Harry P. Reeder

"The unexamined life is not worth living"-Plato, Apology 38a




"Back to the things themselves!"-Edmund Husserl

In our philosophizing, then--how can we avoid it?--we are functionaries of mankind. (Husserl, The Crisis in European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, p. 17.)


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Education:

B.A. University of Illinois, Urbana 1968
M.A. University of Waterloo (Ontario) 1974
Ph.D. University of Waterloo 1977
Dissertation title: Public and Private Aspects of Meaning in Husserl and Wittgenstein

Areas of specialization: phenomenology, Wittgenstein, hermeneutics

Areas of interest: critical thinking, philosophy of science


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Courses taught regularly:

Critical Thinking (undergrad)-
Sample Syllabus
Introduction to Philosophy (undergrad)-Sample Syllabus
Phenomenology (grad and undergrad)-Sample Syllabus
Philosophy of Science (grad and undergrad)-Sample Syllabus
Hermeneutics (Theories of Interpretation) (grad and undergrad)- Sample Syllabus
Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy (grad and undergrad)-Sample Syllabus
Existentialism (grad and undergrad)-Sample Syllabus

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Selected Publications

     Books:

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La globalización y la fenomenología del lenguaje, (Serie Fenomenología, No. 10), (Morelia, México: Jitanjáfora Morelia Editorial, 2009), in press.

Ser y sentido: teoría y práctica de una fenomenología trascendental-hermenéutica, co-authored with Germán Vargas Guillén, (Bogotá: Editorial San Pablo, 2009), in press.

The Theory and Practice of Husserl's Phenomenology, 2nd Enlarged Ed., (Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2008), in press.

Arguing with Care, (Bogotá: Editorial San Pablo, 2008).

Humanización como formación, co-authored with Germán Vargas Guillén and Sonia Cristina Gamboa Sarmiento, (Bogotá: Editorial San Pablo, 2008).

Argumentando con cuidado, (Colección Textos de Filosofía), (Bogotá: Universidad Pedagógica Nacional y Editorial San Pablo, 2007).

Lenguaje: dimensiones lingüísticas y extralingüísticas del sentido, (Colección Filosofía y enseñanza de la filosofía -7), (Bogotá: Editorial San Pablo-Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, 2007).

The Work of Felix Kaufmann, (Current Continental Research Series, no. 220), (N.Y.: University Press of America and the Centre for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, 1991).

The Theory and Practice of Husserl's Phenomenology, (N.Y.: University Press of America, 1986).

Language and Experience: Descriptions of Living Language in Husserl and Wittgenstein, (Current Continental Research, No. 301), (N.Y.: University Press of America and the Centre for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, 1984).

     Refereed Journal Articles:

"Lenguaje y sentido: en la construcción de lo público en Hannah Arendt," co-authored with Germán Vargas Guillén, in Praxis Filosófico, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, No. 26, January-June, 2008, pp. 151-168.

"Intención Signitiva y Textura Semántica," trad. Esteban Marín Ávila, Devenires. Revista de Filosofía y Filosofía de la Cultura, Año VII, Número 14, julio 2006, pp. 19-50.

"Signitive Intention and Semantic Texture," Husserl Studies 20, no. 3(2004), pp. 183-206.

Chinese translation of "Husserl and Wittgenstein on the 'Mental Picture Theory of Meaning,'" tr. Professor Wang Tang Jia, Fudan University, Huishou Social Sciences, 1996.

"Never Say 'Never Say Never': Reply to Nicholas Gier, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Volume 22 (May, 1991), pp. 97-98.

"Hermeneutics and Apodicticity in Phenomenological Method," Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol. 6 no. 2, July, 1990, pp. 43-69.

"Husserl's 'Apodictic Evidence,' " Southwest Philosophical Studies 12(Spring, 1990), pp. 70-88.

"Wittgenstein Never Was a Phenomenologist," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 20, No. 3 (October, 1989), pp. 49-68.

"Logic and Interpretation: Norm and Polyseme," Word, vol. 37, no. 1-2 (1986), pp. 111-123.

"A Phenomenological Account of the Linguistic Mediation of the Public and the Private," Husserl Studies, Vol. 1, no. 3 (1984), pp. 263-280.

"The Nature of Critical Thinking," Informal Logic, Vol. vi., no. 1 (January, 1984, p. 28).

