flynn (Assumption
College, USA) - Communities of Strangers
3:00 – 3:45: Coffee Break
Plenary - Stokes S195
3:45 – 5:00: Ullrich Melle (Husserl Archives, KU Leuven, Belgium)
Forms and Modalities of Volitional Intentionality.
Husserl’s Volitional Investigations in his “Studies of the Structure of Consciousness”
5:00 – 5:15: Closing Address
Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray, President, NASEP