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Burt C. Hopkins (born February 7, 1954) is an American philosopher. He is a Permanent Faculty member of the Summer School of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy,
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, former Professor and Chair of Philosophy at
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(1989-2016) and Permanent Secretary of the Husserl Circle. He has been visiting professor at the
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, China (2013), visiting professor at the
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and the Koyré Center, Paris, France (2015–17), Senior Fellow at the Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine,
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(2018), visiting professor at
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and
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(2021) and most recently Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy,
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(2019-2020, 2022) and Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University (Prague).


Biography

Hopkins earned his BA in philosophy from
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in Pennsylvania under the direction of James F. Sheridan, his MA in philosophy at
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under the direction of , and his Ph.D. in philosophy from
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in Chicago under the direction of
Parvis Emad Parvis Emad (September 4, 1935 – February 16, 2023) was an Iranian-American philosopher and translator of Martin Heidegger's writings. He was the founder and co-editor of the journal '' Heidegger Studies''. Emad was a professor emeritus at DePau ...
. He is founding co-editor (with
Steven Crowell Steven Crowell is an American philosopher and professor emeritus at Rice University, where he taught from 1983 to 2022. Crowell earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1981. His work has largely focused on twentieth-century European ...
) of ''The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy''.


Academic work

Hopkins is best known for his work on
Husserl Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (; 8 April 1859 – 27 April 1938) was an Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician who established the school of phenomenology. In his early work, he elaborated critiques of historicism and of psychologism in ...
and Jacob Klein, although he has also published on
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,
Kant Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 â€“ 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, et ...
,
Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; 26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. His work covers a range of topics including metaphysics, art, and language. In April ...
, and
Derrida Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida;Peeters (2013), pp. 12–13. See also 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French Algerian philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, ...
. His 1993 book '' Intentionality in Husserl and Heidegger: The Problem of the Original Method and Phenomenon of Phenomenology'' defends the philosophical superiority of Husserl's transcendental phenomenological method over Heidegger's hermeneutical refashioning of phenomenology's method. Hopkins's general argument is that Heidegger's hermeneutical critique of Husserl's reflective phenomenology of consciousness presupposes the structures of Husserl's phenomenology that are the targets of that critique. According to
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, the book is held in 225 libraries. His 2010 book ''The Philosophy of Husserl'' presents a defense of Husserl's transcendental phenomenology from the critiques of
Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; 26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. His work covers a range of topics including metaphysics, art, and language. In April ...
and
Derrida Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida;Peeters (2013), pp. 12–13. See also 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French Algerian philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, ...
. It does so by challenging their common claim that Husserl's is historically determined by the limits of Greek ontology and metaphysics. According to
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, the book is held in 2,758 libraries. His 2011 book, ''The Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics: Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein'', compares Klein's largely overlooked ''Greek Mathematics and the Origin of Algebra (1934 and 1936)'' with Husserl's concern to provide a philosophical foundation for the formalization of logic and mathematics. According to
WorldCat WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of tens of thousands of institutions (mostly libraries), in many countries, that are current or past members of the OCLC global cooperative. It is operated by OCLC, Inc. Many of the O ...
, the book is held in 1,786 libraries.


Books

*''The Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics: Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein'' (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011) *''The Philosophy of Husserl'' (Chesam, UK: Acumen Press and Montreal: McGill University Press, 2010) *''Intentionality in Husserl and Heidegger: The Problem of the Original Method and Phenomenon of Phenomenology'' (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993)


References

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