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Dr. Thomas Byrne received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Husserl Archives in KU Leuven in 2018. He was previously an Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University, before joining UIUC in 2023 as a Research Assistant Professor. As a classicaly trained phenomenologist, his research focuses on the lived experience of the individual. His previous publications have specificallly explored the lived experience of communication, emotions, and history. He has been invited to give talks on four continents and his work has been translated into numerous languages.

Selected Articles in Journals

• 2023. The Origin of the Phenomenology of Instincts. Husserl Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10743-022-09316-2
• 2022. The Origin of the Phenomenology of Attention. Research in Phenomenology 52, 425-441.
• 2022. The Origin of the Phenomenology of Feelings. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 53 (4), 455-468.
• 2022. Husserl's Theory of Scientific Explanation: A Bolzian Unificationist Account. Husserl Studies 38, 171-196.
• 2022. Husserl's Semiotics of Gestures: Logical Investigations and its Revisions. Studia Phaenomenologica 22, 33-49.
• 2022. It: Husserl on Impersonal Propositions. Horizon 101, 18-30.
• 2022. The Meaning of Being: Hussserl on Existential Propositions as Predicative Propositions. Axiomathes 32, 123-139.
• 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.
• 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. A "Principally Unacceptable" Theory: Husserl's Rejection and Revision of his Philosophy of Meaning Intentions from the Logical Investigations. Studia Phaenomenologica 20, 357-378.
• 2020. Ingarden's Husserl: A Critical Assessment of the 1915 Review of the Second Edition of Logical Investigations. Horizon 9(2), 513-531.
• 2020. Introduction: Roman Ingarden's Philosophy Reconsidered. Horizon 9(2), 489-494.
• 2020. Husserl's 1901 and 1913 Philosophies of Perceptual Occlusion: Signitive, Empty, and Dark Intentions. Husserl Studies 36, 123-139.
• 2019. Husserl's Early Genealogy of the Number System. Meta 2, 402-429.
• 2018. The Evolution of Husserl's Semiotics: The Logical Investigations and its Revisions. Bulletin d' Analyse Phénoménologique 5(14), 1–23.
• 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.
• 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. 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.

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Book Reviews (in print or accepted)

• Drummond, John and Höffe, Otfried (Eds.). Husserl: German Perspectives. New York: Fordham University Press. Husserl Studies 36, pp. 87–93.