Advancing Phenomenology

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Philip Blosser is Professor of Philosophy at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Michigan. Born in China and raised in Japan, he is a graduate of Sophia University in Tokyo and with Master's degrees from Westminster Theological Seminary (Religious Studies) Villanova University (Philosophy), and a PhD from Duquesne University (Philosophy). He previously taught at Duquesne University, Lenoir-Rhyne University, and Harlaxton College in England. His publications include numerous articles as well as books, including Japanese and Western Phenomenology (1993), Schelers Critique of Kants Ethics (1995), Of Friendship: Philosophic Selections on a Perennial Concern, co-edited with Marshell Carl Bradley (2nd ed., 2002). At present he is working on a book on the phenomenology of the moral conscience. Thomas Nenon (PhD, University of Freiburg) is Professor of Philosophy and Vice Provost for Assessment, Institutional Research, and Reporting at the University of Memphis. He worked as an editor at the Husserl-Archives and instructor at the University of Freiburg before coming to University of Memphis. His teaching and research interests include Husserl, Heidegger, Kant and German Idealism, Hermeneutics, and the philosophy of the social sciences and has published numerous articles in those areas as well as the book Objektivität und endliche Erkenntnis (Freiburg: Alber, 1986) and as co-editor (along with Hans Rainer Sepp) volumes XXV and XXVII of the Husserliana. He has served as review editor for Husserl Studies, as a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, and as Director of the Center for the Humanities. His current research interests include Husserl's theories of personhood and subjectivity and Kant and Hegel's practical philosophy.

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