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February 5, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Expectations as Emotional Motivations for Interest: An Analysis from the Perspective of Husserl’s Phenomenology of Attention -- Andrea Scanziani

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Snip of article listing, reading: Article Expectations as Emotional Motivations for Interest: An Analysis from the Perspective of Husserl’s Phenomenology of Attention [by] Andrea Scanziani Published online: 25 Dec 2025 ABSTRACT The goal of this article is to identify a sense of motivation in Husserl’s work that develops from the manuscripts of 1893 and 1898 and later assumes fundamental relevance in his genetic phenomenology. This is the sense of motivation that drives the explicative movement accompanied by a certain degree of interest in an object of experience, as well as the preference attributed to certain objects within the horizon of experience. At the level of basic experiences such as doxic acts, both preference and the direction of experience are associated with a form of attention. In his early analyses of attention and interest, Husserl identifies an initial sense of motivation linked to the tension generated by ‘expectations’, which set in motion the rhythm of continuous tension and resolution. This rhythm culminates in a ‘pleasure in noticing’ that defines interest. Therefore, this work reconstructs the path that leads Husserl to define emotional expectations within the act of noticing, and pleasure as the affective motivation for the development of experience. Finally, it follows Husserl in his genetic identification of motivation in the ‘pleasure affection’, which reveals its origin in instinct.
February 11, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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Facticity, Motivation, and Temporality in the Early Heidegger --
Yorgos G. Filippopoulos

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Snip of article listing, reading: Article Facticity, Motivation, and Temporality in the Early Heidegger [by] Yorgos G. Filippopoulos ABSTRACT This paper investigates the concept of motivation in the early Heidegger, situating its emergence within the development of his project of Urwissenschaft, formed at the intersection of Neo-Kantian philosophy and Husserlian phenomenology. Whereas Husserl conceives motivation as a connective structure between acts of consciousness, Heidegger – drawing on Rickert’s analysis of value-motivation – reworks the notion through his reinterpretation of the core phenomenological concept of Erlebnis, a move that marks his hermeneutical turn toward factical life. I argue that Heidegger’s delineation of the field of facticity, in decisive contrast to the theoretical attitude, uncovers an originary level of factical living in which motivation appears as an intrinsic feature of life’s own ‘movedness’ (Bewegtheit). From this originary ground – and through this intrinsic motivation – theoretical inquiry first arises by way of a motivated distancing from the immediate flow of life. The paper concludes by showing that Heidegger’s earliest conception of temporality – well before Being and Time – emerges phenomenologically from this motivational structure of factical life and from the way life’s movedness articulates its own temporal unfolding.
February 11, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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Third-person Encounters: Beauvoir, Walther, and the ‘We’ of Social Identities -- Tris Hedges

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Snip of article listing, reading: Article Third-person Encounters: Beauvoir, Walther, and the ‘We’ of Social Identities [by] Tris Hedges Published online: 22 Dec 2025 ABSTRACT Upon entering Harlem for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir recounts how ‘a force pulls me back … fear. Not mine but that of others – the fear of all those whites who never take the risk of going to Harlem’. But of what are they fearful? The risk, Beauvoir describes, is not that of an external danger but themselves. These passages detail the phenomenon of having one’s collective being, one’s unity to certain others, revealed to oneself through a third-person encounter. In this paper, (2) I make sense of Beauvoir’s reflections through Gerda Walther’s social ontology, (3) to show how we consistently undergo pre-reflective we-experiences qua social identities. (4) I then demonstrate how this pre-reflective ‘we’ is made reflective by the external Third; and (5) how we may reflectively disavow ourselves of this ‘we’ when we find it uncomfortable, alienating, and inappropriate. These novel inroads into the phenomenology of collective intentionality leads me (6) to argue that while members of dominant groups enjoy the privilege of having their collective being remain in the unremarkable background, members who inhabit social identities that are stigmatised and oppressed are systematically forced back upon themselves through third-person encounters.
February 11, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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A Stalemate in Naturalizing Ethics: Insights from Theories of Punishment -- Andrea Lavazza, Sofia Bonicalzi & Mario De Caro

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Snip of Article listing, reading: A Stalemate in Naturalizing Ethics: Insights from Theories of Punishment [by] Andrea Lavazza, Sofia Bonicalzi & Mario De Caro Published online: 19 Dec 2025 ABSTRACT This essay critically examines whether ethical naturalization – understood as the grounding of moral inquiry in empirical sciences – can resolve enduring normative disputes. Focusing specifically on the conflict between retributivist and consequentialist justifications of punishment, we investigate whether naturalistic approaches (drawing on evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics), in addition to explaining the origins and persistence of moral intuitions and practices, can also justify their normative authority. Scientific naturalists seek to reduce or replace normative ethics with descriptive accounts, often deploying evolutionary debunking arguments to challenge moral realism. Liberal naturalists, by contrast, integrate empirical insights without eliminating irreducible normativity. Through analysis of punishment theories, this article argues that, while naturalization sheds light on the evolutionary roots of retributive intuitions (e.g. adaptive cooperation mechanisms) and highlights neuroscientific challenges to free will, thus reinforcing consequentialist explanations, it nevertheless fails to adjudicate which theory is morally superior, since empirical explanations do not bridge the is-ought gap (Hume’s problem). The resulting stalemate highlights naturalization’s explanatory adequacy but normative insufficiency. The essay concludes by advocating a pluralistic integration in line with liberal naturalism, where science informs, but does not replace, philosophical reflection on ethical justification.
February 11, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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WORLDS APART Heidegger and Analytic Philosophy -- David R. Cerbone

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Article listing, reading@ WORLDS APART Heidegger and Analytic Philosophy [by] David R. Cerbone Published online: 19 Dec 2025 ABSTRACT An examination of the concept and role of ’world’ in Heidegger and in analytic philosophy. My basic claim is that the notion of world is as motley and varied in analytic philosophy as it is in everyday language. This by itself makes any comparison between Heidegger and analytic philosophy on the notion of world more than a little fraught. More than that, if one looks at particular cases in analytic philosophy (Putnam, McDowell, Sider, Lewis, Goodman), whatever Heidegger is after with the notion of world does not align with – and in some cases diverges massively – from how the notion is deployed in analytic philosophy. This should make us cautious about trying to attribute theses couched in the language of analytic philosophy (e.g. the internalism-externalism) debate to Heidegger. To the extent that comparisons can be made, they primarily illustrate the ways in which, from Heidegger’s perspective, analytic philosophy fails to recognize the questions and problems that motivate his philosophy.
February 6, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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'Condemned to Proceeding': Time, Motivation and the Human Heart in Merleau-Ponty and Zambrano
Pat McConville

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Snip of article listing, reading: Article ''Condemned to Proceeding': Time, Motivation and the Human Heart in Merleau-Ponty and Zambrano [by] Pat McConville ABSTRACT Work on Merleau-Ponty has tended to overlook the role of the internal body in his phenomenology. In this paper, I examine the role of the heart as a temporalising and motivating organ for human experience by aligning his work with phenomenologist and writer, María Zambrano. In the first part, I consider some of Merleau-Ponty’s comments on temporality and the organs, especially the heart. In the second part, I consider two interpretations of the heart as a temporalising organ which might shed light on the Merleau-Ponty’s view: as affective background, or as interoceptive timekeeper. In the third part, I make a case for the compatibility of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology with Zambrano’s with reference to their joint use of philosophical metaphor. In the fourth part, I offer a reading of Zambrano’s essay ‘The Metaphor of the Heart’ and argue that her account is sympathetic to and complementary with the temporality of the heart Merleau-Ponty suggests. In the fifth and final part, I situate this account of the heart in relation to Merleau-Ponty’s concept of motivation. Ultimately, I conclude that the heart forms a prepersonal background resulting in the body-subject being motivated and oriented to their own, personal future.
February 6, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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Giving a Second Chance -- Yotam Benziman

