The North American Society for Early Phenomenology
Early Phenomenology in Context
22-24 May 2019 Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland
Arts and Administration Building 1045 and 1046
Wednesday 22 May 9:30-9:45 Coffee 9:45-10:00 Opening Remarks Keynote Address Chair: Charlene Elsby 10:00-11:15 Keynote Address “Loving, Hating, and Other a priori Personal Matters: Max Scheler’s Neglected Significance” Peter Trnka (Memorial University)
11:15-11:30 Coffee Session 1 Chair: Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray 11:30-13:00 “Brentano’s ‘Dual-Aspect’ Account of the Mental Act and its Importance to the Emergence of Contemporary Phenomenology” Biagio Tassone (La Salle University) “Koyré and the spread of phenomenology in France and the US” Rodney Parker (Dominican University College) 13:00-14:00 Lunch Session 2 Chair: Rodney Parker 14:00-15:30 “Phenomenology, Psychology, and Ideology: A New Look at the Life and Work of Else Voigtländer” George Heffernan (Merrimack College) “Militant Empathy—Ecological Prospects for Edith Stein’s Early Phenomenology” Craig Cramm (Memorial University) 15:30-15:45 Coffee Session 3 Chair: Charlene Elsby 15:45-17:15 “Towards a Political History of the Concept of Empathy” Suzanne McCullagh (Miami University) “The Philosophical Underpinnings of Von Hildebrand’s Anti-Nazi Works” Joseph Antoniello (Franciscan University of Steubenville)
Thursday 23 May 9:30-9:45 Coffee Session 4 Chair: Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray 9:45-11:15 North American Roman Ingarden Society Session “Roman Ingarden’s Concept of Time in the Literary Work of Art” Charlene Elsby (Purdue Fort Wayne) “Empathy and Aesthetics” Jeff Mitscherling (University of Guelph) 11:15-11:30 Coffee Session 5 Chair: Charlene Elsby 11:30-13:00 North American Roman Ingarden Society Session “Ingarden’s Response to Husserl” Rob Luzecky (Purdue Fort Wayne) “Twardowski, Husserl and Ingarden on the Unity of Object” Marek Piwowarczyk (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) 13:00-14:00 Lunch Session 6 Chair: Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray 14:00-15:30 “Return and Genesis in a Time of Decline: Husserl’s Genetic Phenomenology in the Context of the Weimar Republic” Ryan Adams (Franciscan University of Steubenville) “Oskar Kraus's Criticism of Husserl's Vorlesungen” Bob Sandmeyer (University of Kentucky) 15:30-15:45 Coffee Keynote Address Chair: Rodney Parker 15:45-17:00 Andreea Smaranda Aldea (Kent State University) Keynote Address “Imagination and Empathy – Self-Variation, Alterity, and Radical Self-Reflection”
17:00-19:00 Wine and Cheese Reception Sponsored by the Philosophy Department at Memorial University
Friday 24 May 9:30-9:45 Coffee 9:45-11:00 Chair: Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray Keynote Address Keynote Address “Husserl‘s Invention of the Reduction in 1905 as Alpha and Omega of the Phenomenological Movement” Thomas Vongehr (KU Leuven)
11:00-11:15 Coffee Session 7 Chair: Rodney Parker 11:15-12:45 “Bogged Down in Ontologism and Realism: The Phenomenology of Adolf Reinach” Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray (King’s University College) “Conrad-Martius and Critical Realism” Randy Dible (New School for Social Research) 12:45-13:45 Lunch Session 8 Chair: TBD 13:45-15:15 “The Discovery of the ‘Null Basis’: The notion of authenticity from Brentano through Husserl to Heidegger” Renxiang Liu (McGill University) “The Irreducibility of the Second Person” Alistair Welchman (University of Texas at San Antonio) 15:15-15:30 Closing Remarks 15:30-16:30 Business Meeting