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James Mensch is a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy. In April 2011, he was awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant for the project, “A Commentary on Levinas’ Totality and Infinity (2011-2013).

His previous Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grants were for the projects “Patočka’s A-subjective Phenomenology” (2008-11), “Husserl’s Account of Time and Internal Time Consciousness” (2002-06) and “The Internalized Perception of the Self and Others as a Basis for Ethics” (1998-2002).

In 2010, his book, Embodiments From the Body to the Body Politic, won Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy’s Symposium Annual Book Award for the best work in continental philosophy. As a consequence, he was invited as the opening keynote speaker for the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy’s conference in Saint John’s, Newfoundland in October 2011.

The author of ten monographs, he serves on the boards of numerous journals. Currently, he is a member for philosophy in the newly established Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insights Grants committee.

Recent Publications:

Husserl’s Account of our Consciousness of Time, Marquette University Press, 2010 (278 pages).

“Patočka’s Conception of the Subject of Human Rights,” Idealistic Studies, 41, Nos. 1-2, Spring & Summer, 2011, pp. 1-10. A Czech version of this article also appeared in Filosoficky Casopis, 2011.

“Religious Violence: Hating your Neighbor as Yourself,” Symposium, Journal of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, Fall 2011, pp. 1-19.

“Zu einem neuen phänomenologischen Paradigma politischen Denkens,” Gelebter Leib-verkörpertes Leben, special issue of Mesotes. Zeitschrift für philosophischen Ost-West-Dialog, 2011, pp. 183-202.

“The Mind-Body Problem and Merleau-Ponty’s Concept of the Intertwining” in Investigating Subjectivity: Classical and New Perspectives, eds. Gert-Jan van der Heiden, Karel Novotný, Inga Römer and László Tengelyi, Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2011, pp. 79-95.

“Empathy and Rationality,” in The Politics of Empathy, Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2010, pp. 1-11. A version also appeared in Hermeneutic Rationality/La rationalité herméneutique, ed. Andrzej Wiercinski, Toronto: The Hermeneutic Press, 2011, pp. 553-60.

“Retention and the Schema,” in On Time. New Contributions to Husserl's Theory

of Time-constitution, eds. Dieter Lohmar and Ichiro Yamaguchi, Dordrecht: Springer Verlag, 2010, pp. 153-168.

“Patočka and Artificial Intelligence,” in Jan Patočka and the Heritage of Phenomenology. Centenary Papers, eds. Ivan Chvatik and Erika Abrams, Dordrecht: Springer Verlag, 2010, pp. 111-120.

 In addition, the following articles and chapters were accepted for publication:

“The Question of Naturalizing Phenomenology, Symposium, Journal of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, in press.

“Violence and Selfhood,” Human Studies, in press.

“Erinnern und Vergessen im öffentlichem Raum,” Psycho-logik Jahrbuch für Psychotherapie, Philosophie und Kultur (Freiburg), 7/2012, in press.

“Gli elementi del conto husserliana della coscienza del tempo interiore,” Rivista di critica filosofica, in press.

“Religiöse Intoleranz: Hasse deinen Nächsten wie dich selbst,” in Negativistische Sozialphilosophie, special issue of the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, in press.

“The Elements of Husserl’s Account of Inner-Time Consciousness,” in Subjective Time: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Temporality, eds. Valtteri Arstila and Dan Lloyd, MIT Press, in press.

The above volume also includes the following translations of Husserl by me:

“The Exclusion of Objective Time,” translated from Edmund Husserl, Zur Phänomenologie des inneren Zeitbewusstseins (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1966), §1, pp. 4-8.

“The Constitution of Things and their Appearances. Constituted and Primal Interpretations,” translated from Edmund Husserl, Zur Phänomenologie des inneren Zeitbewusstseins (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1966), §6, pp. 90-94.

“The role of ‘anticipations’ (protentions) in the constitution of phenomenological time,” translated from Edmund Husserl, Die Bernauer Manuskripte über das Zeitbewusstsein (1917/18), ed. R. Bernet and D. Lohmar (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 8-11.

“The primal phenomenon of the living present. Its essence as a fixed form of a process constituting the temporality of a concrete individual,” translated from Edmund Husserl, Späte Texte über Zeitkonstitution (1929-1934): Die C-Manuskripte, ed. Dieter Lohmar (Dordrecht: Springer Verlag, 2006), §3, pp. 6-9.

Why Study Philosophy:

http://www.stfx.ca/people/jmensch/Why%20study%20philosophy.html

http://www4.desales.edu/~philtheo/philosophy_major.html

http://www.philosophy.eku.edu/scores.htm

http://www.philosophy.eku.edu/why.htm

How much can you earn with an undergraduate philosophy degree (compared to other degrees)? See:

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Other: Nice picture: Saint Francis: SSF-uccelli.jpg

James Mensch will be on a leave of absence from July 1, 2011 to June 31, 2112.