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April 1, 2026

Hamid Taieb is a Guest Professor for the History of Philosophy at the Free University Berlin in the sommer semester 2026

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February 20, 2026

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Benoit Guilielmo, Exploring the Essence of Bullshit through Early Phenomenology (Kolnai and Hildebrand)

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February 6, 2026

Co-organisation of the workshop Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin and University of Liège

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January 27, 2026

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Meinong and Mally on the Mind-independence of Objects” at the Colloquium on the History of Philosophy and Logic, University of Bochum

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January 16, 2026

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Pascale Roure and Emre Şan, Phenomenology in Turkey

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December 5, 2025

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Maryam Ebrahimi Dinani, Adolf Reinach‘s Theory of Social Acts: Illuminating Debates on Joint and Collective Intentionality

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November 28, 2025

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: James Kinkaid, Husserlian Idealism and the Identity Theory of Truth

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November 8, 2025

Hamid Taieb gives a commentary on a paper from Mark Textor on Franz Brentano’s theory of intentionality at the Issues in Modern Philosophy Conference, New York University

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October 29, 2025

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “The Philosophy of Attention: A Step Back and Return” at the Inbegriff Seminar, University of Geneva

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October 24, 2025

Launch of the new season of the online series of talks “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research; first talk: Francesca Forlè, Embodied Affectivity: A Phenomenological Account of the Connection between Affective Phenomena and Bodily Expressions

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October 1, 2025

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “The Philosophy of Attention: A Step Back and Return” at the Higher Seminar for Philosophy and Appllied Ethics, Linköping University

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October 1, 2025

New team member: Maria Stäcker has joined the research group as a student assistant. Welcome!

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July 13, 2025

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Presencesses and Directednesses: Intentionality beyond Aquinas” at the symposia of the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of Glasgow

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July 2, 2025

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Two Phenomenological Views on Truths about Colours” at the Gastvorträge des philosophischen Seminars, University of Göttingen

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June 23-24, 2025

Hamid Taieb gives talks on colours in early phenomenology in the workshop and lectures series Praktische Philosophie und Phänomenologie, TU Darmstadt

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June 12, 2025

Lina de Boer gives a talk on “Leiblichkeit bei Max Scheler und Edith Stein” at the workshop Max Scheler, la phénoménologie en débats, University Paris-Sorbonne

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May 20, 2025

Lina de Boer gives a talk on “Primary and Secondary Qualities in Scheler’s Erkenntnis und Arbeit” at the workshop Current Research in Early Phenomenology, Husserl Archives Leuven

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May 9, 2025

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Maja Spener, Introspective Methods in Early Experimental Psychology

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April 28, 2025

James Jardine gives a talk on “Envisioning Others Without Pretence: Husserl and Stein on the Irreducibility, Complexity, and Value of Empathy” at the conference Nordic Society for Phenomenology, 2025 Annual Meeting, University of Southern Denmark

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April 25, 2025

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Julio De Rizzo, Husserl on Perception (1894 – 1907)

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April 2, 2025

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Les entités extra-catégoriales dans la tradition austro-allemande” at the workshop Aux frontières du réel, University of Fribourg

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March 28, 2025

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Joan González Guardiola, A Contribution to Phenomenology of Spatial Orientation: A Phenomenological Description of Laterality Phenomena

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March 5, 2025

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Two Phenomenological Views on Truths about Colours” at the History of Philosophy Workshop, Harvard University

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March 1, 2025

New team member: James Jardine has joined the research group as a postdoctoral research fellow. Welcome!

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February 28, 2025

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Adriana Alcaraz-Sánchez, Dreaming while Awake? The Case of Maladaptive Daydreaming

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January 17, 2025

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Ruth Rebecca Tietjen, The Politics of Loneliness

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December 6, 2024

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Giulia Martina, Joint Attention to Flavour

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November 8, 2024

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Michela Summa, “An Affect That Shudders Me”: An Approach to Husserl’s Phenomenology of Joy

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October 4, 2024

Launch of the new season of the online series of talks “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research; first talk: Daniele De Santis, Husserl sub specie metaphysicae

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September 27, 2024

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “The Categories: 19th Century Debates” at the workshop “Aristotle’s Categories“, University Rome 3 (online)

