California phenomenology

Jeffrey Yoshimi

Clinton Tolley

David W. Smith

pp. 365-387

in: Michela B. Ferri, Carlo Ierna (eds), The reception of Husserlian phenomenology in North America, Berlin, Springer, 2019

Abstract

We survey the development of "California Phenomenology", both as a philosophical movement originating with Dagfinn Føllesdal's formulation of a Fregean, analytic reading of Husserl in the late 1950s and 1960s, and as an evolving network of philosophers working throughout California, who have met under the auspices of several groups in a more or less continuous way since that time. We trace the history of these groups in detail, provide an overview of debates that occurred between "West Coast" approaches to Husserlian phenomenology and other approaches, and survey the broad panorama of more recent work.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund

Frege Gottlob

Føllesdal Dagfinn