Burt C. Hopkins (born February 7, 1954) is an American philosopher. He is an Associate Member of the University of Lille, Permanent Faculty member of the Summer School of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, former Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Seattle University[1] (1989-2016) and Permanent Secretary of the Husserl Circle.[2]
Burt C. Hopkins | |
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| Born | February 7, 1954 |
| Nationality | American |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy Phenomenology |
| Institutions | University of Lille Seattle University Ca' Foscari University of Venice |
Main interests | Phenomenology Philosophy of Mathematics Edmund Husserl Jacob Klein Plato |
He has been visiting professor at the University of Nanjing, China (2013), visiting professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and the Koyré Center, Paris, France (2015–17), Senior Fellow at the Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, he Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2018), visiting professor at École normale supérieure (Paris) and Paris Sciences et Lettres University (2021) and most recently Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences (2019-2020, 2022).
Biography
editHopkins earned his BA in philosophy from Allegheny College in Pennsylvania under the direction of James F. Sheridan, his MA in philosophy at Ohio University under the direction of Algis Mickūnas, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from DePaul University in Chicago under the direction of Parvis Emad. He is founding co-editor (with Steven Crowell) of The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy.[3]
Academic work
editHopkins is best known for his work on Husserl and Jacob Klein, although he has also published on Plato,[4][5] Kant,[6] Heidegger,[7] and Derrida.[8]
His 1993 book Intentionality in Husserl and Heidegger: The Problem of the Original Method and Phenomenon of Phenomenology[9] defends the philosophical superiority of Husserl's transcendental phenomenological method over Heidegger's hermeneutical refashioning of phenomenology's method. Hopkins's general argument is that Heidegger's hermeneutical critique of Husserl's reflective phenomenology of consciousness presupposes the structures of Husserl's phenomenology that are the targets of that critique. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 225 libraries.[10]
His 2010 book The Philosophy of Husserl [11] presents a defense of Husserl's transcendental phenomenology from the critiques of Heidegger and Derrida. It does so by challenging their common claim that Husserl's is historically determined by the limits of Greek ontology and metaphysics. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 2,758 libraries.[10]
His 2011 book, The Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics: Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein,[12] compares Klein's largely overlooked Greek Mathematics and the Origin of Algebra (1934 and 1936) with Husserl's concern to provide a philosophical foundation for the formalization of logic and mathematics. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 1,786 libraries.[10]
Books
edit- The Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics: Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011)
- The Philosophy of Husserl (Chesam, UK: Acumen Press and Montreal: McGill University Press, 2010)
- Intentionality in Husserl and Heidegger: The Problem of the Original Method and Phenomenon of Phenomenology (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993)
References
edit- ^ "Burt Hopkins, PhD - College of Arts and Sciences - Seattle University". Archived from the original on 2014-09-01. Retrieved 2014-02-08. Seattle University
- ^ Husserl Circle.
- ^ "The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy".
- ^ Hopkins, Burt C. (2011). "The Unwritten Teachings in Plato's Symposium". Epoché. 15 (2): 279–298. doi:10.5840/epoche201015229.
- ^ Hopkins, Burt C. (2019). "Dividing Madness and the Appearances of Eros in the Phaedrus" (PDF). Kronos Philosophical Journal. 8: 72–83. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4625025.
- ^ "Manifold, Intuition, and Synthesis in Kant and Husserl".
- ^ "Intentionality in Husserl and Heidegger : an interpretative appraisal".
- ^ Hopkins, Burt C. (2004). "Derrida and Husserl: The end of a controversy". International Journal of Philosophical Studies. 12 (2): 197–204.
- ^ Springer Publishing. Contributions to Phenomenology. Springer. 1993. ISBN 9780792320746.
- ^ a b c "Hopkins, Burt C. [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org.
- ^ "The Philosophy of Husserl". McGill-Queens University Press.
- ^ "The Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics". Indiana University Press.