- Charles Howard Chandler Professor of Philosophy,
- Emory University, USA
Born in 1940, Professor David Carr received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Yale University , U.S.A. , completing his doctorate there in 1966. Among his teachers were George Schrader, Wilfred Sellars and Richard Bernstein. He also interrupted his studies at Yale to spend a year each at the Universities of Heidelberg and Paris, where Hans-Georg Gadamer, Karl Löwith, Dieter Henrich and Paul Ricoeur were among his teachers. After completing his degrees he taught at Yale for ten years. He then taught at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Ottawa, Canada, before moving in 1991 to his current position at Emory University , Atlanta, Georgia . He was chair of the Department of Philosophy for six years and was named Charles Howard Candler Professor of Philosophy in 2000.
Professor Carr has held visiting positions once at Washington University , St. Louis , and twice at the New School for Social Research, New York City , where he was Werner Marx Visiting Professor in 1990. He has also taught at the University of Wuppertal and held a research position at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld . He has been invited to lecture across the U.S. A. and Canada , a s well as in Germany , France , Italy , Sweden , Finland , Japan and China . He is a former Executive Secretary and Board Member of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, U.S.A. , and serves on the editorial boards of the philosophical series published by Indiana University Press and Northwestern University Press, and by Springer Verlag.
Among Professor Carr’s publications are four books, a number of edited or co-edited collections, and the English translation of the major work of the late Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. He is also the author of numerous articles published in English, German and French. A collection of his essays has been translated into Japanese, and one of his essays into Chinese.
Professor Carr’s research, publication and teaching have been devoted to various aspects of Husserl’s philosophy and to phenomenology un general . He is particularly attentive to the philosophy of history. The latter inquiry has led him to explore the nature of narrative, and has thus intersected with literary theory, Hegel’s phenomenology, and analytic theories of history. Another of his research interests falls on the nature of transcendental philosophy, both in Husserl and in Kant.
Professor Carr’s association with the Chinese University of Hong Kong dates back to the first international conference on phenomenology organized by the Department of Philosophy in 1996 and a second international conference in 2000. As the fifth laureate of the Tang Chun-I Visiting Professorship, Professor Carr will offer a public lecture entitled “Historical Experience, Historical Being,” a four-week graduate seminar on “Phenomenology and History,” and a staff seminar in the Department of Philosophy on “History in Husserl’s Crisis : Phenomenology and the ‘Idea of Europe’.”
Historical Experience, Historical Being
