Thinking about Thinking: What Kind of Conversation is Philosophy?

Acknowledgments

ix acknowledgments Several chapters of this book grew out of earlier papers that were thoroughly reworked in response to the beneficial critique of students or colleagues, whom I thank for their remarks in the preface. A few parts of chapter 1 are borrowed from a text with the Hölderlinian title “Dass ein Gespräch wir sind,” which was presented at a biannual meeting of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Phänomenologische Forschung in October 1996 and published in Der Anspruch des Anderen, Perspektiven phänomenologischer Ethik, ed. Bernhard Waldenfels and Iris Därmann (München: Fink Verlag, 1998), 17–34. Chapter 2 grew out of the essay “On the Unity of Systematic Philosophy and History of Philosophy,” published in History and AntiHistory of Philosophy, ed. T. Z. Lavine and V. Tejera (Dordrecht: Kluwer , 1989), 19–31. Reprinted with kind permission from Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Chapter 3 is the several times revised version of a paper that was presented at a small conference on hermeneutics at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, in July 1986, which was convened by my good, generous, and regretted friend Joseph J. Kockelmans, who edited and published it in Hermeneutic Phenomenology (Washington, D.C.: CARP, 1988), 315–330. Chapter 4 is a revised version of an address given at a graduate students’ conference on education, held at Boston College in March 2009. x Acknowledgments In chapter 5 I used but modified a text that was presented as Schuwer Lecture in October 2001 at the annual SPEP Conference in Baltimore . The first version was published in Phenomenology Today, The Schuwer Lectures 1998-2002, ed. Daniel J. Martino (Pittsburgh, Penn.: Duquesne University Press, 2003), 54 –70. Chapter 6 is a somewhat modified reprint of my contribution to a festschrift for Emilio Brito under the title Philosophie et Théologie, ed. E. Gaziaux (Leuven: Peeters, 2007), 539–545. Chapter 7 incorporates some parts of “Philosophy—A Way of Life?” which was published in La filosofia come servizio, a festschrift in honor of Giovanni Ferretti, edited by Robert Mancini and Maurizio Migliori in Vita e Pensiero (Torino, 2010), 819–828. Chapter 8 is a rewritten and expanded version of “The Universality of Catholic Philosophy,” published in Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 60 (2004): 813–826. Chapter 9 offers, with some modifications, a text that was presented at the Colloquium Castelli of January 4 –7, 2008, in Rome, and published in Il Sacrificio. Archivio di Filosofia 76 (2009): 39– 46. Chapter 10 is a slightly revised version of the opening address given to the International Congress of the Association of Catholic Institutions of Philosophy, held in Mexico City on September 13–15, 2004. See pp. 31–52 of the proceedings, which were edited by Philippe Capelle and published in La Filosofia como Mediación (Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana, 2007). Thinking about Thinking ...