Profiles


Gina Zavota


Associate Professor, Undergraduate Coordinator

Education:

  • SUNY Stony Brook, Ph.D. 2003 Philosophy
  • Bergische Universitat, Wuppertal, Germany, DAAD Doctoral Fellowship 1999-2001, Philosophy
  • Hunter College, B.A. 1995 Mathematics
  • New York University, B.A. Philosophy & English Literature 1990
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Selected Publications

Books

  • Die Bernauer Manuskripte uber das Zeitbewusstsein (1917/1918) [translation of The Bernauer Manuscripts on Time-Consciousness], Husserliana XXXIII, by Edmund Husserl, Springer, forthcoming 2012.
  • Husserl: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, 5 vols., co-edited with Rudolf Bernet and Donn Welton, Routledge, 2005.
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    Articles

  • "The Idea of kosmos in Hellenistic Philosophy," in The Continuum Companion to Ancient Philosophy, ed. Sean D. Kirkland and Eric Sanday, Continuum, 2010.
  • "Shifting Professional Identities: Reflections on a Faculty Learning Community Experience," Learning Communities Journal, 1 (2009) (with David Dees et al.).
  • "The Importance of Number in Husserl's Early Theory of Time-Constitution," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 40 (2009), 188-206.
  • "The Neoplatonic and the Gothic: A Walk through Amiens Cathedral," pp. 59-76 in Jay Bregman and Melanie Mineo, eds., Platonism, Neoplatonism, and American Thought, University Press of the South, 2008.
  • "The Place of the Universe: The Union of Science and Philosophy in Copernicus' De Revolutionibus," pp. 181-192 in John Finamore, ed., Metaphysical Patterns in Platonism: Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern, University Press of the South, 2007.
  • "Living in the Moment: Husserl, Derrida and the Logic of the Now," 202-16 in Gary Banham, ed., Husserl and the Logic of Experience, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
  • "'The Origin of Geometry' and the Phenomenology of Number," vol II, pp. 236-49 in Rudolf Bernet, Donn Welton, and Gina Zavota, eds., Husserl: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Routledge, 2005.
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    CONTACT INFO
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