Thomas Byrne

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1308 W. Main St. | MC 228
Urbana, IL 61801

thbyrne@illinois.edu

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Research Assistant Professor

Biography

Thomas Byrne (pronounced: Burn) is a classically trained phenomenologist, having completed his PhD at The Husserl Archives at KU Leuven. His works have been translated into six languages and he has given invited talks on four continents. Since 2017, he has published over 20 articles in journals such as the European Journal of Philosophy, The Journal of Consciousness Studies, and most prominently, Husserl Studies.

Professor Byrne's work employs Husserl's phenomenological method to primarily address the issues of feelings, signs, and history. At the same time, he has also developed phenomenological accounts concerning contemporary matters, such as ChatGPT, the Covid-19 pandemic, and ongoing poltical resistance movements.

Highlighted Publications

Chapters in Books

2023. Introduction. In: Rethinking Resistance: Subversion in an Age of Dissent. Ed. Thomas Byrne and Mario Wenning. Bloomsbury: London.

2023. A Phenomenology of Vaccine Resistance: Diagnosing the Crisis of the Sciences in the Age of Covid-19. With Tarun Kattuma. In: Rethinking Resistance: Subversion in an Age of Dissent. Ed. Thomas Byrne and Mario Wenning. Bloomsbury: London.

Recent Publications

Selected Articles in Journals

2017. The Dawn of Pure Logical Grammar: Husserl’s Study of Inauthentic Judgments from ‘On the Logic of Signs’ as the Germ of the Fourth Logical Investigation. Studia Phaenomenologica 17, 285–308.

2017. Surrogates and Empty Intentions: Husserl’s On the Logic of Signs as the Blueprint for the First Logical Investigation. Husserl Studies 33(3), 211–227.

2017. Husserl’s Early Semiotics and Number Signs: Philosophy of Arithmetic through the Lens of “On the Logic of Signs (Semiotic)”. The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 48(4), 287–303.

2018. The Evolution of Husserl's Semiotics: The Logical Investigations and its Revisions. Bulletin d' Analyse Phénoménologique 5(14), 1–23.

2019. Husserl's Early Genealogy of the Number System. Meta 2, 402-429.

2020. Husserl's 1901 and 1913 Philosophies of Perceptual Occlusion: Signitive, Empty, and Dark Intentions. Husserl Studies 36, 123-139.

2020. Introduction: Roman Ingarden's Philosophy Reconsidered. Horizon 9(2), 489-494.

2020. Ingarden's Husserl: A Critical Assessment of the 1915 Review of the Second Edition of Logical Investigations. Horizon 9(2), 513-531.

2021. A "Principally Unacceptable" Theory: Husserl's Rejection and Revision of his Philosophy of Meaning Intentions from the Logical Investigations. Studia Phaenomenologica 20, 357-378.

2021. Smashing Husserl's Dark Mirror: Rectifying the Inconsistent Theory of Impossible Meanings and Signitive Substance from the Logical Investigations. Axiomathes 31, 127-144.

2021. Husserl's Theory of Signitive and Empty Intentions in Logical Investigations and its Revisions: Meaning Intentions and Perceptions. The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 52(1), 16-34.

2022. The Meaning of Being: Hussserl on Existential Propositions as Predicative Propositions. Axiomathes 32, 123-139.

2022. It: Husserl on Impersonal Propositions. Horizon 101, 18-30.

2022. Husserl's Semiotics of Gestures: Logical Investigations and its Revisions. Studia Phaenomenologica 22, 33-49.

2022. Husserl's Theory of Scientific Explanation: A Bolzian Unificationist Account. Husserl Studies 38, 171-196.

2022. The Origin of the Phenomenology of Feelings. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 53 (4), 455-468.

2022. The Origin of the Phenomenology of Attention. Research in Phenomenology 52, 425-441.

2023. The Origin of the Phenomenology of Instincts. Husserl Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10743-022-09316-2

2023. Husserl’s Other Phenomenology of Feelings: Approval, Value, Truth. Husserl Studies.

2024. The Dawn of the Phenomenology of Feelings. Philosophy Today.

2024. The Phenomenology of ChatGPT. The Journal of Consciousness Studies.

2024. Phenomenology is Explanatory. European Journal of Philosophy.