Steven Galt Crowell Joseph and Joanna Nazro Mullen Professor of Philosophy Chair of the Department Professor of German Studies Houston, Texas 77005-1892 Department: 713-348-4994 Office: 713-348-2719 Fax: 713-348-5847 crowell@rice.edu

My main field of interest is twentieth century European philosophy, especially phenomenology (the philosophy of Edmund Husserl) and its development in Heidegger, existentialism (Sartre, Merelau-Ponty, Levinas), hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur) and post-structuralism (Derrida, Lyotard). My systematic interests lie in metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, and the philosophy of history. I also do research in the 18th and 19th century background to contemporary European thought: Kant, German Idealism, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and the German neo-Kantians. My current research centers on transcendental philosophy. Exploring the systematic relation between the philosophies of Husserl and Heidegger, I want to show - contrary to contemporary pragmatism and naturalism - that philosophy is distinct from the empirical sciences both in its method and in its subject-matter. An offshoot of this project is an interest in the interface between philosophical, artistic, and historical modes of representation.
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Education: PhD (1981) Yale University MA (1976) Northern Illinois University AB (1974) University of California, Santa Cruz Teaching Positions: Present: Rice University (Professor) 1997-98: Wexler Visiting Professor, Bryn Mawr College 1988-97: Rice University (Associate Professor) 1983-88: Rice University (Assistant Professor) 1982-83: Fordham University (Assistant Professor) 1980-82: Yale University (Instructor) Professional Positions and Affiliations Executive Co-Director, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (2001-04) Editor, Series in Continental Thought, Ohio University Press Co-Editor, New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy Editorial Board, Contributions to Phenomenology, Kluwer Academic Publishers Board of Directors, Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Inc. Board of Directors, Scientia: An Institute for Science and Culture, Rice University Advisor, Research Center for Phenomenology, University of Peking American Philosophical Association North American Nietzsche Society North American Kant Society International Society for Phenomenological Studies American Society for Aesthetics Husserl Circle Heidegger Circle Publications: Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning: Paths Toward Transcendental Phenomenology (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2001) The Reach of Reflection: Issues for Phenomenology's Second Century, ed. Steven Crowell, Lester Embree, and Samuel Julian (Electron Press, 2001: www.electronpress.com) The Prism of the Self: Philosophical Essays in Honor of Maurice Natanson, ed. Steven Galt Crowell (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995) Nietzsche "Nietzsche Among the Neo-Kantians; or, The Relation Between Science and Philosophy," Nietzsche, Theory of Knowledge, and Critical Theory, vol 1: Nietzsche and the Sciences, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, ed. Babette Babich (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999), 77-86 "Sport as Spectacle and as Play: Nietzschean Reflections," International Studies in Philosophy XXX/3 (1998), 109-122 "The Cunning of Modernity: Ibáñez-Noé, Heidegger, and Nietzsche," International Studies in Philosophy XXIII/3 (1996), 53-57 "Nietzsche's View of Truth," International Studies in Philosophy XIX/2 (1987), 3-18 Neo-Kantianism "The Early Decades: Positivism, Neo-Kantianism, Dilthey," in The Columbia History of Philosophy, ed. Richard Popkin (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), 667-75 "Neo-Kantianism," in A Companion to Continental Philosophy, ed. Simon Critchley & William R. Schroeder (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998), 185-197   "Emil Lask: Aletheiology as Ontology," Kant-Studien 87 (1996), 69-88 "Lask, Heidegger, and the Homelessness of Logic," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 23/3 (1992), 222-239 "Husserl, Lask, and the Idea of Transcendental Logic," in Husserl