Rodney K. B. Parker, PhD

Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists/Department of Philosophy
Universität Paderborn
Warburger Str. 100 | 33098 Paderborn | GERMANY
rodney.parker(at)upb.de; rodney.k.b.parker(at)gmail.com

Main | Research | Teaching | Curriculum vitae

Dissertation

• Husserl’s Transcendental Idealism and the Problem of Solipsism [download]
  Supervisors: Helen Fielding and Antonio Calcagno

 

Areas of Specialization

• Phenomenology & Existentialism (esp. Husserl), 19th and 20th Century Philosophy

Areas of Competence

• History of Philosophy (esp. Berkeley and Kant), Political Philosophy, Feminism, Logic

Recent Publications

• Gerda Walther and the Phenomenological Community. Acta Mexicana de Fenomenología 2 (2017), 45-66. http://actamexicanadefenomenologia.org/Documentos/NumeroDos/4-AMF-Rodney-Parker-Gerda-Walther-and-the-Phenomenological-Community.pdf
• Heinrich Maier. The Sources of Husserl’s ‘Ideas I’, ed. A. Staiti and E. Clarke.Berlin: De Gruyter (2017): 215-216. https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/482220
• Paul F. Linke. The Sources of Husserl’s ‘Ideas I’, ed. A. Staiti and E. Clarke.Berlin: De Gruyter (2017): 369-370.
• The History between Koyré and Husserl. Hypotheses and Perspectives within History and Philosophy of Science. Homage to Alexandre Koyré 1892-1964, ed. Agassi, Drozdova, and Pisano. Dordrecht: Springer (2017, in press). http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319617107
• Theodor Elsenhans. The Sources of Husserl’s ‘Ideas I’, ed. A. Staiti and E. Clarke.Berlin: De Gruyter (2017): 13-15.
• Theodor Ziehen. The Sources of Husserl’s ‘Ideas I’, ed. A. Staiti and E. Clarke.Berlin: De Gruyter (2017): 147-148.
• [Review] Angela Ales Bello, The Sense of Things: Toward a Phenomenological Realism. New York: Springer, 2015. Symposium (Online 11 August 2016): http://www.c-scp.org/2016/08/11/angela-ales-bello-the-sense-of-things
• Editor's Introduction. Resurrecting the Phenomenological Movement (with Dermot Moran). Studia Phaenomenologica Vol. 15 (2015): 11-24. https://doi.org/10.5840/studphaen2015151
  

Select Presentations

• Theodor Celms and the Spectre of Solipsism in Husserl’s Idealism (2017) – Husserl Circle, University of Crete.
• Stein’s Second Conversion. From Realism to Idealism (or something near enough) (2017) – Edith Stein Circle (IASPES), University of Portland, June 2017.
• Real reality? Hedwig Conrad-Martius versus Husserl’s Ideas I (2017) – North American Society for Early Phenomenology, Seattle University.
• Gerda Walther and the Question of Reality (2016) – Natur und Kosmos. Entwürfe der frühen Phänomenologie, Charles University Prague.
• Aristotle, Husserl, and Levinas on First Philosophy (2016) – Aristotle in Phenomenology, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne.
• The Bulldog meets a Terrier – On the confrontation between Sidney Hook and Dorion Cairns (2015) – Pragmatism and Phenomenology, King’s University College.
• Blood, Iron, and Ink. Dietrich Mahnke’s place in the Phenomenological Movement (2014) – The Great War and Phenomenology, Husserl Archives, KU Leuven.
• Husserl's Refutation of (Psychologistic) Idealism (2014) [ abstract ] – Husserl and the Phenomenological Tradition, University of Guelph.
• Intentionality and the Other: Levinas on Phenomenological Idealism and Einfühlung (2013) – Deutsche Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Forschung, Husserl-Archiv der Universität zu Köln.
• Husserl's Early Critics and their Contemporary Counterparts: a Response to Celms and Stumpf (2012) – The Nordic Society for Phenomenology, University of Oslo.
• Husserl's Monadology and its "Metaphysical conclusions" (2012) – The North American Society for Early Phenomenology, Toronto.
• The Promise and Problem of Intersubjectivity in Husserl's Formal and Transcendental Logic (2011) – The Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture, The University of New Brunswick.
• Empathy Theories from Lotze to Husserl (2011) [ abstract ] – The Early Phenomenology: Munich and Göttingen, Franciscan University of Steubenville.
• Berkeley’s Nonsensical Ideas or What I can Remember About Them (2010) – UWO-Trinity Workshop in Honour of the 300th Anniversary of the 'Principles Concerning Human Knowledge', The University of Western Ontario.

 

Translation Projects

• Der phänomenologische Idealismus Husserls [Husserl's Phenomenological Idealism] (1928) - Theodor Celms (in progress)
• Eine Neue Monadologie [A New Monadology] (1917) - Dietrich Mahnke (in progress)

Last revised: 20/09/2017