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Andreas Beinsteiner studied philosophy and computer science in Innsbruck, Bergen and Freiburg im Breisgau and is currently completing his doctoral research on Heideggers philosophy of media. He is interested in (post) phenomenology and (post)hermeneutics, philosophy of technology and critical theory. He co-edited Krperphantasien: TechnisierungOptimierungTranshumanismus (2016, in German).
Jakub apek, is an associate professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague. His areas of specialization cover twentieth-century German and French philosophy, especially phenomenology and hermeneutics; philosophy of action; philosophy of perception; and questions of personal identity. He published a monograph on Merleau-Ponty (Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Myslet podle vnmn [Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Thinking According to Perception], Prague: Filosofia, 2012, 360 pp.), and a book-length contribution to the action theory ( Action et situation: Le sens du possible entre phnomnologie et hermneutique . Hildesheim, Zurich, New York: Olms, 2010). Jakub apek translated several philosophical works from French and German into Czech, such as Merleau-Pontys Phnomnologie de la perception , Paul Ricoeurs Philosophie de la volont I: Le volontaire et linvolontaire , or Eugen Finks work Sein, Wahrheit, Welt .
Steven Crowell is a professor of philosophy and the Joseph and Joanna Nazro Mullen Professor of Humanities at Rice University. He is the author of two books, Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning: Paths Toward Transcendental Phenomenology (Northwestern University Press, 2001), in addition to numerous articles on phenomenology and continental philosophy. He recently edited the Cambridge Companion to Existentialism (2012) and with Jeff Malpas, Transcendental Heidegger (Stanford University Press, 2007). Crowell has served as executive co-director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, and he is currently co-editor of Husserl Studies .
Zachary Davis is an associate professor of philosophy at St. Johns University in Queens, New York. His areas of interest include twentieth-century European philosophy with a concentration in phenomenology and social-political philosophy. He is currently completing a book on Max Schelers political thought, Love and Power , as well as an English translation of Schelers Cognition and Work . Zachary is also the president of the Max Scheler Society of North America.
Eddo Evink received his PhD from the University of Tilburg, with a thesis on ethics, religion and metaphysics in Jacques Derrida. He is currently professor in philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Law of the Open University and assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen. He works in the fields of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Art and Philosophy of the Humanitieswith an emphasis on phenomenology, hermeneutics and deconstruction.
Sophie Loidolt is guest professor at the Philosophy Department of the University of Kassel and member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (AW). She was a visiting researcher in Paris, Leuven, Copenhagen and New York, where she spent a semester as Visiting Scholar and APART-Fellow (AW) at the New School for Social Research. She has published numerous articles on phenomenology and is the author of two monographs, Anspruch und Rechtfertigung. Eine Theorie des rechtlichen Denkens im Anschluss an die Phnomenologie Edmund Husserls (2009), and Einfhrung in die Rechtsphnomenologie. Eine historisch-systematische Darstellung (2010), as well as co-editor of Das Fremde im Selbst. Transformationen der Phnomenologie: Intersubjektivitt, Alteritt, Politik (2010), and Urteil und Fehlurteil (2011). Her most recent book Phenomenology of Plurality. Hannah Arend on Political Intersubjectivity is being published in Routledge (2017).
Tucker McKinney is visiting assistant professor of philosophy at the College of William and Mary. His research interests include early Heidegger, action theory and moral psychology. He is the author of Objectivity and Reflection in Heideggers Theory of Intentionality ( Journal of the American Philosophical Association , 2016) and As One Does: Understanding Heideggers Account of Das Man ( European Journal of Philosophy , forthcoming).
James Mensch is professor of philosophy at Charles University in Prague. His main areas of research are phenomenology and its contemporary social and political applications. He has lectured widely both in America and Europe and serves on a number of editorial and research boards. He is the author of twelve books, the most recent being Patokas Asubjective Phenomenology: Toward a New Concept of Human (Knigshausen & Neumann, 2016), Levinas Existential Analytic, A Commentary on Totality and Infinity , Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2015 and Husserls Account of our Consciousness of Time (Marquette University Press, 2010).
Thomas Nenon (PhD Albert-Ludwigs-Universitt, Freiburg, 1983) is professor of philosophy and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Memphis. He worked as an editor at the Husserl-Archives and instructor at the University of Freiburg before coming to the University of Memphis in 1985. His teaching and research interests include Husserl, Heidegger, Kant and German Idealism, hermeneutics and the philosophy of the social sciences. He has published numerous articles in those areas as well as the book Objektivitt und endliche Erkenntnis (Freiburg: Alber, 1986). He is co-editor (along with Hans Rainer Sepp) of Volumes XXV and XXVII of the Husserliana , as well as editor of several collections of essays on various topics in phenomenology. He has served as review editor for Husserl Studies , as a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) and as director of the Center for the Humanities at the University of Memphis and is president of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology (CARP).
Mark Okrent is professor of philosophy at Bates College. He is the author of Heideggers Pragmatism: Understanding, Being, and The Critique of Metaphysics (1988) and Rational Animals: The Teleological Roots of Intentionality (2007). Among his recent published articles are Responsiveness to Norms, Heideggers Pragmatism Redux and Heidegger, Davidson, and Truth. Professor Okrent is currently completing a new book, Nature and Normativity: Biology, Teleology, and Meaning .
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