and the Phenomenological Tradition, ed. Robert Sokolowski (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1988), 63-85 Husserl and Heidegger “Facticity and Transcendental Philosophy,” From Kant to Davidson: Philosophy and the Idea of the Transcendental, ed. Jeff Malpas (London: Routledge, 2002), 100-121. “The Cartesianism of Phenomenology,” Continental Philosophy Review 35/4 (December 2002), 433-454. “Authentic Thinking and Phenomenological Method,” New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Vol. II (2002), 23-37 "Does the Husserl/Heidegger Feud Rest on a Mistake? An Essay in Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology," Husserl Studies 18 (2002), 123-140 "Subjectivity: Locating the First-Person in Being and Time," Inquiry 44 (2001), 433-54 "Metaphysics, Metontology, and the End of Being and Time" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LX/2 (2000), 307-331 "Phenomenology and the Question of Being: Heidegger" Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Continental Philosophy, ed. Simon Glendinning (Edinburgh University Press, 1999), 283-295 "Question, Reflection, and Philosophical Method in Heidegger's Early Freiburg Lectures," in Phenomenology, Japanese and American, ed. Burt Hopkins (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1998), 201-230 "Philosophy as a Vocation: Heidegger and University Reform in the Early Interwar Years," History of Philosophy Quarterly vol. 14, no. 2 (1997), 255-276 "Ontology and Transcendental Phenomenology Between Husserl and Heidegger," in Husserl in Contemporary Context, ed. Burt Hopkins (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997), 13-36 "The Mythical and the Meaningless: Husserl and the Two Faces of Nature," in Issues in Husserl's Ideas II, ed. Thomas Nenon & Lester Embree (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1996), 80-105 "Heidegger's Phenomenological Decade," Man and World vol. 28, no. 4 (1995), 435-448 "Making Logic Philosophical Again (1912-1916)," in Reading Heidegger from the Start, ed. Theodore Kisiel & John van Buren (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994), 55-72 "Husserl, Heidegger, and Transcendental Philosophy: Another Look at the Encyclopaedia Britannica Article," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research vol. L, no. 3 (1990), 501-518 "(Re)Doing Phenomenology: Experience and Reflection in the Later Heidegger," Krisis 5/6 (1986-87), 34-47 "Meaning and the Ontological Difference," Tulane Studies in Philosophy XXXII (1984), 37-44  Essays in Phenomenology "Is there a Phenomenological Research Program?" Synthese 131 (2002), 419-444 "Kantianism and Phenomenology," Phenomenological Approaches to Moral Philosophy, ed. John Drummond & Lester Embree (Kluwer, 2002), 47-67. "Authentic Historicality," Space, Time, and Culture, ed. David Carr and Chan-Fai Chung (Kluwer: forthcoming) "Patrick Heelan's Innocent Eye," Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh's Eyes, and God: Essays in Honor of Patrick Heelan, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 225, ed. Babette Babich (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002), 239-250 "Gnostic Phenomenology: Eugen Fink and the Critique of Transcendental Reason" New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy I (2001), 257-278 "Neighbors in Death," Research in Phenomenology XXVII (1997), 208-223; reprinted in Philosophy Today vol. 41, no. 1 (1997), 209-218 "Being Truthful," in The Truthful and the Good: Essays in Honor of Robert Sokolowski, ed. John Drummond & James Hart (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1996), 17-37 "Husserl, Derrida, and the Phenomenology of Expression," Philosophy Today vol. 40, no. 1 (Spring 1996), 61-70 "Solipsism (Modalities of the Strange)," in The Prism of the Self, ed. Steven Galt Crowell (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995), 13-29 "Manuel Davenport's 'Poetry, Truth, and Phenomenology'," Southwest Philosophy Review II (1985), 34-37 Philosophy of History and Culture "Who is the Political Actor? An Existential-Phenomenological Approach," in The Phenomenology of the Political, ed. John Thomson & Lester Embree (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000), 11-28 "The Project of Ultimate Grounding and the Appeal to