The Catholic University of America

Msgr. Robert Sokolowski
Elizabeth Breckenridge Caldwell Professor of Philosophy

Courses in 2009-2010

Fall 2009:

PHIL 561 Functions of Philosophy in Theology
PHIL 876 Hobbes Leviathan

Spring 2010:

PHIL 609 Virtue and Human Action
PHIL 708 Husserl's Logical Investigations

COURSES OFFERED IN RECENT YEARS

Introduction to Phenomenology
Husserl's Logical Investigations
Husserl's Cartesian Meditations
Husserl's Formal and Transcendental Logic
Themes in Phenomenology
Phenomenology and Cognitive Science
Aristotle's Metaphysics
Aristotle's Politics
Plato's Sophist
Hobbes's Leviathan
The Philosophy of Frege
The Agent of Truth

EDUCATION

B.A. (Philosophy), The Catholic University of America, 1956.
M.A. (Philosophy), The Catholic University of America, 1957.
S.T.B. (Theology), The Catholic University of Louvain, 1961.
Ph.D. (Philosophy), The Catholic University of Louvain, 1963.
Ph.D. Dissertation: "The Formation of Husserl's Concept of Constitution."

TEACHING POSITIONS

The Catholic University of America, 1963 to the present. Promoted to Professor in 1969. Appointed the Elisabeth Breckenridge Caldwell Professor of Philosophy in 2001.

Graduate Faculty, The New School for Social Research, Fall and Spring, 1969-1970; Visiting Associate Professor.

University of Texas at Austin, Spring, 1978; Visiting Professor of Philosophy.

Villanova University, Spring, 1983; Visiting Professor of Philosophy.

Yale University, Fall, 1992; Visiting Professor of Philosophy. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOKS

The Formation of Husserl's Concept of Constitution. Phaenomenologica 18. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1964.

Husserlian Meditations. How Words Present Things. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1974. 

Presence and Absence. A Philosophical Investigation of Language and Being. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978. 

The God of Faith and Reason.  Foundations of Christian Theology.  Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1982.  Reprint, with a new preface, Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1995.  Romanian translation, Dumnezeul credintei si al ratiunii.  Translated by Ioana Tataru. Targu-Lapus: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2007.  

Moral Action.  A Phenomenological Study.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.  Romanian translation.  Actiunea morala.  Translated by Stefan Gugura.  Targu-Lapus: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2009.

Pictures, Quotations, and Distinctions.  Fourteen Essays in Phenomenology.  Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992.  

Eucharistic Presence.  A Study in The Theology of Disclosure.  Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1994.  Polish translation, Obecnosc Eucharystyczna.  Studium z Teologii Fenomenologicznej.  Tarnow: Biblos, 1995.  Romanian translation.  Prezenta Eucharistica. Translated by Alex Moldovan.  Targu-Lapus: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2009.    

Introduction to Phenomenology.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.  Italian translation, Introduzione alla Fenomenologia.  Translated by Paola Premoli De Marchi.  Rome: Edizioni Università della Santa Croce, 2002.  Chinese translation, Taiwan: Psygarden Publishing Company, 2004.  Greek translation, Eisagoge ste Phainomenologia.  Translated by Pavlos Kontos.  Patras: University of Patras, 2003.  Portuguese translation, Introdução à Fenomenologia.  Translated by Alfredo de Oliveira Moraes.  San Paulo, Brazil: Edições Loyola, 2004.  Mainland Chinese translation.  Translated by Gao Bingjiang and Zhang Jianhua. Wuhan: Wuhan University Press, 2009; Spanish translation in preparation for Jitanjafora Morelia Editorial. 

Christian Faith and Human Understanding. Studies in the Eucharist, Trinity, and the Human Person. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2006.

Phenomenology of the Human Person. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

BOOK EDITED

Edmund Husserl and the Phenomenological Tradition. (Editor). Studies in Philosophy and in the History of Philosophy, 18. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1988.

ARTICLES

"La philosophie linguistique et la métaphysique." Revue philosophique de Louvain 57 (1959): 575-99.

"De Magistro: The Concept of Teaching according to St. Thomas Aquinas." Studies in Philosophy and The History of Philosophy 1 (1961): 160-93.

"Immanent Constitution in Husserl's Lectures on Time." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 24 (1963B1964): 530-51.

"Husserl's Interpretation of The History of Philosophy." Franciscan Studies 24 (1964): 261-80. 

"The Husserl Archives and The Edition of Husserl's Works." The New Scholasticism 38 (1964): 473-82.

"Edmund Husserl and the Principles of Phenomenology." In Twentieth-Century Thinkers, ed. John K. Ryan, 133-58. New York: Alba House 1965.

"Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy as Linguistic Analysis." Ibid., 175-201. 

"Existential and Phenomenological Thought" (editor). In Reflections on Man, ed. Jesse Mann and Gerald Creche. 550-702. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1966.

"Parts and Wholes in Husserl's Logical Investigations." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 28 (1967B1968): 537-53. Reprinted in Readings on Edmund Husserl's Logical Investigations, ed. J. N. Mohanty, 94-111. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1977. 

"Fiction and Illusion in David Hume's Philosophy." The Modern Schoolman 45 (1968): 189-225. 

"Matter, Elements, and Substance in Aristotle." Journal of The History of Philosophy 8 (1970): 263-88.

"Scientific and Hermeneutic Questions in Aristotle." Philosophy and Rhetoric 4 (1971): 242-61.

"The Structure and Content of Husserl's Logical Investigations." Inquiry 14 (1971): 318-50.

"Husserl's Protreptic." In Life-World and Consciousness. Essays for Aron Gurwitsch, ed. Lester Embree, 55-82. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1972. 

"Logic and Mathematics in Husserl's Formal and Transcendental Logic." In Explorations in phenomenology, ed. David Carr and Edward Casey, 306-27. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973. 

"Identity in Manifolds: A Husserlian Pattern of Thought." Research in Phenomenology 4 (1974): 63-80.

"Truth within Phenomenological Speech." In Phenomenological Perspectives. Essays in Honor of Herbert Spiegelberg, 188-217. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975.

"The Work of Aron Gurwitsch." Research in Phenomenology 5 (1975): 7-10.

"Ontological Possibilities in Phenomenology: The Dyad and The One." Review of Metaphysics 29 (1976): 691-701.

"The Presence of Judgment." Phänomenologische Forschungen 2 (1976): 19-28.

"The Ideal Existence of Judgments." Phänomenologische Forschungen 4 (1977): 86-102.

"Picturing." Review of Metaphysics 31 (1977): 3-28.

"Making Distinctions." Review of Metaphysics 32 (1979): 639-76.

"Exact Science and The World in Which We Live." In Lebenswelt und Wissenschaft in der Philosophie Husserl, ed. Elizabeth Ströker, 92-106. Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1979.

"Two Questions about Philosophy: Whether It Is and What It Is." Proceedings of The American Catholic Philosophical Association 54 (1980): 23-36.

"The Issue of Presence." Journal of Philosophy 77 (1980): 631-43. 

"Knowing Natural Law." Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 43 (1981): 625-41.

"Husserl's Concept of Categorial Intuition." Phenomenology and The Human Sciences, Supplement to Philosophical Topics 12 (1981): 127–41. Reprinted as "Le concept husserlien d'intuition catégoriale," trans. D. Lories. Etudes phénoménologiques 10 (1994): 39-61.

"Timing." Review of Metaphysics 35 (1982): 687-714.

"The Human Possession and Transfer of Information." In Science, Computers, and The Information Onslaught, ed. Donald M. Kerr, Karl R. Braithwaite, Nicholas Metropolis, David H. Sharp, and Gian-Carlo Rota, 15-27. New York: The Academic Press, 1984.

"The Theory of Phenomenological Description." Man and World 16 (1984): 221-32.

"Intentional Analysis and The Noema." Dialectica 38 (1984): 114-29.

"The Beginning Is Not What We Already Know." Introduction to the exhibit catalogue of Joel Fisher, Between Two and Three Dimensions: Drawings and Objects since 1979, Kunstmuseum Luzern, 20 May to 1 July, 1984, p. 5.

"Quotation." Review of Metaphysics 37 (1984): 699-723.

"Measurement." American Philosophical Quarterly 24 (1987): 71-79.

"Exorcising Concepts." Review of Metaphysics 40 (1987): 451-63.


"Acquiring the Philosophical Habit." Theology Today 44 (1987): 319-28.

"Husserl and Frege." Journal of Philosophy 84 (1987): 521-28.

"Moral Thinking."  In Husserl and the Phenomenological Tradition, ed. Robert Sokolowski, 235–48.  Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1988.  An earlier version appeared in Jagiellonian University Reports on Philosophy 11 (1987): 29–37.  Greek translation: “?thik? skeps?.”  Deucalion 17 (1999): 213–28.

"Natural and Artificial Intelligence." Daedalus 117 (1988): 45–64. Reprinted in The Artificial Intelligence Debate. False Starts, Real Foundations, ed. Stephen R. Graubard, 45–64. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1988. Reprinted as "Intelligence naturelle et intelligence artificielle,” trans. Évelyne Clavaud. Le temps de la réflexion 9 (1988): 199-217.

"Grammatik und Denken." Phänomenologische Forschungen 21 (1988): 31-50.

"Syntax, Semantics, and The Problem of the Identity of Mathematical Objects." Co-authored with Gian-Carlo Rota and David Sharp. Philosophy of Science 55 (1988): 376-86.

"Referring." Review of Metaphysics 42 (1988): 27-49.

"Idealization in Newton's Physics." In Newton and the New Direction in Science, ed. George V. Coyne, S.J., Michael Heller, and Joseph Zycinski, 65-71. Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1988.

"Husserl as A Tutor in Philosophy." Journal of The British Society for Phenomenology 19 (1988): 296-310. 

"What is Moral Action?" The New Scholasticism 63 (1989): 18-37.

"The Art and Science of Medicine." In Catholic Perspectives on Medical Morals, ed. Edmund D. Pellegrino, John P. Langan, and John Collins Harvey, 263-75. Philosophy and Medicine, 34. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989.

"Religion and Psychoanalysis. Some Phenomenological Contributions." In Psychoanalysis and Religion, ed. Joseph H. Smith and Susan A. Handelman, 1-17. Psychiatry and the Humanities, 2. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.

"Displacement and Identity in Husserl's Philosophy." In Husserl-Ausgabe und Husserl-Forschung, ed. Samuel Ijsseling, 173-84. Phaenomenologica 115. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990.

"The Question of Being." Review of Metaphysics 43 (1990): 707-16.

"Knowledge and Its Representation in Writing, Computers, and the Brain." In The Brain and Intelligence, Natural and Artificial, ed. Ottavio Barnabei, Alessandro Borromei, and Camillo Orlando, 197-207. Bologna: Edizioni L'inchiostroblu, 1990.

"Creation and Christian Understanding." In God and Creation. An Ecumenical Symposium, ed. David B. Burrell and Bernard McGinn, 179-92. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990.

"Explaining." In Nature and Scientific Method, ed. Daniel O. Dahlstrom, 37-50. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1991.

"The Fiduciary Relationship and The Nature of Professions." In Ethics, Trust, and the Professions, ed. Edmund D. Pellegrino, Robert M. Veatch, and John P. Langan, 23-43. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1991.  Copyright © 1991 by Georgetown University Press.  This material is used by permission of Georgetown University Press. 

"Christian Religious Discourse."  American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 65 (1991): 45–56.  Reprinted as "Chrzescijanski Dyskurs Religijny," trans. Alicja Michalik.  Tarnowskie Studia Teologiczne 11: 5–13.  Tarnów, Poland: Instytut Teologiczny w Tarnowie, 1992.

"Review Essay: 'Husserl and Analytic Philosophy, by Richard Cobb-Stevens, and Husserlian Intentionality and Non-Foundational Realism.  Noema and Object,' by John Drummond" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1992): 725–30.

"Parallelism in Conscious Experience." Daedalus 121 (1992): 87-103. Reprinted in A New Era in Computation, ed. Nicholas Metropolis and Gian-Carlo Rota, 87-103. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1993.

"Over het debat," trans. Willy Coolsaet and Johan Moyaert. In In Verhouding. Opstellen aangeboden aan Rudolf Boehm op zijn vijfenzestigste verjaardag, Festschrift for Rudolf Boehm, ed. Willy Coolsaet, 373-91. Ghent: Kritiek, 1993.

"Knowing Essentials." Review of Metaphysics 47 (1994): 691-709. 

"Philosophie et acte de foi chrétien." Revue philosophique de Louvain 92 (1994): 281-94.

"Edmund Husserl." The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

"Formal and Material Causality in Science." Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Supplement to American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 69 (1995): 57-67.

"Thoughts on Phenomenology and Skepticism." In Phenomenology and Skepticism. Essays in Honor of James M. Edie, ed. Brice R. Wachterhauser, 43-51. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996.

"Foreword." In Gian-Carlo Rota, Indiscrete Thoughts. Boston: Birkhäuser Verlag, 1996, xiii-xvii.

"Gadamer's Theory of Hermeneutics." In The Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer, ed. Lewis E. Hahn, 223-34. The Library of Living Philosophers, 24. Chicago: Open Court Publishers, 1997. 

"The Eucharist and Transubstantiation." Communio 24 (Winter, 1997): 867-80.

"Theology and Deconstruction." Review Essay of Catherine Pickstock, After Writing. Telos 110 (Winter, 1998): 155-66. 

"The Method of Philosophy: Making Distinctions." Review of Metaphysics 51 (1998): 515-32.

"Future Issues in Philosophy." In Essays on the Future. In Honor of Nick Metropolis, ed. Siegfried S. Hecker and Gian-Carlo Rota, 241-54. Boston: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2000.

"Transcendental Phenomenology." The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. Volume 7. Modern Philosophy, ed. Mark D. Gender, 233-41. Bowling Green, OH: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2000.

"Pope John Paul II and Phenomenology." Chicago Studies 39 (2000): 133-43.

"Phenomenology in the Last Hundred Years." In One Hundred Years of Philosophy, ed. Brian J. Shanley, O.P., 202-15. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, 36. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2001.

“Friendship and Moral Action in Aristotle.”  Journal of Value Inquiry 35 (2001): 355–69.  Greek translation: “philia kai ethike praxe ston Aristolele.”  Deucalion 17 (1999): 229–46.

"The Human Person and Political Life." Thomist 65 (2001): 505-27.

"Preface." In Pavlos Kontos, L'action morale chez Aristote. Une lecture phénoménologique et ses adversaires actuels. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2002.

"Phenomenology of Friendship." Review of Metaphysics 55 (2002): 451-70. "Phénoménologie de l'amité," trans. Pierre Blanc, in L'amitié, ed. Jean-Christophe Merle and Bernard N. Schumacher, 115–35. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2006.

"Semiotics in Husserl's Logical Investigations." In One Hundred Years of Phenomenology, ed. Dan Zahavi and Frederik Stjernfelt, 171-83. Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.

"The Autonomy of Philosophy in Fides et Ratio." In Restoring Faith in Reason., ed. Laurence Paul Hemming and Susan Parsons, 277-91. London: SCM Press, and Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.

"Soul and the Transcendence of the Human Person." In What is Man, O Lord? The Human Person in a Biotech Age, Proceedings of the Eighteenth Bishops' Workshop, ed. Edward A. Furton and Louise A. Mitchell, 49-63. Boston: The National Catholic Bioethics Center, 2003.

"Phenomenology and the Eucharist." Theology Digest 49 (2002): 347-58.

"The Sixth Logical Investigation." In Husserl's "Logical Investigations," ed. Daniel O. Dahlstrom, 109-22. Synthese Library, 318. Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

Revelation of the Holy Trinity. A Study in Personal Pronouns." In Ethics and Theological Disclosures. The Thought of Robert Sokolowski, ed. Guy Mansini, O.S.B, and James Hart, 162-77. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003.

"Language, the Human Person, and Christian Faith." Aquinas Medal Lecture, 2002. Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. 76 (2003): 27-38.

"La grammaire comme signal de la pensée," trans. Jocelyn Benoist. In Husserl: La représentation vide, ed. Jocelyn Benoist and J.-F. Courtine, 97-108. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2003.

"Categorial Intentions and Objects." In Categories. Historical and Systematic Essays, ed. Michael Gorman and Jonathan J. Sanford, 204-24. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, 41. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004. Reprint of a chapter in Introduction to Phenomenology.

