Lectures on Phenomenology and the Historicity of Meaning in Exact and Phenomenological Science
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Burt C. Hopkins
(Chair of Department of Philosophy at Seattle University, Founding Co-Editor
for New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Permanent
Secretary of The International Circle of Husserl Scholars, 2011 Ballard Book
Prize Winner)
Moderator: Prof. FANG Xianghong
Working Language: English
Sessions Plan:
14:00-17:00, Sept. 2 (Monday), Room 218, Philosophy Building, Xianlin Campus
First Session: Jacob Klein: The Forgotten Man of 20th Century Phenomenology
“The Philosophical Achievement of Jacob Klein”
“Jacob Klein on the Myth of Learning”
14:00-17:00, Sept. 3 (Tuesday), Room 218, Philosophy Building, Xianlin Campus
Second Session: The Historicity of the Analytic Method and that which it
Presupposes: the Concept of Number
“Analyticity, Historicity, and the A Priori Unbridgeablility of the Analytic-
Continental Divide”
“Philosophical Problems in the Foundation of Arithmetic: Ancient and Modern”
14:00-17:00, Sept. 4 (Wednesdy), Room 218, Philosophy Building, Xianlin Campus
Third Session: Husserl’s Critique of Psychologism Considered within the
Context of Genuine Platonism
“The Source of Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics Revisited:
Aristotle’s Critique of Eidetic Numbers”
“Husserl’s Psychologism, and Critique of Psychologism, Revisited”
14:00-17:00, Sept. 5 (Thursday), Room 218, Philosophy Building, Xianlin Campus
Fourth Session: Historical and Methodological Limits of Heidegger’s Critique
of Transcendental Phenomenology
“The Methodological Presupposition of Heidegger’s Ontico-ontological
Critique of Intentionality: Plato’s Socratic Seeing of the Eide”
“The Mereological Presupposition of Heidegger’s Fundamental Ontology: That
Being as a Whole has a Meaning Overall”
14:00-17:00, Sept. 6 (Friday), Room 218, Philosophy Building, Xianlin Campus
Fifth Session: Historical and Methodological Limits of Derrida’s Critique and
Deconstruction of Transcendental Phenomenology
“The Presupposition behind Derrida’s Proto-deconstructive Critique of
Intentional Historicity: the Conflation of Intra-subjective and Inter-
subjective Idealities”
“The Presupposition behind Derrida’s Deconstruction of Phenomenology: the
Subordination of Being to Speech”
14:00-17:00, Sept. 7 (Saturday), Room 218, Philosophy Building, Xianlin Campus
Sixth Session: Unity and Multiplicity in Ancient Philosophy and Husserlian
Phenomenology
“Unity, Multiplicity, Appearance in Plato, Aristotle, and Husserl”
“Beyond Being: Phenomenal Structure and Unity in the Constitution of
Phenomenological Manifolds”