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IULIAN APOSTOLESCU Philosopher | Editor | Painter Email: [email protected] Web of Science ResearcherID: ABC-5941-2020 ORCID Identifier: 0000-0002-8619-5018 ACADEMIC EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS • 2014-2020 (expected): PhD Candidate in Philosophy - University of Bucharest (my doctoral thesis investigates Husserl’s characterization of phenomenology as the rigorous science of all conceivable transcendental phenomena in relation with Kantian and post-Kantian transcendental philosophy). PhD supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ilie Pârvu. • 2013: M.A. in Philosophy - University of Bucharest. • 2011: B.A. in Philosophy - University of Bucharest. WORK IN PROGRESS 1. Editor of the collective volume Phenomenology, Metaphysics, Ontology: Essays on Eugen Fink, De Gruyter, 2020. Read more: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/541128 2. Editor of the collective volume The Play of Being: New Perspectives on Eugen Fink’s Phenomenological Project, Brill, 2020. 3. Co-Editor with Mohammad Shafiei of the collection of essays Husserl and Leibniz: Metaphysics, Monadology and Phenomenology. 4. Co-Editor with Stefano Marino (Università di Bologna) of the special issue of Continental Philosophy Review: Varieties of the Lifeworld: Phenomenology and Aesthetic Experience. 5. Editor of the collective volume on the reception of Husserl's phenomenology of mathematics/sciences: Husserl and the Awakened Reason: Critical Essays on Mathematics, Science and Phenomenology. PRIMARY FIELDS OF RESEARCH • Kantian and post-Kantian transcendental philosophy • Franz Brentano • Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology • The early phenomenological movement • Martin Heidegger • Jan Patočka and the phenomenological movement in Central and Eastern Europe • The New Phenomenology • Merleau-Ponty 1 RESEARCH GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND FELLOWSHIPS • E.M. Cioran Fellowship: November 2011-November 2012. • Scholarship for scientific performance from the University of Bucharest: November 2012 – June 2013. • Summer School Bursary: Intention and Attention. A Joint Venture between Phenomenology and History of Philosophy, 25–29 July 2016, Institute of Philosophy, University of Würzburg. • Research Assistant: Phenomenological Approaches to the Anthropological Difference, project held under the auspices of Institute for Research in the Humanities. A research division of The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB). January 2016– November 2016. • Research Assistant: The Phenomenological Analysis of Axiomatic Mathematics, project held under the auspices of Institute for Research in the Humanities. A research division of The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB). October 2017 – December 2018 https://irhunibuc.wordpress.com/the-phenomenological-analysis-of-axiomatic- mathematics/ • Research Assistant: Brentano – Comte – Mill: The Idea of Philosophy and Psychology as Science, project held under the auspices of The Alexandru Dragomir – Institute for Philosophy. 2017 – 2019 http://brentano-comte-mill.institute.phenomenology.ro/ • André Scrima Fellowship 2021. Project Title: The Phenomenological Implications of André Scrima’s Apophatic Anthropology. PUBLICATIONS Edited Journals Special Issues 1. Guest Editor. META: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy, Vol. VIII, No. 2 / December 2016, Special Issue: Husserl and Kant: The Transcendental-Phenomenological Project. Read more: http://www.metajournal.org//issues_pdf/meta-issue-viii-no-2-2016.pdf 2. Guest Editor. Quaestiones Disputatae, Issue 7, No 1, Fall 2016, Special Issue: Husserl’s Phenomenological Time and Time-Consciousness. Read more: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/35955 3. Guest Editor with Claudia Serban. Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, Volume 7, Number 1/2018, Special Issue: Transcendental Philosophy and Phenomenology. Read more: http://horizon.spb.ru/index.php?lang=en 4. Co-Editor with Susi Ferrarello (California State University) of the special topic issue of The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Volume 33, Number 1, 2019: The Religious Structure of 2 Phenomena: A Phenomenological Investigation. Read more: https://www.jstor.org/journal/jspecphil 5. Co-Editor with Susi Ferrarello (California State University) of the special topic issue of PhaenEx - Journal of Phenomenological and Existential Theory and Culture, Volume 13-2, 2019: Verticality, Emotions, and Religious Experience: Essays on Anthony J. Steinbock. Read more: https://phaenex.uwindsor.ca/index.php/phaenex/index 6. Guest Editor. Acta Structuralica. International Journal for Structuralist Research, Special Issue 3: Romanian Structuralism, 2019. Published by sdvig press. Read more: https://acta.structuralica.org/pub-141523 7. Guest Editor. META: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy, Vol. XI, No. 2 / December 2019: After Husserl: Phenomenological Foundations of Mathematics. Published by Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press, Iasi, Romania. ISSN (online): 2067 – 3655. Read more: http://www.metajournal.org//issues_pdf/meta-xi-2-2019-pdf.pdf Phenomenological Reviews http://reviews.ophen.org/ 1. Volume 1 (2015). Published by sdvig press. 