Sanders Mark - Ethics and Phenomenology

We would like to thank all of the contributors to this volume for making it what it is. Your collective intelligence and insight deserve the highest praise. We would also like to thank Dillon Emerick for organizing a meeting of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World at the Eastern Division of the APA in 2009the forum where some these essays had their first audiences. Jana Hodges-Kluck, of Lexington Press, deserves special thanks as well. Her interest in the project was inspirational. Finally, we would like to thank Jordan Liz, our research assistant, whose diligent work made the task of putting this volume together much more manageable than it otherwise would have been.

Chapter 8 and Chapter 12 first appeared in Volume 7.1 of the Review Journal of Political Philosophy, in a special section dedicated to ethics and phenomenol o gy. We thank Cambridge Scholars Press for permission to reprint those chapters here.

Mark would also like to thank his colleagues in the Philosophy Department and the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of North Car o lina at Charlotte for helping him continually see the importance and complex i ties of ethics. Most importantly he would like to thank his amazing wife, Dana, for being there whenever he needed her. Mark cannot imagine where he would be without her. He would also like to thank the new addition to their family, their daughter Celeste, whose birth during the process of putting this volume together has inspired him to be the best father and best human being he can be. To this end, he would like to thank his brother who has set an inspirational e x ample as a father. Lastly, Mark would like to thank his parents, who have a l ways been his greatest source of support and inspiration.

Jeremy would like to thank his colleagues for their continuous support, intelle c tual and otherwise. This work was supported in part through the Hartwick College Faculty Research Grants Program. Thanks thus also go to Hartwick College, which provided financial support crucial to the completion of this project. Fina l ly, and most importantly, Jeremy would like to thank his wife, Dorothy, and his children, Audrey and Lucian, for keeping him mindful of what really matters.

Janet Donohoe is p rofessor of p hilosophy at the University of West Georgia. She is author of Husserl on Ethics and Intersubjectivity: From Static to Genetic Phenomenology as well as many articles ranging from feminist phenomenology to Heidegger and Benjamin to environmental hermeneutics. Her current research is grounded in phenomenology using that method as an approach to issues of place and the built environment as well as to issues of feminism.

Dwight Furrow is p rofessor of p hilosophy at San Diego Mesa College in San Diego, California. He received his Ph.D. in p hilosophy from University of Cal i fornia, Riverside and specializes in ethics and social and political philosophy. Professor Furrow is the author of Against Theory: Continental and Analytic Challenges in Moral Philosophy (Routledge, 1995), Ethics: Key Concepts in Philosophy, (Continuum Press, 2005), and Reviving the Left: The Need to R e store Liberal Values in America (Prometheus Press, 2009). Furrow is also the editor of Moral Soundings: Readings on the Crisis of Values in Contemporary Life , (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), and the author of a variety of professional journal articles, magazine and o p-ed pieces.

Susan Gottlber completed her studies in p hilosophy at the TU Dresden and is now lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at NUI Maynooth. Her research interests lie mainly in the areas of philosophical anthropology, philosophy of religion and tolerance, publications include articles on Nicholas of Cusa, Max Scheler and Jan Patocka. She is c o-editor of the series "Religionsphilosophie. Diskurse und Orientierungen" ("Philosophy of Religions. Discourses and Orie n tations").

Edward J. Grippe received his Ph.D. in p hilosophy from The City University of New York, Graduate Center . He is a p rofessor of p hilosophy and e thics at Norwalk Community College. He a lso is an adjunct professor of p hilosophy at Bedford Hill Correctional Facility. He has worked as a n ethical consul tant and is currently vice chair of his town's e thics b oard. He has authored a book, Richard Rorty's New Pragmatism: Neither Liberal Nor Free [Continuum 2007], as well as several articles on Richard Rorty's pragmatism, Plato, applied ethics, and democratic governance. He has served as subscription e ditor for the Internet En cyclopedia of Philosophy, m oderator, for the Society for Philosophy in Co n temporary World , c o-organizer for the Society for the Study of Life Ethics, and is currently a c ivic r eflection f acilitator at various institutions.

Paul Gyllenhammer is a ssociate professor of p hilosophy at St. John's Univers i ty (Queens, NY). His research interests are in the areas of virtue ethics, pheno m enology, hermeneutics and critical theory. Recent publications include: " Virtue , Ethics , and Neurosis, " Schutzian Research (2011) and " Normality in Husserl and Foucault, " Research in Phenomenology (2010). Past Chair of the Editorial Board of, PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture , he currently serves as the journal's Managing Editor.

Maurice Hamington is p rofessor of women's studies and philosophy as well as d irector of the Institute for Women's Studies and Services at Metropolitan State College of Denver. He is both a theoretical and applied ethicist with interests in feminism, embodiment, American philosophy, and phenomenology. His publ i cations include Revealing Philosophy (Thinking Strings, forthcoming); Conte m porary Feminist Pragmatism (Routledge, 2012), co-edited with Celia Bardwell-Jones; Applying Care Ethics to Business (Springer, 2011), co-edited with Maureen Sander-Staudt; Feminist Interpretations of Jane Addams (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), an edited volume; Feminism and Hospitality: Gender in the Host/Guest Relationship (Lexington Books, 2010), an edited vo l ume; The Social Philosophy of Jane Addams (University of Illinois Press, 2009); Socializing Care: Feminist Ethics and Public Issues (Rowman Littlefield, 2006), co-edited with Dorothy C. Miller; Embodied Care: Jane Addams, Ma u rice Merleau-Ponty and Feminist Ethics (University of Illinois Press, 2004); Revealing Male Bodies (Indiana University Press, 2002), co-edited with Nancy Tuana et al; and, Hail Mary? The Struggle for Ultimate Womanhood in Cathol i cism (Routledge, 1995).

Gordon Hull is assistant professor of p hilosophy at the University of North Carolina , Charlotte. He works in the history of political thought, philosophy of technology, and contemporary moral and political theory. He is the author of Hobbes and the Making of Modern Political Thought (Continuum, 2009) , several articles on intellectual property, and is currently working on a book man u script about the intersection of Foucauldian biopolitics and intellectual property.

Eugene Kelly is professor of p hilosophy at the New York Institute of Technol o gy, Old Westbury, NY (USA). Interests: e thics, p hilosophy of r eligion, g erman philosophy of the twentieth century. Books: Max Scheler (Twayne, 1977); Structure and Diversity (Kluwer, 1997); Basics of Western Philosophy (Green wood, 2002; Prometheus, 2004), Material Value Ethics (Sprin g er, Phaenomenologica series; forthcoming in 2011). Article: " Vom Urspru ng des Menschen bei Max Scheler " in Person und Wert: Schelers Formalismus: Perspektive und Wirkungen , ed. Christian Bermes et al. (Alber: Freiburg und Mnchen, 2000); other articles in J. of Social Philosophy , J. of Aesthetic Education , J. of Value Inquiry , Listening . Member of the board of the Max-Scheler-Gesellschaft. Co-editor (with T. Kasachkoff), American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching .