Phenomenology and Pragmatism

Sami Pihlström is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Helsinki, Finland, as well as the President of the Philosophical Society of Finland. His recent books include Kantian Antitheodicy (with Sari Kivistç, 2016), Death and Finitude (2016), and Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy (forthcoming 2020).

Ryosuke Ohashi was born in 1944 in Kyoto/Japan. He studied at Kyoto University between 1965 and 1969. He was awarded the PhD by Munich University in 1973 and received his Habiltation at Würzburg University in 1983. He was professor at Kyoto technical University, Osaka University, Ryukoku University. He was awarded the Phillip Franz von Siebold-Prize by the German President Richard von Weizsäcker in 1990. He was fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin be- tween 1997 and 1998) and of the International College Morphomata in Collogne between 2010 and 2011. His fields of research are: Phenomenology, German Ideal- ism, Japanese Philosophy and Aesthetics, Philosophy of History. He published in many European languages.

Niels Weidtmann is Director of the interdisciplinary institute Forum Scientiarum at the University of Tübingen. He has studied philosophy and biology at the Uni- versity of Würzburg and at Duke-University in Durham, N.C., USA, and got his PhD in philosophy from University of Würzburg. His research interests are in in- tercultural philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics, anthropology, and the phi- losophy of science. He is author of the book Interkulturelle Philosophie. Aufgaben – Dimensionen – Wege (Tübingen 2016), editor of several book series and has pub- lished a wide range of articles.

Sebastian Luft, der an zahlreichen Hochschulen beiderseits des Atlantiks gelehrt hat, ist Professor für Philosophie an der Marquette Universität in Milwaukee. Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten zählen u.a. die Phänomenologie und die Kulturphilosophie. Sebastian Luft is professor of philosophy at Marquette University. He has worked in the areas of phenomenology and the philosophy of culture. His newer interest is a systematic comparison between phenomenology and pragmatism. Since 2019 he is, together with Konstantin Pollok and Andrea Staiti, editor of the Journal for Transcendental Philosophy (DeGruyter).

Karin Amos ist Professorin für Erziehungswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Allgemeine Pädagogik unter besonderer Berücksichtigung International vergleichender Bildungsforschung und Interkultureller Pädagogik. Sie ist seit dem Wintersemester 2006/07 am Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft der Universität Tübingen tätig. Seit dem Wintersemester 2013/14 hat sie das Amt der Prorektorin für Studium und Lehre inne. Im Zentrum ihrer Forschungen steht die gesellschaftliche Bedingtheit erziehungswissenschaftlichen Denkens und pädagogischen Handelns seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. In diesem Zusammenhang bildet die Auseinandersetzung mit John Deweys bildungs- und erziehungsphilosophischen Überlegungen einen wichtigen Referenzpunkt.

Sara Heinämaa is Academy Professor (2017– 2021) of the Academy of Finland, leading a five-year research project in phenomenology of normality and experiential norms. She holds a chair for philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä and is docent of theoretical philosophy at the University of Helsinki. In her systematic work, Heinämaa investigates the nature of embodiment, intersubjectivity, temporality, and normality. She has published widely in phenomenology, existentialism, philosophy of mind and history of philosophy.

Jason Bell is associate professor of philosophy at the University of New Brunswick. He has previously served at the University of Gçttingen as Fulbright Professor, and as principal investigator of the SSHRC-supported research project “Discovering Canada’s Contributions to the Origins of the International Phenomenological movement in the Winthrop Bell Papers”.

Steven Crowell is Joseph and Joanna Nazro Mullen Professor of Humanities, and Professor of Philosophy, at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Crowell is the au- thor of two books, Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning (2001) and Nor- mativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger (2013). He is editor of the Cambridge Companion to Existentialism (2012) and, with Jeff Malpas, Tran- scendental Heidegger (2007). He is also co-editor, with Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl, of the journal Husserl Studies.

Inga Römer ist Professorin für deutsche Philosophie an der Universität Grenoble und Mitherausgeberin der »Phänomenologischen Forschungen«.