The Following video is a continuation of my series on Classical German philosophy and Post-Kantian thought tilted An Introduction to the Life and Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl with Dr. Dermot Moran (Boston College).

In this episode of the Young Idealist we return to German in order to discuss the pivotal founder of Phenomenology Edmund Husserl (1859-1938).

For this special episode on Phenomenology and Edmund Husserl I invited Dr. Dermot Moran is the inaugural holder of the Joseph Chair in Catholic Philosophy at Boston College. He was previously Professor of Philosophy (Metaphysics & Logic) at University College Dublin. Dr. Moran research areas include: medieval Christian philosophy (especially John Scottus Eriugena) and contemporary European philosophy (phenomenology, especially Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty).

Dr. Moran's publications include: 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.

Since Dr. Moran has published quite extensively on Husserl and translated many of his philosophical works I knew he would make this episode extremely special for the viewers.

Dr. Moran helps navigate the viewer through the complex life and phenomenology of Edmund Husserl bringing to life his rich ideas giving Husserl enthusiasts, scholars and students an opening to the horizon of Husserl's world.

Dr. Dermot Moran is the inaugural holder of the Joseph Chair in Catholic Philosophy at Boston College. He was previously Professor of Philosophy (Metaphysics & Logic) at University College Dublin.

He has been Visiting Professor at Yale University, Northwestern University, Rice University, and Connecticut College. He is currently Past President of the International Federation of Philosophical Studies/Fédération Internationale des Sociétés dePhilosophie (FISP) and an elected member of the Institut International de Philosophie (IIP) and of the Royal Irish Academy.

He is Founding Editor of The International Journal of Philosophical Studies (1993) and was Co-Editor (2007-2017) of the book series Contributions to Phenomenology (Springer). His research areas include: medieval Christian philosophy (especially John Scottus Eriugena) and contemporary European philosophy (phenomenology, especially Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty). He was awarded the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities in 2012, and an Honorary Doctoral Degree from the National and Kapodistrian University in Athens in 2015.

He is Honorary Professor at Wuhan University, Nankai University, and Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou. Dermot Moran is the author of 9 monographs (including 2 translations into Spanish and Chinese), 1 co-authored book [also translated into Chinese], 15 edited books, 50 peer-refereed journal articles, more than 120 book chapters and encyclopedia entries, and over 250 invited lecture and conference presentations internationally.

I want to thank Leon Biegel who is a philosophy student at Freiburg University in Germany, for helping me create these questions for the episode.