Thomas Seebohm on the Foundations of the Sciences

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

• Chapter 1.Seebohm’s Hermeneutics (Robert Dostal).- Chapter 2. The Tasks and Contexts of Understanding in Dilthey and Seebohm (Rudolf Makkreel).- Chapter 3. Phenomenological Reduction and Methodological Abstraction (Roberto Walton).- Chapter 4. The First Specific Abstractive Reduction in Seebohm’s Theory of Science (Lester Embree).- Chapter 5. Mathesis and Lifeworld: Some Remarks on Thomas Seebohm’s History as a Science and the System of the Sciences (James Dodd).- Chapter 6. The Inadequacy of Husserlian Formal Mereology for the Regional Ontology of Chemical Wholes (Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino).- Chapter 7. Science, Intentionality, Control, and the Strata of Experience (Harry Reeder).- Chapter 8. On Thomas Seebohm’s History as a Science and the System of the Sciences (David Carr).- Chapter 9. Seebohm und Husserl on the Humanities (Thomas Nenon).- Chapter 10. History, the Sciences, and Disinterested Observers: A Dialogue between Alfred Schutz and Thomas Seebohm(Michael Barber).- Chapter 11. From the Epistemology of Physics to the Phenomenology of Nature: Some Reflections in the Wake of Seebohm’s Theses (Pedro Alves).- Chapter 12. The paradox of subjectivity and the Idea of Ultimate Grounding in Husserl and Heidegger," in Phenomenology and Indian Philosophy, ed. Chattopadhyaya, D.P. et. al.  (SUNY Press 1992) 153-168.- chapter 13. Fichte's and Husserl's Critique of Kant's Transcendental Deduction.- Chapter 14. Husserls on the Human Sciences in Ideen II.- Chapter 15. "Possible Worlds," in Phenomenology East and West, ed. FM Kirkland & DP Chattopadhyaya.