Location for in-person meetings: Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley.
Online access information is emailed a week in advance. The webinars are on Fridays, 10-12 noon Pacific Time.
Active SOPHERE membership is required for attendance – for application information follow the link
Questions: olouchakova@gmail.com
Readings and Schedule for the Winter-Spring 2020
Readings and Schedule for the Winter 2018-Spring 2019
Husserl, E. The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy. Translation and Introduction by D. Carr. Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy. Evanston, Il: Northwestern University Press, 1970.
Nov. 30 – Introduction and Part I
Dec. 28: Part II, up to §15 (including §15).
January 25: Part II, up to § 36
February 15: Part III, up to § 49
March 8: Part III, up to § 59
March 29: Part III, up to § 63
April 26: Part III, up to the end
May 24: Part III, up to the end + 30 pages into Appendici
Readings and Schedule for the Fall 2018
Edmund Husserl. Cartesian Meditations (D. Cairns, trans.). Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer, 1993 (or earlier editions).
Sept 7 – CM, Ch.5
Lecture on CM, ch.5 , Peter Costello (Providence College) – Sept 28, 9-11 am PT
Readings and Schedule for the Spring – Fall 2018
Edmund Husserl. Cartesian Meditations (D. Cairns, trans.). Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer, 1993 (or earlier editions).
March 30 – CM, Ch.1
April 2o – CM, Ch.2
Mid May , Date TBA – Carla Canullo, University of Macerata, seminar on Michel Henry
May 25 – CM, Ch.3
June 22 – CM, Ch. 4 Seminar leader Professor Jim Nelson, University of Valparaiso
July-August Summer break
September 28 – CM, Ch.5 Seminar leader Professor Peter Costello, Providence College
There can be additional dates dependent on the needs of discussion
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Past Seminars
Readings and Schedule for Fall 2017
Zahavi. D. 2002. Husserl’s Phenomenology. Stanford: Stanford University Press
supplemented by
Sokolowski, R. 1999. Introduction to Phenomenology, Cambridge University Press.
The dates for the Fall are Oct 13 ( Zahavi ch.1 and 2), Nov 10 (ch.1. and 2), Dec 1 (ch. 3). There will be talks scheduled in between these dates.
Readings and Schedule for Summer 2017
Continued June 9, June 16, Fridays, 10-12 am PDT. Access to reading group is now available to members, apply at membership@sophere.org
Taipale, Joona. Phenomenology and Embodiment : Husserl and the Constitution of Subjectivity. Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2014.
Readings for Spring 2017
Taipale, Joona. Phenomenology and Embodiment : Husserl and the Constitution of Subjectivity. Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2014.
Flyer available here
Time: Fridays, 10 am-12 pm Pacific Time (with an exclusion of special lecture by Taipale which will be on Thursday, May 4, 9-11 PDT),
Location: Jesuit School of Theology at the Santa Clara University, Berkeley, and online, email for more information to info@sophere.org
February 17 Reading Group
March 10 Reading Group (Jana Trajtelova, University of Trnava, Slovakia, will be facilitating)
April 7 Special lecture Peter Costello (Providence College, USA)
Givenness and Explication: Phenomenology As Being-Towards the Margins
Key Biblical texts in light of reading of Husserl
April 21 Sam Mickey (USF, USA), special lecture
Living the Epoché: A Phenomenological Realism of Religious Experience
April 28 Reading Group
May 4 (Notice, this is Thursday, special lecture. Time will be 9-11 am PDT) Special lecture: Joona Taipale (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) the author of Phenomenology and Embodiment.
May 12 Special lecture: Jingjing Li (McGill University, Canada) Ālambana-pratyaya and the Question of Other Minds in Later Chinese Yogācāra
On the theory of other minds and compassion in Yogacara Buddhism. For Chinese Yogacarins like Xuanzang and Kuiji, we have a direct perception of others mind. This perception will contribute to the wisdom of emptiness and evoke the non-egoistic compassion in us.