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September 23, 2024

Lina de Boer gives a talk on “Max Schelers Wahrnehmungsbaukasten” at the 26. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, University of Münster

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September 23, 2024

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “The Presentational Function of Sensory Qualities in Early Phenomenology” at the 26. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, University of Münster

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September 19-20, 2024

Co-organisation of the workshop Rediscovering Carl Stumpf, Humboldt University Berlin

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September 11, 2024

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Phenomenology” at the workshop The Historiography of Philosophy in the 20th Century: Problems and Prospects, University of Geneva

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September 2, 2024

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Analytic Phenomenology: Past and Present” at the workshop Recent Work in Analytic Phenomenology, University of Liège

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August 2, 2024

Organisation of the panel “New Research Avenues in Phenomenology”, 25th World Congress of Philosophy, Sapienza University, Roma

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August 2, 2024

Hamid Taieb gives a talk with Alessandro Salice on “Objective Looks and Realist Phenomenology” at the 25th World Congress of Philosophy, Sapienza University, Roma

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June 1, 2024

New team member: Kate Westermaier has joined the research group as a student assistant. Welcome!

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May 31, 2024

Co-organisation of the workshop Phänomenologie und Metaphysik, University of Wuppertal

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May 24, 2024

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Elise Magrì, Habit, Rule-Following, and Value Sensitivity

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May 22, 2024

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Knowledge and Its Objects” at the Book Launch and Preview: ‘Thinking with Assent’ by Maria Rosa Antognazza, King’s College London

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April 5, 2024

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Marie Guillot, Inserted Thought and the Phenomenal Concept of Self

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April 1, 2024

New visiting researcher: Arthur Veenstra (University of Amsterdam) has joined the research group as a visting PhD student. Welcome!

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March 18, 2024

Hamid Taieb gives a guest-lecture on “Analytic Phenomenology: Past and Present” at Uriah Kriegel’s seminar “The Inception of Analytic Philosophy”, Rice University

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March 15, 2024

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Colours in Early Phenomenology” at the Department Colloquium, University of Michigan Ann Arbor

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March 13, 2024

Hamid Taieb gives a guest-lecture on “Relational Intentionality: The Case of Francisco Suárez” at Victor Caston’s seminar “Aristotle’s Philosophy of Mind”, University of Michigan Ann Arbor

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March 8, 2024

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Kengo Miyazono, Dissociations between Sensory and Presentational Phenomenology

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February 27, 2024

Hamid Taieb gives a talk with Alessandro Salice on “Objective Looks and Realist Phenomenology” at the Phenomenological Research Seminars, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen

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February 23, 2024

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Conrad-Martius and Stein on Sensory Qualities” at the workshop Phenomenology and Colour, Husserl Archives Leuven

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February 15, 2024

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Wahrnehmung und Farben (und andere Sinnesqualitäten)” at the workshop Husserl, Scheler, Reinach: Über die phänomenologische Methode, Villa Vigoni

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February 23, 2024

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Takuya Niikawa, Athmosphere and Mood

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January 19, 2024

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: W. Clark Wolf, In Defense of Pure Concepts

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December 15, 2023

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Moritz von Kalckreuth, Connecting Value, Culture and History – The Approach of Nicolai Hartmann

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November 24, 2023

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Bruno Langlet, On the Controversial Status of Meinongian Assumptions

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November 16-17, 2023

Workshop of the research project: The Phenomenology of Secondary Qualities

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October 27, 2023

Launch of the new season of the online series of talks “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research; first talk: Robin Muller, Critical Phenomenology and Phenomenological Critique: Ambiguities in the Legacy of Merleau-Ponty

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September 30, 2023

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “L’intellect agent au tournant du 20ème siècle: le cas de Wilhelm Pöll” at the workshop La noétique d’Aristote (De anima 3.4/5), University of Lausanne

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September 27, 2023

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Avicenne, la gauche aristotélicienne et l’anti-eurocentrisme dans l’historiographie philosophique” at the workshop Avicenne et la réception d’Aristote, University of Fribourg

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September 25, 2023

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Marty on Existence” at the workshop Higher-order Theories of Existence, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

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September 19, 2023

Lina de Boer gives a talk on “Zur Entbehrlichkeit der Selbstberührung für die Leibkonstitution” at the Doktorandenkolloquium zur Phänomenologie, Heidelberg University

