Biographical note

Sara Heinämaa is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä and an Academy Professor (2017–2021). She specializes in classical and contemporary phenomenology, existentialism, and the history of philosophy, and has published extensively in these fields, especially on normativity, emotion, embodiment, and intersubjectivity. She is co-author of Birth, Death, and Femininity (Indiana UP, 2010), and author of Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and has co-edited several volumes, including Contemporary Phenomenologies of Normativity (Routledge, 2022), Phenomenology as Critique (Routledge 2022), and Phenomenology and the Transcendental (Routledge, 2014) and Consciousness (Springer, 2007). 

Anthony J. Steinbock is Professor of Philosophy, at Stony Brook University and Director, of the Phenomenology Research Center. He works in the areas of phenomenology, social ontology, aesthetics, and religious philosophy. His publications include works on generative phenomenology, religious experience, and emotions. He is the author of six books, most recently, Knowing by Heart: Loving as Participation and Critique (Northwestern University Press, 2021) and is the translator of Edmund Husserl’s Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Synthesis (Kluwer, 2001). He is Editor-in-Chief, of Continental Philosophy Review, and General Editor, of Northwestern University Press “SPEP” Series.

Andrew D. Barrette is currently an Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Philosophy Department at Boston College. He wrote his dissertation on Edmund Husserl’s analyses of inquiry and history at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. During that research, he studied at the Husserl-Archives in Leuven, first as a Fulbright Scholar, then again as an International Research Fellow. He then did post-doctorate work at the Lonergan Institute and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, both at Boston College.