CRITICAL NOTICES AND BOOK REVIEWS
Professor Dermot Moran
Updated 19 May 2011
A. CRITICAL NOTICES
1. “Ethics and Selfhood: A Critique”. Critical Notice of James Richard Mensch, Ethics and Selfhood. Alterity and the Phenomenology of Obligation (Albany, NY: SUNY Pr., 2003),’ in International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 11. No 1 (Feb. 2006), pp. 95-107.
2. ‘Adventures of the Reduction: Jacques Taminiaux, The Metamorphoses of Phenomenological Reduction,’ critical notice of Jacques Taminiaux, The Metamorphoses of Phenomenological Reduction, The Aquinas Lecture 2004 (Marquette U. P., 2004), in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 80, no. 2 (spring 2006), pp. 283-293.
3. Review of Alfredo Ferrarin, Hegel and Aristotle (Cambridge U. P., 2001), Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain Nos. 51/52 (2005), pp. 120-126.
4. Review of Steve Galt Crowell, Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning. Paths Toward Transcendental Phenomenology, in European Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2004), pp. 414-420.
5. Review of Daniel C. Dennett, Kinds of Minds (Basic Books, 1996) in Mind Vol. 109 No. 436 (Oct. 2000), pp. 883 - 890.
6. “New Books on Merleau-Ponty,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies Vol. 7 No. 3 (October 1999), pp. 393-402.
7. “Expounding Eriugena,” Irish Historical Studies, Vol. XXXI No. 122 (November 1998), pp. 247-258.
8. “Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Mathematics: Husserl and Realism in Mathematics,” Philosophical Studies Vol. XXXI (Dublin, 1986). pp. 361 – 365.
B. BOOK REVIEWS:
1. Review of Sarah Borden Sharkey, Thine Own Self. Individuality in Edith Stein’s Later Writings (Catholic U. of America Pr., 2010) in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=21130
2. Review of David R. Cerbone, Understanding Phenomenology (Acumen, 2006), in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2007.01.08), http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=8484.
3. Review of Lester Embree et al, eds, The Encyclopedia of Phenomenology (Kluwer, 1997), in Intentional Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 13 No 1 (Feb 2005), pp. 134-36.
4. Review of William Hamrick, Kindness and the Good Society, Connections of the Heart (Albany, NY: SUNY Pr., 2002) in International Journal of Philosophical Studies, forthcoming.
5. Review of Thomas Duddy, A History of Irish Thought (Routledge, 2002) in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2003.01.09) http://ndpr.icaap.org/content/archives/2003/1/moran-duddy.html
6. Review of R. Small, ed. A Hundred Years of Phenomenology: Perspectives On a Philosophical Tradition (Ashgate, 2001), in Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 41 No. 3 (July 2003), pp. 422-423.
7. Review of Cyril O’Regan, Gnostic Return in Modernity and Gnostic Apocalypse. Jacob Boehme's Haunted Narrative (State University of New York Press, 2002), in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 1 May 2002, pp. 1-6. http://ndpr.icaap.org/content/archives/2002/5/moran-oregan.html
8. Review of Robert Sokolowski, Introduction to Phenomenology (Cambridge U. P., 2000), in Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology Vol. 32 No. 1 (January 2001), pp. 109 ‑ 112.
9. Review of Michael Herren, ed., Iohannis Scotti Eriugenae Carmina (Dublin: Institute for Advanced Studies, 1993) in Peritia, ed. D. Ó Cróinín Vol. 12 (1998), pp. 400 - 403.
10. Review of Michael Herren, ed., Iohannis Scotti Eriugenae Carmina (Dublin: Institute for Advanced Studies, 1993) in Irish Theological Quarterly Vol. 64 No. 3 (Autumn 1999), pp. 321 – 323.
11. Review of R. S. Woolhouse, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz. The Concept of Substance in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, in the British Journal of the History of Philosophy. Vol. 6 No. 3 (October 1998), pp. 482-486.
12. Review of William Lyons, Approaches to Intentionality, International Journal of Philosophical Studies Vol. 5 No. 3 (October 1997), pp. 471-476.
13. Review of Andrew Benjamin, The Plural Event. Descartes, Hegel, Heidegger in Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain. No. 34 (Autumn/Winter 1996), pp. 53-59.
14. Review of Willemien Otten, The Anthropology of Johannes Scottus Eriugena, in Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies Vol. 69 No. 2 (April 1994), pp. 543-545
15. Review of J. J. O’Meara, Eriugena in The Review of Metaphysics (Sept. 1990), pp. i. 156-157.
16. Review of J.J. O’Meara, ed., Eriugena. Periphyseon (On the Division of Nature) in Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies Vol. 65 No. 1 (Jan. 1990), pp. 180-181.
17. Review of J. Dillon and G. Morrow, trans., Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Parmenides (1987) in The Irish Philosophical Journal Vol. 6 No. 1 (Belfast, 1989), pp. 164-166.
18. Review of Richard Kearney, The Wake of Imagination in Irish Philosophical Journal Vol. 6 No. 2 (1989), pp. 311 – 314.
19. Review of Analecta Husserliana Vol. XVII (1984), Phenomenology of Life in a Dialogue Between Chinese and Occidental Philosophy, in Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology Vol. 18 No.1 (1987), pp. 90 – 92.
20. Review of Richard Kearney, Modern Movement in European Philosophy, in The Furrow Vol. XXXVIII No. 7 (July 1987), pp. 478 – 479.
21. Review of R.S. Cohen, M. Martin, and M. Westphal, eds, Studies on the Philosophy of J.N. Findlay in Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology Vol. 17 No. 2 (May 1986), pp. 200-201.
22. Review of P. Connerton, The Tragedy of Enlightenment, in Philosophical Studies (Dublin) Vol. XXXI (1986), pp. 460-464.
23. “The Poets of Munster,” The Irish Literary Supplement (Spring, 1986), p. 20.
24. Review of Richard Kearney, Poétique du possible. Phénoménologie Herméneutique de la Figuration in Philosophical Studies Vol. XXX1 (Dublin, 1986) pp.555-557.
25. Review of R. Kearney, Dialogues with Contemporary Continental Thinkers, in Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology Vol. 16 No. 3 (Oct. 1985), pp. 307-310.
26. “The Protestant Consciousness. The Field Day Pamphlets,” The Irish Literary Supplement (Fall, 1985), pp. 1, 24.
27. Review of Merold Westphal, History and Truth in Hegel’s Phenomenology, in Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain No. 11 (Spring/Summer 1985), pp. 21-24.
28. Review of Analecta Husserliana, Vol. XIV (1983), The Phenomenology of Man and the Human Condition, in Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology Vol. 15 No. 3 (Oct. 1984), pp. 314-317.
29. Review of Q. Lauer, Hegel’s Philosophy of God, in Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain No. 9 (Spring/Summer 1984), pp. 33-36.
30. Review of E. Brian Titley, Church, State and the Control of Schooling in Ireland (Gill & Macmillan), The Irish Press, 14th January 1984, p. 9.
31. Review of Nathan Scott, Mirrors of Man in Existentialism, Hibernia National Review 3 May 1979.
32. Review of John Maguire, Marx’s Theory of Politics, Hibernia National Review, 1 March 1979
33. Review of Agnes Heller, Renaissance Man, Hibernia National Review 19 April 1979