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July 14, 2023

Twan Stiekel gives a talk on “Paul F. Linke on Metaphysical Realism” and Hamid Taieb on “Analytic Phenomenology: Past and Present” at the SSHAP conference, Humboldt University Berlin

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June 8, 2023

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Concepts in the School of Brentano, Husserl, and Early Phenomenology” at the workshop A Philosophical History of the Concept, University of Hamburg

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June 1, 2023

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Conrad-Martius and Stein on Secondary Qualities” at the online workshop Phenomenology and Metaphysics, University of Paderborn


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May 3, 2023

Launch of the new reading group of the project, summer semester 2022-2023: Ingarden’s Streit um die Existenz der Welt

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April 21, 2023

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Jonathan Mitchell, The Intentional Horizon of Visual Experience

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April 1, 2023

New visiting researcher: Jaka Makuc (University of Bologna) has joined the research group as a visting PhD student. Welcome!

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March 31, 2023

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Davide Bordini, Self-Representationalism, Intimacy, and Mental Representation

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February 13, 2023

Talk by Michela Summa on “Wie ‘erklärt’ die phänomenologische Psychopathologie? Überlegungen zur exemplarischen Funktion der Beschreibung”, in Hamid Taieb’s seminar Einführung in die Phänomenologie

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February 10, 2023

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Alba Montes Sánchez, Towards a Phenomenology of the Sense of Belonging and the Emotional Impact of Migration

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January 27, 2023

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Relational Intentionality in the History of Philosophy: An Overview” at the workshop “The Structure of Intentionality”, University of Turin

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January 20, 2023

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Ditte Munch-Jurisic, Vagueness in Emotion Perception: Disorientation as the Norm?

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December 9, 2022

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Katja Crone, Personal Identity, Narrativity, and the Self-understanding of Persons

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November 18, 2022

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Walter Hopp, Knowledge and the Foundations of Intentionality

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November 4, 2022

Launch of the new reading group of the project, winter semester 2022-2023, co-organised with Alessandro Salice, University College Cork: Hofmann’s Untersuchungen über den Empfindungsbegriff

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November 1, 2022

New visiting researcher: Sara Borriello (University of Roma “Tor Vergata”) has joined the research group as a visting PhD student. Welcome!

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October 28, 2022

Launch of the new season of the online series of talks “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research; first talk: Philipp Berghofer, Why we Need a Phenomenological Turn in Epistemology

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September 30, 2022

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “L’esse iudicatum chez Pierre Auriol: qu’est-ce que c’est et d’où cela vient-il?” at the conference Peter Auriol’s Thought and Its Legacy, Lumsa University

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September 21, 2022

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “For a Network History of Philosophy” at the conference Der alte und der neue Ueberweg, University of Wuppertal

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September 15, 2022

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “The Early Husserl on Existence” at the GAP.11 congress, Humboldt University Berlin

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August 25, 2022

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “L’ esse iudicatum chez Pierre Auriol” at the 25th Congress of the SIEPM, Aubervilliers

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August 21, 2022

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Der frühe Husserl über Existenz” at the conference Existenz und Quantifikation bei Frege, Vorgängern und Zeitgenössen, University of Göttingen

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June 17, 2022

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Brentanians against Relationalism about Colours” at the conference Intentionale Inexistenz bei Brentano neu interpretiert, University of Salzburg

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June 3, 2022

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Kyle Banick, Constitutive Realism and Internalism about Phenomenology

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June 3, 2022

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Brentanians against Relationalism about Colours” at the conference Relations: Medieval and Austro-German Perspectives, University of Geneva

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May 20, 2022

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Angela Mendelovici, Singular Experiences (With and Without Objects)

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May 3, 2022

Launch of the new reading group of the project, summer semester 2022: Conrad-Martius’s Zur Ontologie und Erscheinungslehre der realen Außenwelt

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April 25, 2022

Workshop of the research project: Longue Durée Intentionality

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April 21-23, 2022

Opening conference of the research project: Secondary Qualities in the Austro-German Tradition and Beyond

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April 1, 2022

New team member: Lina de Boer has joined the research group as a doctoral research fellow. Welcome!

