Disciplinarity in Phenomenological Perspective

Abstract

This essay starts by outlining what the author considers to be the three general properties of the phenomenological approach. This approach is then taken to the question of what an academic discipline is and how one becomes a member of a discipline, with some positive and negative aspects that can develop considered. Demonstrating how phenomenological questions can be asked and answered, this approach invites attempts to confirm, correct and extend the account through more reflective analysis.

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Lester Embree

Professor Lester Embree currently holds the position of William F. Dietrich Eminent Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University in the USA. He completed his doctoral studies in philosophy at the New School for Social Research (New York) in 1972 under Aron Gurwitsch. He also studied with Dorion Cairns, and is currently leading the teams editing the multivolume collected works of these leaders of American phenomenology.

Professor Embree has produced over 200 publications in the areas of modern philosophy, the theory of science, and constitutive phenomenology, including three books: Reflective Analysis (2006 in English; also in Castilian, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Romanian and Russian, with translations into Czech, French, German, Korean and Portuguese in various stages), Fenomenologia Continuada (2007) and Environment, Technology, and Justification (2009). Currently he is in the process of completing a text on Alfred Schütz’s theory of the cultural sciences. He has also edited, translated and co-edited several dozen collective volumes, and served as General Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Phenomenology (1997).

Before becoming William F. Dietrich Eminent Scholar at Florida Atlantic University in 1990, Professor Embree taught at Northern Illinois and Duquesne Universities. President of the Centre for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Inc. for 20 years, he also precipitated the founding of the Organization of Phenomenological Organizations and the Newsletter of Phenomenology.

Under the auspices of Zeta Books, Lester Embree is co-editor of the series Post Scriptum-OPO and is currently developing the multilingual series, Phenomenology Workshop Texts.

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