Essays on Aesthetic Genesis

Charlene Elsby is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, specializing in Ancient Philosophy and Realist Phenomenology. She has articles appearing in Quaestiones Disputatae and Logic and Logical Philosophy, along with several book chapters and contributions to popular culture and philosophy volumes. She is currently working on an analysis of the integration of Aristotelian concepts into the works of early phenomenologists.Aaron Massecar is an independent scholar and consultant living in Guelph, Canada. He is the author of Ethical Habits: A Peircean Perspective (Lexington Books, 2016) and numerous articles on Charles S. Peirce that have been published in journals such as The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society and Contemporary Pragmatism. He continues to research critical, reflective habit development and its effect on human performance.

• ForewordIntroductionCharlene Elsby and Aaron MassecarMajor Concepts1. On the Concept of Aesthetic GenesisCharlene Elsby, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne2. The Copernican Turn of Intentional BeingCharles Rodger, University of AlbertaHistorical Considerations3. Cartesian Soul: Embodiment and Phenomenology in the Wake of DescartesFelix ÓMurchadha, National University of Ireland, Galway and Ane Faugstad Aarø, University of Bergen 4. The Intentional Being of Justice and the ForeseenKimberly Baltzer-Jaray, Wilfrid Laurier University5. Mitscherling’s Reading of IngardenRobert Luzecky, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne6. Being that Can be Understood is (Not Just) Language: On Linguisticality and IntentionalityJason C. Robinson, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityContemporary Discussion7. Overcoming Husserl’s Mind-World Split: Jeff Mitscherling’s Aesthetic Genesis and the Birth of Consciousness Through IntentionalityAntonio Calcagno, King’s University College8. Artistic Creation: On Mitscherling and DylanPaul Fairfield, Queen’s University9. Our Connection to NatureSiby K. George, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay10. Intentionality and the New Copernican Revolution: Realist Phenomenology and the Extended Mind HypothesisAaron Massecar, Independent Scholar11. Perfect Empiricism: Mitscherling’s Aristotelian Phenomenology, the Logos, and The Problem of Ideal ObjectsConrad Hamilton, Université Paris VIII Saint-Denis12. A Relational Theory of TruthJoshua Boyce, University of TorontoAfterwordThe Problem with Being that Can be UnderstoodJeff Mitscherling, University of Guelph

The collection’s twelve essays aim and succeed in providing valuable analyses and further developments of Mitscherling’s key arguments. Essays on Aesthetic Genesis will be of greatest interest to phenomenologists, but also makes noteworthy contributions to central debates in the history of philosophy, current considerations in the philosophy of mind, and to contemporary readings of Continental philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, and Gadamer.... It explores and develops with scholarly integrity ideas presented in Mitscherling’s earlier book that seem both commonplace and commonly denied.