the official website of
JASON BELL
Fulbright professor and author of Cracking the Nazi Code
ABOUT ME
dr. jason bell
Jason Bell is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of New Brunswick. He has taught in the graduate program at the Higher Institute of Philosophy at the Katholieke Universteit Leuven in Belgium, at Vanderbilt University, and at Mount Allison University. He has served at the University of Göttingen in Germany as Fulbright Professor, as scholar-in-residence at Boston University, as Onderzoeksfonds Research Fellow at the Husserl Archives-Leuven, and as d’Alzon Fellow at Assumption university. He was awarded the doctorate in philosophy at Vanderbilt University.
Courses regularly taught
Phil 1201 Ethics of Life and Death
Phil 3306 Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and the Roots of Postmodernism
Phil 4401 Kant
Phil 4402 Hegel
Phil 4434 Husserl’s Pure Phenomenology
CHAPTERS EDITED IN BOOKS
- “Whitehead and Kant at Copenhagen,” co-authored with Seshu Iyengar (UNB student), in Whitehead at Harvard, Edinburgh University Press (in press, forthcoming January 2020)
- “Phenomenology’s Inauguration in the American Curriculum in Winthrop Bell’s 1927 Harvard Course” in The Reception of Husserlian Phenomenology in North America, Springer Press, 2019
- “Intellectual and Ethical Inhibition: A Meeting of Pragmatism and Phenomenology,” in Phenomenology for the Twenty-First Century, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
- “On Four Originators of Transatlantic Phenomenology: Josiah Royce, Edmund Husserl, William Hocking, Winthrop Bell,” Fordham University Press, 2014
- “Thomas Aquinas and the Origins of Phenomenology” (“Thomas von Aquin und die Anfänge der Phänomenologie,”) in the Edith Stein Jahrbuch, Internationale Edith Stein Institut Würzburg, Germany, 2012
- “Royce’s Business Ethics,” in American and European Values, Cambridge Scholars Press, U.K.
- “Royce and Nietzsche on Individual and Communal Duties” (“Royce e Nietzsche: Individualita Affermativà e Doveri Comunitari,”) in Nietzsche e l’America, Edizioni ETS Pisa (Italy)
- “Attention,” encyclopedia entry in The Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, Routledge, 2007
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
- “Lotze’s System Σ: An Inspiration for Pragmatic ‘Internal and External Meaning of Ideas’ and Phenomenological ‘Intentionality’?” accepted for publication, Phänomenologische Forschungen (in press, forthcoming 2020)
- “Loyalty to Philosophy” accepted for publication, The Pluralist, 15.2, (in press, forthcoming 2020)
- “On Husserl’s ca. 1890 ‘Peirce Manuscript’ and his reading of Peirce”, accepted for publication, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, forthcoming
- “Husserl’s ca. 1890 ‘Peirce Manuscript,” ed., with Thomas Vongehr, accepted for publication, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, forthcoming
- “Husserl’s 1912 Seminar on Hermann Lotze,” (“Seminar-Arbeiten über Lotze’s ‘Logik’”) ed., with Catharina Bonnemann, accepted for publication, Husserl Studies, forthcoming
- “The Birth of American Phenomenology in Josiah Royce’s New Phenomenology: Reflections on the 1878-1880 Thought Diary in dialogue with Husserl and Pragmatism,” accepted for publication, The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, forthcoming
- “Pure and Applied Trope Theory,” ‘Keynote Author,’ co-authored with Seshu Iyengar (UNB student), Discipline Filosofiche, XXX, 1, 2020, in the special edition: “Realism, Pragmatism, Naturalism. The Metamorphosis of Phenomenology in North America,” ed. Danilo Manca and Antonio Nunziante, forthcoming
- “On the Discovery of Two New Manuscripts by Edmund Husserl,” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 25.3, 2012
- “Einiges über Aufgabe und historische Stellung der Logischen Untersuchungen,” editor of a newly discovered manuscript by Edmund Husserl; The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 25.3, 2012
- “The Task and Historical Position of the Logical Investigations,” co-translation of manuscript by Edmund Husserl; The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 25.3, 2012
- “Investigating Husserl’s Newly Discovered Manuscript, ‘On the Task and Historical Position of the Logical Investigations,” co-authored; The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 25.3, 2012
- “The Göttingen Four and the Exchange of North American and German Phenomenology,” Quaestiones Disputatae, 2012
- “The German Translation of Josiah Royce by Edmund Husserl’s Student Winthrop Pickard Bell: A Neglected Bridge of Pragmatic-Phenomenological Interpretation?” The Pluralist, 6:1, 2011
- “To the Tenth Generation: Homer’s Odyssey as Environmental Ethics,” Environmental Ethics, 32:1, 2010
- “The World and Its Selves: Josiah Royce and the Philosophy of Nature,” The Personalist Forum 15:1
- “The Laughing Animal: An Inquiry into the Ethical and Religious Implications of Humor,” Kinesis: Graduate Journal in Philosophy Vol. 30
EVENTS
- Sept. 26 -Mount Allison University virtual event
- Sept. 27 – Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society -Halifax, NS
- Sept. 28 – South Shore Genealogical Society –Lunenburg, NS
- Sept. 30 – Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia -Dartmouth, NS
- Oct. 2 – University of Toronto, Munk School -Toronto, ON
- Oct. 6- Dalhousie University, -Halifax, NS
- Oct. 11 – University of Calgary -Calgary, AL
- Oct. 17 -Simon Fraser University -Vancouver, BC
- Oct. 20 – Perfect Books -Ottawa, ON
- Oct. 26- Centre for Intelligence Studies, King’s College London
- Oct. 30 -Nuffield College, University of Oxford
- Nov. 2 -Waterstones Milton Keynes, upstairs, history dept
- Nov. 7 – (PRIVATE EVENT) Royal United Services Institute, Whitehall
- Nov. 8 -Emmanuel College, Cambridge University
- Nov. 15- Royal Holloway University of London