Renewal: Essays on Early Phenomenological Ethics

Dermot Moran (Boston College) is the Inaugural Holder of the Joseph Chair in Catholic Philosophy, Boston College. He was previously Professor of Philosophy (Logic & Metaphysics) at University College Dublin. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and Institut International de Philosophie (IIP). Publications include: Introduction to Phenomenology (2000), Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology (2005), Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (2012) and, co-authored with Joseph Cohen, Husserl Dictionary (2012). Edited works include: Husserl’s Logical Investigations, 2 vols. (Routledge, 2001), The Shorter Logical Investigations, The Phenomenology Reader, co-edited with Tim Mooney (Routledge, 2002), Phenomenology. Critical Concepts in Philosophy, 5 Volumes, co-edited with Lester E. Embree (Routledge, 2004), The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy (Routledge, 2008); The Phenomenology of Embodied Subjectivity (Springer 2014) co-edited with Rasmus Thybo Jensen; Empathy, Sociality, and Personhood. Essays on Edith Stein's Phenomenological Investigations, co-edited with Elisa Magrì (Springer, 2017); Conscious Thinking and Cognitive Phenomenology, co-edited with Marta Jorba (Routledge, 2018); and, with Anya Daly, Fred Cummins, James Jardine, Perception and the Inhuman Gaze. Perspectives from Philosophy, Phenomenology, and the Sciences (Routledge, 2020). His research areas include intentionality, consciousness, selfhood, embodiment, empathy, sociality and the life-world.Dr. Alexander Montes (University of Rochester) is a staff scientist at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Dr. Montes received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston College. Dr. Montes’ research focuses on early phenomenology (esp. Dietrich von Hildebrand), personalism, virtue ethics, clinical research ethics, data ethics, and the ethics of emerging technologies. Dr Montes has taught philosophy at Boston College and bioethics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He has published numerous articles on Hildebrand, as well as an article on the ethics of informed consent from a virtue ethics perspective in The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.

• Chapter 1 Technology Integrated Disability Rehabilitation: A Modern Paradigm Shift.- Chapter  1 Editors’ Introduction- Chapter  2 Persons as Values and Creators of Value: Husserl, Scheler, Stein (and Weil)- Chapter  3 Feeling the Good – And Doing It. Husserl’s Axiological Ethics- Chapter  4 The Appearance of Inquiry in Edmund Husserl’s Ethics- Chapter  5 Kant’s Imperfect Duty and Husserl’s Value- Chapter  6 The Ethical Implications of Will and Attention in Husserl- Chapter  7 Practicing the Epoché: Transforming Social Justice on the U.S. Mexico Border- Chapter  8 Phenomenology of Time and Exhaustion in Early Motherhood- Chapter  9 Scheler’s Reconciliation of Morality and Emotions- Chapter  10 This Love Between This Self and This Other: Max Scheler and the Ethical Crisis of the Twentieth Century- Chapter  11 “Anthroponauts Lost at Sea” or The Necessity of Values in our Personal Life- Chapter  12 Gateways to the Possibility of Ethical Life: Hedwig Conrad-Martius' Path- Chapter  13 The Hidden Vision of an Ethics in the Act of Empathy. And why Stein did not realize the Alternativity of Christian Ethics in Her Later Writings- Chapter  14 The Complexity of Human Being and Its Ethical Dimension According to Edith Stein- Chapter  15 On Forming Members of the Human Community: Edith Stein and the Ethics of Education- Chapter  16 Empathy vs. Alienation: On the Phenomenological Constitution and Erasure of Borders with Edith Stein- Chapter  17 Phenomenology and Personalism in the Ethics of Dietrich von Hildebrand- Chapter  18 Reverence in Nature: Sketching a Hildebrandian Environmental Ethic.