The Reception of Husserlian Phenomenology in North America

Dr. Michela Beatrice Ferri (1983) is faculty at the Holy Apostles College and Seminary (CT, U.S.A.) .  After obtaining a B.A. (2005) and a M.A. (2007) both in Philosophy, she earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2012 at the University of Milan (Italy), with a dissertation dedicated to the first reception of Edmund Husserl's thought in the United States of America. She has been visiting Ph.D. Student at the New School for Social Research in New York (2010) and at the Husserl-Archives in Leuven (2011). She has been visiting researcher at the CSTMS of the University of California Berkeley (2014). Her researches concentrate on the reception of Husserlian Phenomenology in Italy and in the United States of America, on the history of Phenomenology, on Phenomenological Aesthetics, on Modern and Contemporary Aesthetics, on the dialogue between Philosophy, Visual Arts, Architecture, and Cultural Studies, on Aesthetics of the Sacred Art and on Christian Iconography, on Jewish Studies with afocus on history of the Holocaust.

 Dr. Carlo Ierna is currently lecturer in Modern Philosophy at the University of Groningen and the Radboud University Nijmegen, and has recently also been affiliated with the Free University of Amsterdam as well as having been a member of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of the Sciences (2017). After completing his PhD (2009) and a postdoc (2012) at the Husserl-Archives Leuven, he obtained a prestigious Dutch NWO VENI grant to work on the ideal of “Philosophy as Science” in the School of Brentano (2012-2016). He has been visiting fellow at Harvard University (2014) and visiting researcher at the Brentano Archives Graz (2014). His recent work concentrates on the School of Brentano, early phenomenology, and Gestalt psychology, with a focus on symbolic intentionality and the philosophy of mathematics.