"Husserl and Wittgenstein on the 'Mental Picture Theory of Meaning,' " Human Studies, vol. 3 (1980), pp. 157-167.

"Language and the Phenomenological Reduction: A Reply to a Wittgensteinian Objection," Man and World, vol. XII, no. 1, (1979), pp. 35-46.

"Cogito, Ergo Sum: Inference and Performance," Eidos, vol. I, no. 1(1978), pp. 30-49.

     Refereed Book Chapters:

"Alfred Schutz and Felix Kaufmann: The Methodologist's Brackets," in Lester Embree, George Psathas, Ilja Srubar, and Hisashi Nasu edd., Schutz and His Intellectual Partners, UVK Verlaggesellschaft, 2008, in press.

"Felix Kaufmann, metodólogo," in Acta Fenomenológica Latinamericana, Vol. III, Morelia, Mexico: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú, in press.

"El flujo heraclíteo y sentidos parmenídeos," in Acta Fenomenológica Latinamericana, Vol. III, Morelia, Mexico: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú, in press.

"Living Words and Concepts: Semantic Space and Semantic Texture," electronic publication in Phenomenology 2005: Selected Essays from North America, (Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2007), pp. 535-559.

"Globalización, Ethos y las Normas Pragmático-transcendentales del Discurso," (Guatemala City: University of Rafael Landívar Press), in press.

"Phenomenological Insights into Globalizing Education and the Preservation of Indigenous Cultures, " in Roy O. Elveton, ed., Educating for Participatory Democracy: Paradoxes in Globalizing Logics, (Critical Bodies), (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2006), pp. 161-168.

"Discernimientos Fenomenológicas en la Globalización de la Educación y en la Preservación de las Culturas Indígenas," in Educación para la Democracia Participativa: Paradojas en la Lógica de la Globalización, (Guatemala City: University of Rafael Landívar Press, 2005), pp. 169-175.

"Quantum Phenomenology," in Young-Ho Lee and Soon-Young Park eds., Phenomenology of Nature: Festschrift in Honor of Kah Kyung Cho, (Seoul: Korean Society for Phenomenology, 1998), pp. 207-235.

"Husserl's Phenomenology and Contemporary Science," in Burt Hopkins, ed., Husserl in Contemporary Context: Prospects and Projects for Phenomenology, (Contributions to Phenomenology), (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997), 211-234.

"Self-Presentation," in E.F. Kaelin and C.O. Schrag, edd. American Phenomenology: Origins and Developments, (Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, Vol., XXVI), (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989), pp. 367-368.

"A Phenomenological Exploration of Popper's 'World 3,'" co-author L. Langsdorf, in Horizons of Continental Philosophy: Essays on Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty, Hugh J. Silverman, Algis Mickunas, Theodore Kisiel, and Alphonso Lingis, edd. (Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library, Volume 30) (Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1988), pp. 93-129.

"The Whole Business of Seeing: Paradigms, Perception and Cognition in Kuhn's Account of Science," co-author L. Langsdorf, in Don Ihde and Hugh Silverman edd., Descriptions, (Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Vol. 11), (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1985), pp. 175-199.

"A Chronological Bibliography of the Works of Felix Kaufmann," Appendix to Felix Kaufmann, The Infinite In Mathematics, ed., and tr. Brian McGuinness (Vienna Circle Collection, 9), (Dordrecht and Boston: Reidel, 1978), pp. 225-228.

     Invited Dictionary/Encyclopedia Articles:

"Felix Kaufmann (1895-1949)," in Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, 1860-1960, Thommes Press, in press.

"Kaufmann, Felix" (in Polish), in Powszechna Encyklopedia Filozofii, Vol. V, (Lublin: Polskie Towarzystwo Tomasza z Akwinu, 2004), pp. 556-557.

"Felix Kaufmann," in Lester Embree, et. al., edd., The Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, (Contributions to Phenomenology, Vol. 18.), (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997), 382-285.

"Ludwig Wittgenstein," in Lester Embree, et. al., edd., The Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, (Contributions to Phenomenology, Vol. 18.), (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997), 732-736.


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Useful links:

Husserl Circle
The Husserl Page
Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology
Latin American Circle of Phenomenology (CLAFEN, Círculo Latinoamericano de Fenomenología)
International Philosophy Conference, Guatemala



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