2. Volume 2 (2016). Published by sdvig press. 3. Volume 3 (2017). Published by sdvig press. 4. Volume 4 (2018). Published by sdvig press. 5. Volume 5 (2019). Published by sdvig press. Edited Books 1. Co-Editor with Claudia Serban (Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès University) of the anthology Husserl, Kant, and Transcendental Phenomenology, De Gruyter, 2020, Hardcover ISBN 978-3-11- 056428-0. Read more: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/495902 2. Iulian Apostolescu (Ed.), The Subject(s) of Phenomenology: Rereading Husserl, Contributions to Phenomenology, Volume 108, XIV, 380 pages, Springer International Publishing, 2020, Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29356-7. Read more: https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/534140 3. Iulian Apostolescu, Anca Irina Ionescu (Eds.), Existență, responsabilitate, transcendență. Volum omagial Jan Patočka însoțit de Conferințele de la Louvain, de Jan Patočka, Editura Universităţii „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, 2018, ISBN 9786067144635. 4. Iulian Apostolescu, Remus Breazu, Bogdan Mincă (Eds.), Aspecte ale metodei fenomenologice¸ Bucharest University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-606-16-0598-9. Articles, Book Reviews and Interviews in Refereed Journals 1. “Talia Welsh, The Child as Natural Phenomenologist: Primal and Primary Experience in Merleau- Ponty's Psychology (book review)", in: Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, issue 3.1 (2014). 2. “Douglas Low, Merleau-Ponty in Contemporary Context: Philosophy and Politics in the 3 Twenty-First Century (book review)”, in: Studia Phaenomenologica 2014 (ISSN: 1582-5647). 3. “The Phenomenologist’s Task: generativity, history, lifeworld. Interview with Professor Anthony J. Steinbock (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)”, in The Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology (ISSN: 2198-8595). 4. “The Things Themselves in the Light of the New Phenomenology: An Interview with Hermann Schmitz”, in: Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Volume 20, Issue 1, Spring 2016, pp. 230-236. 5. “Panos Theodorou, Husserl and Heidgger on Reduction, Primordiality, and the Categorial. Phenomenology Beyond its Original Divide, Springer, 2015, pp. vii-xxxvi, 381 (book review)”, in: Bulletin heideggérien. Organe international de recension et de diffusion des recherches heideggériennes, n°6, 2016. 8. “Editor's Notes”, in: Quaestiones Disputatae, Issue 7, No 1, Fall 2016: Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenological Time and Time-Consciousness, Catholic University of America Press, pp. 3-6. Read more: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/650590 7. “Sara Heinämaa, Mirja Hartimo, Timo Miettinen (Eds.), Phenomenology and the Transcendental, Routledge, New York (Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 1), 2014. ISBN 978-0-415-86988-1 (book review)”, in: Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, Volume 7, Number 1/2018, Special Issue: Transcendental Philosophy and Phenomenology. Read more: https://doi.org/10.21638/2226-5260-2018-7-1-240-246 8. “Introduction: Transcendental Philosophy and Phenomenology” (with Claudia Serban), in: Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, Volume 7, Number 1/2018, Special Issue: Transcendental Philosophy and Phenomenology. Read more: https://doi.org/10.21638/2226-5260-2018-7-1-9-12 9. „Critica husserliană a psihologiei lui Franz Brentano în Anexa la Cercetările logice” („Husserl’s Critique of Brentanist Psychology in the Appendix to the Logical Investigations”), in: Studii de istoria filosofiei universale, vol. XXVI, București, Ed. Academiei, 2018, (9 p.) ISSN 1583-8536 (BDI). 10. “Introduction: The Religious Structure of Phenomena—A Phenomenological Investigation” (with Susi Ferrarello), in: The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Volume 33, Number 1, 2019, pp. 1-7: The Religious Structure of Phenomena: A Phenomenological Investigation. Read more: https://www.jstor.org/journal/jspecphil Book Chapters 1. “Between Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. Grasping the Lebenswelt as an originary dimension of life”, in: Iulian Apostolescu, Remus Breazu, Bogdan Mincă (Eds), Aspecte ale metodei fenomenologice (Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-606-16-0598-9). 2. “Introduction”, in: Iulian Apostolescu (Ed.), The Subject(s) of Phenomenology: Rereading Husserl, Contributions to Phenomenology, Volume 108, XIV, 380 pages, Springer International Publishing, 2020, vii-xi. 4 Conference Papers 1. “The Exacerbation of Modern Science and the Lebenswelt" at the Graduate Student Conference: Philosophy and Modernity, University of Bucharest, Faculty