Prof. Thomas Nenon

PROF. THOMAS NENON is Professor of Philosophy and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Programs at the University of Memphis. He received his PhD from the University of Freiburg in Germany. He worked as an editor at the Husserl-Archives and instructor at the University of Freiburg before coming to 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. His publications include Objectivitaet und endliche Erkenntnis, a study of Kant's theory of truth; critical editions of Husserl's works in Volumes XXV and XXVII of the Husserliana; articles on Kant, Dilthey, Husserl, Gadamer, Weber, and Heidegger and on translation and literary interpretation; and translations of books on Schelling and Heidegger into English and a book on analytic philosophy into German.

He has served as review editor for Husserl Studies, a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, President of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, and Director of the Center for the Humanities, at the University of Memphis. His current research interests include Husserl's theories of personhood and subjectivity and Kant and Hegel's practical philosophy.

Prof. Steven Crowell

PROF. STEVEN CROWELL is Joseph and Joanna Nazro Mullen Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Rice University in Houston, Texas (USA). Dr Crowell graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied phenomenology with Maurice Natanson and Albert Hofstadter. He then took a Masters degree in philosophy at Northern Illinois University, where he studied with Theodore Kisiel and Michael Gelven. In 1981 he received his PhD from Yale University, writing a dissertation on Lask, Husserl, and Heidegger under the direction of Karsten Harries. While at Yale Dr Crowell received a DAAD Fellowship for a year-long research stay at the University of Freiburg, where he attended seminars by Werner Marx and Wilhelm Friedrich von Herrmann.

His first teaching position was at Fordham University (New York), but in 1983 he moved to Rice and has taught there continuously except for one year when he was Wexler Visiting Professor at Bryn Mawr University (Philadelphia). Dr. Crowell’s interests lie in the broad area of European thought since Kant, and he has published more than eighty articles on Kant, Nietzsche, the neo-Kantians, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Derrida, Levinas, Habermas and many others. He specializes in the phenomenological tradition, above all the work of Husserl and Heidegger. His book, Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning: Paths Toward Transcendental Phenomenology was published by Northwestern University Press in 2001, and he has recently edited a volume with Jeff Malpas entitled Transcendental Heidegger (Stanford University Press, 2007). He is currently working on a project entitled “Heidegger and the Claims of Reason,” for which, in 2006-07, he was awarded a grant from the American Council for Learned Societies. For many years Dr. Crowell was Editor of the Series in Continental Thought (Ohio University Press), and he serves on several editorial boards, including Continental Philosophy Review, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, and the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. With Burt Hopkins he is a founding editor of The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, and in January he will become co-editor of Husserl Studies. For six years Dr. Crowell served on the Executive Committee and as Executive Co-Director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), and is a founding member of the International Society for Phenomenological Studies. He has delivered philosophical lectures at universities and conferences in many countries, including Germany, Ireland, Great Britain, Denmark, Czech Republic, Peru, Chile, Korea, Japan, Peoples Republic of China, and Hong Kong. When he is not working and teaching philosophy you can find him surfing or playing golf.