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March 11, 2022

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Hayden Kee, Unsymbolized Thinking? A Reinterpretation Through the Horizonality of
Linguistic Experience


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March 2, 2022

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Do We Think the Same Universal? Some Worries about the Multiplication of Intentional Objects in Scholastic Philosophy” at the Invited Lecture Series, Department of Philosophy, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick

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March 1, 2022

New team member: Twan Stiekel has joined the research group as a doctoral research fellow. Welcome!

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February 25, 2022

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Sanneke de Haan, Self-Illness and Self-Medication Ambiguity in Patients with Recurrent Depressions: Preliminary Results from a Qualitative Study

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February 17, 2022

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Early Phenomenologists on the Non-subjectivity of Colours” at the Research Seminar “Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind”, University College Cork

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February 15, 2022

Talk by Daniele De Santis on recent trends in the historiography of phenomenology, in Hamid Taieb’s seminar Einführung in die Phänomenologie

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January 19, 2022

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Early Phenomenologists on the Non-subjectivity of Colours” at the “Institutskolloquium”, Department of Philosophy, HU Berlin

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January 14, 2022

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Witold Płotka, Blaustein on Husserl’s Theory of Intentionality: Sources, Context and Main Arguments

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December 17, 2021

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Anna Bortolan, Epistemic Emotions and Self-Trust: A Phenomenological Proposal

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December 16, 2021

Hamid Taieb gives a talk on “Early Phenomenologists on the Non-subjectivity of Colours” at the Conférences Philéas, University of Geneva

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December 2-4, 2021

Co-organisation of the conference A Historical Turn: Sources and their Uses in Austro-German Philosophy, University of Geneva

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November 24, 2021

Hamid Taieb gives an online talk on “Early Phenomenologists on the Non-subjectivity of Colours” at the Theoretical Philosophy Research Seminar, University of Gothenburg

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November 12, 2021

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Jean Moritz Müller, Knowing Value and Acknowledging Value

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October 29, 2021

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Anna Ichino, Conspiracy Theories and Make-Believe

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October 22, 2021

Launch of the first reading group of the project, winter semester 2021-2022, co-organised with Alessandro Salice, University College Cork: Husserl’s 6th Logical Investigation

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September 24, 2021

Launch of the new season of the online series of talks “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research; first talk: Elijah Chudnoff, Inferential Seemings

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September 1, 2021

New team member: Alexandra Pop has joined the research group as a student assistant. Welcome!

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August 4, 2021

Job Advertisement: the Research Group “A Sensible World” is advertising two PhD positions at Humboldt University Berlin (start date: March 1, 2022; expected duration: 3 years)

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July 9, 2021

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Matt Bower, Against Inadequacy

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July 8, 2021

Hamid Taieb gives an online talk on “Do We Think the Same Universal? Some Worries about the Multiplication of Intentional Objects in Scholastic Philosophy” at the 6th Rio Colloquium on Logic and Metaphysics in the Later Middle Ages, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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June 25, 2021

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Joel Smith, The Possibility of Communication: Perceptual Demonstratives in the Logical Investigations

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May 7, 2021

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Anna Giustina, An Acquaintance Alternative to Self-Representationalism

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April 12, 2021

Job Advertisement: the Research Group “A Sensible World” is advertising a position of Student Assistant (“studentische Hilfskraft”) at Humboldt University Berlin (start date: September 1, 2021; expected duration: 2 years)

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April 9, 2021

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Marta Jorba, Possibilities for Action in Thought

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February 26, 2021

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Chad Kidd, Sensory and Cognitive Presence to Mind
(postponed to March 12, 2021)

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January 29, 2021

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Carlota Serrahima, Sensory Fields: The Visual and the Bodily

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December 11, 2020

New talk in the online series “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research: Chiara Russo Krauss, Was Mach a Phenomenalist? And How His Pupil Petzoldt Can Help Us Answer This Question

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November 20, 2020

Launch of the series of online talks “Monthly Phenomenology,” organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research; first talk: Samantha Matherne, The Normativity of Color: Perspectives from Edith Landmann-Kalischer and Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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September 3, 2020

Hamid Taieb gives an online talk on “Walther on the Reality of Communities” at the British Society for Phenomenology Annual Conference “Engaged Phenomenology,” University of Exeter

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September 1, 2020

Project launched!

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