Intersubjectivity in Recent Transcendental Philosophy," International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 7, no. 1 (1999), 31-54 "Spectral History: Narrative, Nostalgia, and the Time of the I," Research in Phenomenology XXIX (1999), 83-104  "There Is No Other: Notes on the Logical Place of a Concept," Paideuma: Mitteilung zur Kulturkunde 44 (1998), 13-29 "Mixed Messages: The Heterogeneity of Historical Discourse," History and Theory vol. 37, no. 2 (1998), 220-244 "Dogmatic Anti-Foundationalism," Semiotica 110-3/4 (1996), 361-382 "Differend Notice: Philosophy as a Genre," L'Esprit Créateur XXXI/1 (1991), 77-89 "Text and Technology," Man and World vol. 23, no. 4 (1990), 419-440 "Dialogue and Text: Re-Marking the Difference," in the Interpretation of Dialogue, ed. Tullio Maranhao (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 338-360 Reviews Christoph Cox, Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Interpretation, International Studies in Philosophy XXXV/2 (2003), 135-36 Donn Welton, The Other Husserl: Horizons of Transcendental Phenomenology, Journal of the History of Philosophy XL/1 (2002), 132-33 Marcus Brainard, Belief and its Neutralization: Husserl's System of Phenomenology in Ideas I. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2002): http://ndpr.icaap.org/ Michael Roth, The Poetics of Resistance, International Studies in Philosophy XXXIII/4 (2001), 138-140 Francois Raffoul, Heidegger and the Subject, Continental Philosophy Review 33/1 (2000), 93-105 Anthony Steinbock, Home and Beyond: Generative Phenomenology After Husserl, Human Studies 21 (1998), 87-95 Christopher Macann, Presence and Coincidence: The Transformation of Transcendental into Ontological Phenomenology, Husserl Studies 10 (1993), 651-58 Hubert L. Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time Division I, The Journal of Philosophy XC/7 (July 1993), 373-377 Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, Der Begriff der Phänomenologie bei Heidegger und Husserl; and Fresco, van Dijk, & Vijgeboom, eds., Heideggers These vom Ende der Philosophie, International Studies in Philosophy XXIV/3 (1992), 141-42 David A. White, Logic and Ontology in Heidegger, International Studies in Philosophy XXII/1 (1990), 146-47 Calvin O. Schrag, Communicative Praxis and the Space of Subjectivity, Canadian Philosophical Reviews VII/8 (1987), 326-28 Merold Westphal, God, Guilt, and Death: An Existential Phenomenology of Religion, The Thomist 51/3 (1987), 345-53 Marvin Farber, The Search for an Alternative, The Humanist 45/1 (1985), 39-40 A. T. Tymieniecka, ed., The Philosophical Reflection of Man in Literature, International Studies in Philosophy XVIII/3 (1986), 107-8 Ernst Tugendhat, Traditional and Analytical Philosophy, International Philosophical Quarterly, XXIV/1 (1984), 95-97 Tom Rockmore, Fichte, Marx, and the German Philosophical Tradition, International Philosophical Quarterly XXIII/3 (1983), 338-40 Translations Otto Pöggeler, "Heidegger's Political Self-Understanding," in The Heidegger Controversy, ed. Richard Wolin (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), 198-244 Selected Presentations “Conscience and Reason,” International Society for Phenomenological Studies (Monterey, CA, July 2003) “Conscience and Reason,” Conference on Heidegger and Transcendental Philosophy (Rice University, April 2003) “Conscience and Reason in Heidegger’s Fundamental Ontology,” Northwestern University (May 2003) “The Cartesianism of Phenomenology,” American Philosophical Association (Philadelphia, PA, December 2002) “Jan Patocka and the Phenomenological Research Program,” Conference on Issues Confronting the Post-European World (Charles University & Academy of Sciences, Prague, November 2002) “Authentic Historicality,” Conference on Contextualizing Heidegger (University of Kentucky, Lexington, November 2002) “Undergoing,” Conference on Nature, Technology, and Life (Seoul National University, Korea, October 2002) “Undergoing,” Inaugural Conference of the Centre for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (Chinese University of Hong Kong, September 2002) "Subjectivity: Locating the First-Person in Sein und Zeit" (Emory University, January 2002) "Authentic Historicality," Symposium paper, APA Eastern Division meeting (December 