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Snip of Article Listing, which reads: Article Giving a Second Chance [by] Yotam Benziman Published online: 18 Dec 2025 ABSTRACT ABSTRACT The phenomenon is common. We were reckless, or careless, or perhaps lost our temper. We have wronged somebody. Yet we ask, and are given, a second chance. In this paper I analyze this notion, which has not been discussed as such in ethical theory. Forgiveness, a related concept, has been analyzed thoroughly. However, prevalent analyses of forgiveness present it as entailing some playing down the wrongdoing that has caused the damage to begin with. It has to do with diminishing our resentment, with separating the person from the act, and the past wrong from choices to be made in the future. I show why the notion of asking for a second chance is better suited to deal with wrongdoing. It entails the opposite of downplaying the wrong. The wrongdoer wishes to interpret the wrong, to build on it, to learn a lesson, to shape the second chance so as not to repeat the mistakes of the first. It is the guilty as such whom we give a second chance, thus avoiding what is known as the paradox of forgiveness. A second chance, as opposed to forgiveness, can also be granted by third parties, rather than by the offended themselves.
February 6, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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On the Dynamic of Temporality in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception -- Vanessa Ossino

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Snip of article listing, reading: Article On the Dynamic of Temporality in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception [by] Vanessa Ossino Published Online: 18 Dec 2025 Abstract The paper elaborates on the notion of ‘time itself’ as developed by Merleau-Ponty in the Temporality chapter of Phenomenology of Perception. More specifically, by considering the processual structure of time, his conceptualization of the dynamic of temporality is questioned in light of the operative logic of motivation. The question being addressed is whether the processual dynamic of time can be understood as a motivational unity, especially with regard to Merleau-Ponty’s approximation to Heidegger’s concept of time. It is argued that while the concept of motivation is a necessary step for Merleau-Ponty towards his understanding of temporality, it is not sufficient for its description. This is because it fails to adequately capture the ontological scope of Merleau-Ponty’s project.
January 29, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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Are Normative Explanatory Reasons Fundamentally Distinct from Normative Justificatory Reasons? A Critique of Logins’s Erotetic View of Reasons -- Byeong D. Lee

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Snip of article listing, reading: Article Are Normative Explanatory Reasons Fundamentally Distinct from Normative Justificatory Reasons? A Critique of Logins’s Erotetic View of Reasons [by] Byeong D. Lee Published online: 18 Dec 2025 Abstract: On Logins’s Erotetic View of reasons, normative reasons are the possible appropriate answers to normative ‘Why?’ questions. These questions can be interpreted in two ways: as requiring either an argument/reasoning or an explanation. Consequently, this view posits not only normative reasoning reasons but also normative explanatory reasons. Against this view, this paper argues for two claims. First, putative normative explanatory reasons are not fundamentally distinct from normative justificatory reasons. Second, although normative ‘Why?’ questions could sometimes guide someone normatively, these questions themselves are not genuinely normative.
January 29, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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On the Husserlian Phenomenology of Remembering: Passive and Active Motivations -- Verónica Kretschel

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Snip of article listing, reading: Article On the Husserlian Phenomenology of Remembering: Passive and Active Motivations (by) Verónica Kretschel Published online: 17 Dec 2025 ABSTRACT This paper uses Husserlian phenomenology to explore the complexact of remembering. It argues that remembering is a dynamicinterplay that transcends the mere static preservation of thepast. The distinction between static and genetic phenomenologyis crucial. Static analysis, particularly in early work on timeconsciousness, identifies retentional modification (the continuoussinking and preservation of experiences) as the fundamentalcondition for memory. However, it does not fully explain howmemories become accessible. Genetic phenomenology provides adeeper understanding by focusing on the “origin” of consciousnessand introducing passive synthesis. Central to this concept isaffective awakening, where present perceptions connect withpast experiences through an affective “force.” This connectioncan bring seemingly “forgotten” retentions into awareness,serving as the passive grounding for both involuntary and activelysought recollections. The study further examines how activemotivations, such as consciously documenting experiences orrevisiting photographs, strengthen these passive connections.These interactions shape our personal history and contribute tothe ongoing constitution of the self. Ultimately, the paper presentsremembering not as a simple act of retrieval, but rather as anongoing, multifaceted engagement with our past that influencesboth our present and future.
January 15, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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Coming to Terms with Foucauldianism: Emancipation or Anti-Politics? -- Marco Mazzone