“What is Natural Law? Human Purposes and Natural Ends.” Thomist 68 (2004): 507–29.

“Predication as a Public Action.” Acta Philosophica. Rivista internationale di filosofia 14 (2005): 59–76.

“Visual Intelligence in Painting.” Review of Metaphysics 59 (2005): 333-54.

“Intellectual Formation in Catholic Seminaries.” Seminarium 46 (2006): 827-46.

“Freedom, Responsibility, and Truth.” In Freedom and the Human Person, edited by Richard Velkley, 39-53. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, 48. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2007.

“The Christian Difference in Personal Relationships.”  In On Wings of Faith and Reason, edited by Craig Steven Titus, 68–84.  Arlington, VA: The Institute for Psychological Sciences Press, 2008.  

“Discovery and Obligation in Natural Law.” To appear in a volume edited by Holger Zaborowski, published by The Catholic University of America Press.

"Husserl's Discovery of Philosophical Discourse," Husserl Studies 24 (2008): 167-75.  Typed version available here.  The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com. 

“The Science of Being as Being in Aristotle, Aquinas, and Wippel.” To appear in a volume edited by Gregory Doolan and published by the Catholic University of America Press.

“Husserl on First Philosophy.”  Husserl Memorial Lecture, 2009.  To appear in a volume of the papers of a conference at the Husserl Archives, Leuven, commemorating Husserl’s 150th birthday, published in Phaenomenologica. 

 

RECENT BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Edmund Husserl, Die Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phänomenologie. Ergänzungsband. Review of Metaphysics (1995): 900–2.

Review of Eduard Marbach, Mental Representation and Consciousness: Towards a Phenomenological Theory of Representation and Reference. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1993.  Review of Metaphysics 49 (1995): 144-47. 

Review of Rüdiger Safranski, Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil. First Things 89 (January 1999): 54–57.Review of Catherine Pickstock, After Writing: On the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Critical Thought 110 (1998): 155-66. 

Review essay of the Encyclopedia of Phenomenology. Husserl Studies 15 (1998): 125–36.

Review of Edmund Husserl, Logik und allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie. Vorlesungen 1917/18, mit ergänzenden Texten aus der ersten Fassung 1910/11. Review of Metaphysics 52 (1999): 689–91.

Review of Robert E. Wood, Placing Aesthetics. Reflections on the Philosophic Tradition. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1999. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (2002): 488–90.

Review of Dieter Lohmar, Husserls “Formale und transzendentale Logik.” Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2000 (Series Werkinterpretationen). Husserl Studies 18 (2002): 233-43.

Review of Edmund Husserl, Logik. Vorlesung 1902/03. Husserliana Materialienbände, Vol. 2. Edited by Elisabeth Schuhmann. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. Allgemeine Erkenntnistheorie. Vorlesung 1902/03. Husserliana Materialienbände, vol. 3. Edited by Elisabeth Schuhmann. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. Review of Metaphysics 56 (2002): 427–31.

Review of Dominik Perler, ed., Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality. Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, vol. 76. Leiden, Boston, and Cologne: Brill, 2001. Review of Metaphysics 56 (2002): 446–50.

Review of Sebastian Luft, Phänomenologie der Phänomenologie. Systematik und Methodologie der Phänomenologie in der Auseinadersetzung zwischen Husserl und Fink. Phaenomenologica 166. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. Husserl Studies 21 (2005): 257-61.


Review of Edmund Husserl, Logische Untersuchungen Ergänzungsband. Zweiter Teil. Texte für die Neuaffassung der VI Untersuchung. Zur Phänomenologie des Ausdrucks und der Erkenntnis (1893/94-1921). Edited by Ullrich Melle. Husserliana, vol. 20/2. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005. Review of Metaphysics 61 (2007):425-26.

Review of Michael Roubach.  Being and Number in Heidegger’s Thought.  Translated from the Hebrew by Nessa Olshansky-Ashtar.  London and New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008.  History and Philosophy of Logic 30 (2009): 202-204.

Review of Santiago Zabala, The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy: A Study of Ernst Tugendhat. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.  Online on Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, dated 2008.08.22: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=14025. 

Review of J. N. Mohanty.  The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl: A Historical Development.  New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Husserl Studies 25 (2009): 255–60.