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Network for Phenomenological Research | NfPR

The Network for Phenomenological Research (NfPR) aims at developing and promoting dialogues and inquiries inspired by a unique period in philosophy. It started in Austria with the works of Bernard Bolzano, developed further via Franz Brentano and his school, and extends to the field of phenomenology – particularly in the form practiced by Edmund Husserl and by the members of the Munich and Göttingen Circles. Those philosophers developed fecund descriptions of a wealth of phenomena, supported by careful argumentation, conceptual analysis, and attention to empirical evidence. Importantly, many of their crucial contributions to philosophy emerged as the result of a collaborative process of scientific and interdisciplinary exchange among peers.

The group of researchers involved in the NfPR are committed to historically mining those philosophers’ insights, systematically evaluating them, and reactivating them in contemporary debates – in a manner consistent with the epistemic virtues of the intellectual tradition from which they are drawn. Among other activities, the NfPR holds a biennial conference and a yearly online lecture series, ‘Monthly Phenomenology.’ It is likewise engaged with initiating and supporting philosophical collaboration and dissemination related to its scope, aims, and rationale. The NfPR was formed in 2017, with its first conference being held in Munich on the occasion of Adolf Reinach’s Centennial.

The NfPR is chiefly organised by Guillaume Fréchette, Marta Jorba, Alessandro Salice, Hamid Taieb, Genki Uemura, Basil Vassilicos, and Íngrid Vendrell Ferran. If you share our interests and would like to collaborate with the NfPR, please get in touch.

Website: https://netw-phenom-research.wixsite.com/nfpr
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