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Phenomenology
An Introduction
Stephan Käufer and Anthony Chemero
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Title: Phenomenology : an introduction / Stephan Käufer and Anthony Chemero.
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Acknowledgments
We have been fortunate to study and discuss this material with many teachers and colleagues who have shaped our understanding of phenomenology. In particular we wish to thank Bert Dreyfus, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Bill Mace, Mike Turvey, and Fred Owens for teaching us much of the material in this book. We are also grateful to Mike Anderson, Chris Baber, Ed Baggs, Louise Barrett, Abeba Birhane, Bill Blattner, Taylor Carman, Dave Cerbone, Amanda Corris, Steve Croker, Steve Crowell, Elena Cuffari, Fred Cummins, Rick Dale, Hanne De Jaegher, Ola Derra, Ezequiel Di Paolo, Dobri Dotov, Catarina Dutilh-Novaes, Tom Froese, Shaun Gallagher, Melina Gastelum, Beatrice Han-Pile, Harry Heft, Manuel Heras-Escribano, Dan Hutto, Jenann Ismael, Mark James, Scott Jordan, Chris Kello, Sean Kelly, David Kirsh, Julian Kiverstein, Jonathan Knowles, Tomasz Komendzinski, Mariusz Kozak, Miriam Kyselo, Wayne Martin, Samantha Matherne, Teenie Matlock, Jakub Matyja, Marek McGann, Jonathan McKinney, Richard Menary, Marcin Miłkowski, Ronny Myhre, Erik Myin, Lin Nie, Mark Okrent, Jacek Olender, Kevin O’Regan, Isabelle Peschard, Marek Pokropski, Vicente Raja, Mike Richardson, Erik Rietveld, Etienne Roesch, Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, Joe Rouse, Gui Sanches de Oliveira, Miguel Segundo Ortin, Charles Siewert, Michael Silberstein, Paula Silva, Michael Spivey, Pierre Steiner, John Sutton, Iain Thompson, Bas van Fraassen, Witold Wachowski, Jeff Wagman, Ashley Walton, Mike Wheeler, Rob Withagen, Mark Wrathall, Jeff Yoshimi, Julian Young, and Corinne Zimmerman.
We taught seminars on this material at Franklin & Marshall College, Carleton College, and at the University of Cincinnati. We are grateful to students in those seminars, and to Jenefer Robinson, for helping us to present the material more clearly.
We are grateful to Pascal Porcheron and the editorial team at Polity Press for all of their assistance and to Fiona Sewell for careful and thoughtful copyediting. Thanks also to Gui Sanches de Oliveira and Taraneh Wilkinson for their help with the page proofs and index.
Large portions of the first edition of this book were written during research leaves from Franklin & Marshall College and the University of Cincinnati. We are grateful to these institutions for their support.
Most of all, we are grateful for the love and support of our families.
Introduction
Phenomenology is a loosely grouped philosophical tradition that began with Edmund Husserl in the 1890s and is still practiced today, though some of its current instantiations no longer use the name. The tradition is old enough to have a history, and it includes claims that seem odd, quaint, or outdated. And yet it is recent enough that even the work of its founders is alive with ideas
