Between You and I: Dialogical Phenomenology

Acknowledgments

a C k n o w l e D g M e n t S ................................... I am grateful to colleagues and friends at the Department of Philosophy, the University of Oregon, for supporting my work in general, and this book in particular. I feel privileged to have found a scholarly home where thinking across disciplines is cherished, and contesting the canon graciously received. I would like to thank Scott Pratt for cheerful encouragement of my initial decision to embark on a scholarly journey across some previously unexplored territories; to Mark Johnson for the many friendly conversations and helpful responses to early drafts of the manuscript; to John Lysaker for inspiration. I am especially indebted to Bonnie Mann for sharing her brilliance and humor with me, expanding my phenomenological horizons, and for unfailing friendship . I am very grateful to Ted Toadvine for the interest in this book project, and for shepherding it through the Continental Series at the Ohio University Press. Thanks to Elena Cuffari for help with editing and formatting the text. Over the years, I have been inspired and motivated by friends and colleagues both in the United States and in Europe. I would like to express special thanks to Shaun Gallagher for his generosity and guidance in my scholarly work, for infecting me with enthusiasm for phenomenology and the cognitive sciences, and for gracefully providing an exemplar of how to conduct rigorous research across reflective and applied disciplines. Thank you for the many conversations, especially the one on the London subway. I am profoundly indebted to Eva Simms for her scholarly advice and comments on portions of the early draft. Thank you for inspiring me and others with groundbreaking research in phenomenological psychology, where poetry and science speak in a unison that is rarely heard in contemporary academia. Thank you also to Sara Heinamaa for letting me bear witness to an astounding intellect, focus, and mount-lifting motivation; I have always felt empowered by our conversations. I would also like to thank Matthew Ratcliffe for his enthusiasm and constructive critique of my work, which helped to balance things a xiv aCknowledgments bit. Malcolm Wilson provided helpful comments regarding the use of dual number in Plato. Over the years, I have also benefited from my exposure to the work of and friendly advice and suggestions from Gail Weiss, Helen Fielding, and Linda Fisher, as well as David Morris. I would like to express my lasting gratitude to Rudolf Bernet for introducing me to phenomenological research and exemplifying extraordinary scholarly rigor. The two anonymous reviewers at Ohio University Press helped to fine-tune the presentation of transcendental phenomenology throughout this monograph. The debt to my mom, Renata Stawarska, is an infinite one. Thank you for your love and care, and for ever so gently steering me onto the rocky paths of an academic career through your own admirable example. Thank you to my brother, Piotr Stawarski, for love and affection, and explosive humor that shines a light in darkness. I would like to acknowledge my gratitude to Alan Mayhew for encouragement and support during my graduate school years. None of this would have happened without such generosity. I would like to thank Stuart Murray for being a good friend and inspiring intellectual over the years. Thank you also to Olivier Wehner, Iwona Bogaczyk , Bruce Tabb and Ron Unger, Chris Ogle, as well as Carolyn Culbertson and Miles Hentrup, for your friendship. Thank you to Matt Dold for a life in dialogue. My thanks go to Springer for permission to reprint portions of “Feeling Good Vibrations in Dialogical Relations,” which appeared in Continental Philosophy Review 41, no. 2 (2008), as well as portions of “Persons, Pronouns , and Perspectives. Linguistic and Developmental Contributions to Dialogical Phenomenology,” which appeared in Folk Psychology Reassessed in 2007. Also thanks to Francis and Taylor for permission to reprint portions of “You and I, Here and Now. Spatial and Social Situatedness in Deixis,” which appeared in International Journal of Philosophical Studies 16, no. 3 (2008), and to CHIASMI for permission to reprint portions of “Dialogue at the Limit of Phenomenology” from 2009. ...