Matthew Burch - Normativity, Meaning, and the Promise of Phenomenology

This volume aims to assess the philosophical importance of phenomenology as a method for studying the normativity of meaning and its transcendental conditions. Using the pioneering work of Steven Crowell as a springboard, contributors to this volume examine the promise of phenomenology for illuminating long-standing problems in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, action theory, the philosophy of religion, and moral psychology. The essays are unique in that they engage with the phenomenological tradition not as a collection of authorities to whom we must defer, or a set of historical artifacts we must preserve, but rather as a community of interlocutors with views that bear on important issues in contemporary philosophy.

Normativity, Meaning, and the Promise of Phenomenology will be a key resource for students and scholars interested in the phenomenological tradition, the transcendental tradition from Kant to Davidson, and existentialism. Additionally, its forward-looking focus yields crucial insights into pressing philosophical problems that will appeal to scholars working across all areas of the discipline.

Matthew Burch is a philosophy lecturer at the University of Essex. His research interests lie at the intersection of phenomenology and the cognitive and social sciences. He has published in Inquiry, The European Journal of Philosophy, and Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. He is currently a Research Fellow with the Independent Social Research Foundation.

Jack Marsh is a St. Leonards Scholar in Religion at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Saying Violence: Levinas, Chauvinism, Disinterest (forthcoming). His work has appeared in many journals, including Philosophy and Social Criticism, Levinas Studies, and Philosophy Today.

Irene McMullin teaches philosophy at the University of Essex. She specializes in Ethics and 20th Century European philosophy. In 2013 she published Time and the Shared World: Heidegger on Social Relations. Her second book, Existential Flourishing: A Phenomenology of the Virtues, was published by Cambridge in 2018.

Edited by
Sren Overgaard

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Komarine Romdenh-Romluc

University of Sheffield, UK

David Cerbone

West Virginia University, USA

Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty

Edited by Komarine Romdenh-Romluc

Pragmatic Perspectives in Phenomenology

Edited by Ondej vec and Jakub apek

Phenomenology of Plurality
Hannah Arendt on Political Intersubjectivity

Sophie Loidolt

Phenomenology, Naturalism and Science
A Hybrid and Heretical Proposal

Jack Reynolds

Imagination and Social Perspectives
Approaches from Phenomenology and Psychopathology

Edited by Michela Summa, Thomas Fuchs, and Luca Vanzago

Wittgenstein and Phenomenology

Edited by Oskari Kuusela, Mihai Ometi, and Timur Uan

Husserls Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity
Historical Interpretations and Contemporary Applications

Edited by Frode Kjosavik, Christian Beyer, and Christel Fricke

Phenomenology of the Broken Body

Edited by Espen Dahl, Cassandra Falke, and Thor Erik Eriksen

Normativity, Meaning, and the Promise of Phenomenology

Edited by Matthew Burch, Jack Marsh, and Irene McMullin

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Edited by Matthew Burch, Jack Marsh, and Irene McMullin

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Names: Burch, Matthew, 1977 editor.

Title: Normativity, meaning, and the promise of phenomenology / edited by Matthew Burch, Jack Marsh, and Irene McMullin.

Description: 1 [edition]. | New York : Taylor & Francis, 2019. | Series: Routledge research in phenomenology ; 13 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019006698 | ISBN 9781138479913 (hardback)

Subjects: LCSH: Phenomenology. | Methodology. | Meaning (Philosophy) | Normativity (Ethics)

Classification: LCC B829.5 .N67 2019 | DDC 142/.7dc23

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For Steven Crowell: Philosopher, Teacher, Friend