2002) "Authentic Thinking and Phenomenological Method" (University of Beijing, October 2001) "Subjectivity: Locating the First-Person in Sein und Zeit," (Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2001) "Giorgio Morandi and the Question of the Thing," Keynote Address, Conference on Philosophy and Art (Seattle University, May 2001) "Authentic Historicality," International Conference on Phenomenology (Hong Kong, November 2000) "Facticity," International Society for Phenomenological Studies (Asilomar, CA, July 1999) "Is Art Cognitively Trivial?" Keynote Address, Conference on Art, Literature, and Philosophy (Colby College, April 1999) "Spectral History," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (Denver, CO, October 1998) "Gnostic Phenomenology: Eugen Fink and the Critique of Transcendental Reason," Husserl Circle (Louisville, KY, February 1998) "Is Art Cognitively Trivial?" Yale University (October 1997) "Is Art Cognitively Trivial?" Georgetown University (November 1997) "Metaphysics, Metontology, and the End of Being and Time," Heidegger Conference (State College, PA, May 1997) "Sport as Spectacle and as Play: Nietzschean Reflections," North American Nietzsche Society (Berkeley, CA, March 1997) "The Project of Ultimate Grounding and the Turn to Intersubjectivity in Recent Transcendental Philosophy," Society for Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy (Washington, DC, October 1996) "Who is the Political Actor? An Existential-Phenomenological Approach," Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology (Boca Raton, FL, October 1996) "Hdggr (Sic): On Mark Okrent," Heidegger Conference (Durham, NH, May 1996) "Mixed Messages: The Heterogeneity of Historical Discourse," Conference on History and the Limits of Interpretation (Rice University, March 1996) "Neighbors in Death," Society for Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy (Chicago, IL, October 1995) "There Is No Other: Notes on the Logical Place of a Concept," Conference on the Question of the Other in Anthropology (Rüdesheim, Germany, May 1995) "Being Truthful," Catholic University of America (November 1994) "Solipsism at Santa Cruz," Yale University (November 1994) "University Reform (Heidegger)," Society for Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy (Seattle, WA, September 1994) "Solipsism (Modalities of the Strange)," Husserl Circle (Boca Raton, FL, May 1994) "Husserl, Derrida, and the Phenomenology of Expression," Society for Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy (New Orleans, LA, October 1993) "The Mythical and the Meaningless: Husserl and the Two Faces of Nature," Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology (Boca Raton, FL, May 1993) "The Question of Philosophical Method in Heidegger's Early Freiburg Lectures," Society for Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy (Memphis, TN, October 1991) "The Phenomenology of Expression," Husserl Circle (Seattle, WA, June 1991) "Ontology and Transcendental Phenomenology," Husserl Circle (Seattle, WA, June 1991) "Heidegger and the Homelessness of Logic," Northern Illinois University (October 1988) "Husserl, Heidegger, and Transcendental Philosophy: Another Look at the Encyclopaedia Britannica Article," Society for Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy (Evanston, IL, Oct. 1988) "Dialogue and Text: Re-Marking the Difference," American Anthropological Association (Philadelphia, PA, December 1986) "Text and Technology," Society for Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy (Toronto, Oct. 1986) "Nietzsche's View of Truth," North American Nietzsche Society (Washington, DC, Dec. 1985) Courses Clicking on a hotlink brings up a syllabus for that course, but these will change from year to year. For current courses check News and Notices, or send me a message. Phil 108 The Philosophical Life Phil 203 Thought and Reality Phil 308 Continental Philosophy Phil 309 Aesthetics Phil 317 Ethics and Existence Phil 318 Philosophy in Literature Phil 321 Kant and the Nineteenth Century Phil 508 Seminar in Continental Philosophy Huma 101 Constructing Western Traditions I (foundation course) Huma 102 Constructing Western Traditions II (foundation course) Other News and Notices Works On Line Undergoing Rationalism in History Laura Lark Gallery