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Snip of article listing, reading: Article 'Coming to Terms with Foucauldianism: Emancipation or Anti-Politics? (by) Marco Mazzone Published online: 16 Dec 2025 ABSTRACT ABSTRACT Michel Foucault’s work is often seen as a guide for political action toward the emancipation of individuals and social groups. This article challenges a certain way of pursuing this project, referred to here as the ‘standard view’ of Foucault’s thought. At the heart of this view lies a theoretical core that is a-political, if not anti-political: the idea that the only ‘good’ form of political action is an act of resistance to any form of government. To analyse this view, I examine key responses to major criticisms of Foucault, notably determinism in subjectivation and relativism, and show that they fail to move beyond a framework that denies subjects political responsibility. I then examine the obstacles to a political reading of Foucault by contrasting the difficulties faced by liberal interpretations with the anti-system Foucault that dominates the standard view.
January 15, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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What Does it Take to Start Anew? Thinking the Temporal Resistance of Conversion with Sartre -- Renxiang Liu

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Snip of article listing, reading: 'What Does it Take to Start Anew? Thinking the Temporal Resistance of Conversion with Sartre' -- Renxiang Liu Published online: 16 Dec 2025 ABSTRACT In this paper, I take three steps to articulate, in the context of Sartre’s L’être et le néant, the temporal resistance of conversion, broadly construed as transforming to a radically new fundamental project. First, I lay out the basic concepts of Sartrean ontology of nothingness, explaining how they helped Sartre justify our total freedom in the ontological sense. Second, I explore in the Sartrean context the dialogue between the fundamental project and particular acts. Third, by mapping the two terms of the dialogue onto Sartre’s schema for the temporality of being-for-itself, I reconstruct from Sartre’s arguments a defense of the temporal resistance of conversion, which is based on the for-itself’s non-convergence with itself and the original delay of the fundamental project from its realization.
January 14, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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Time Biases and the Temporal Faith: Habits and Lived-Time in Addiction and OCD-- Jack Reynolds

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Snip of article listing, reading: 'Time Biases and the Temporal Faith: Habits and Lived-Time in Addiction and OCD' -- Jack Reynolds Published online: 14 Dec 2025 ABSTRACT Philosophers in the phenomenological tradition have emphasised the relationship between temporality and various central aspects of subjectivity, including consciousness, meaning, and selfhood. In this paper, I set out what I call a ‘co-constitutive’ view about the relation between time and subjectivity, which can be attributed to some phenomenologists (i.e. Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger). I also emphasise the extension of this co-constitutive view in habits, including in some of the distinctive temporal habits associated with psychopathological instances of addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). On that basis, I ask some critical questions about views of epistemic rationality and temporal biases that are influential in decision theory and in some accounts of well-being and psychopathology. Rather than view time biases as an irrational evolutionary outcome, I contend that what is needed is a deeper understanding of the relationship between lived-time, habits, and motivation. The question of the rationality of time-preferences needs to be understood in that more situated context that involves a ‘temporal faith’, rather than a view from nowhen, if it is to have action-guiding and normative force.
January 14, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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Silos of the Mind: Epistemic Vices, Institutional Incentives, and Philosophy’s Interdisciplinary Gap-- Gerry Dunne & Alkis Kotsonis

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Emotional Motivation and Affective Intentionality in Ressentiment and Hate -- Íngrid Vendrell Ferran

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Heidegger’s Interpretation of Nietzsche’s Nachlass -- Morganna Lambeth

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A Pragmatic Approach to Literary Interpretation -- by Szu-Len Yin

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Liberal Naturalism, Reflective Empiricism, and Transference Explanations in Psychoanalysis -- by Talia Morag

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Casati’s Dialetheist Reading of Heidegger: A Critique
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October 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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