Faculty Profile for Dr. Matthew Eugene Bower

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Dr. Matthew Eugene Bower
Assoc Professor of Instruction — Philosophy
DERR 201
phone: (512) 245-2285

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Bower, M. E. (2023). Sociality and the minimal self: On Dan Zahavi’s “group-identification, collectivism, and perspectival autonomy.” Southern Journal of Philosophy, 61(1). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12532
  • Bower, M. E. (2023). Phenomenological Reduction and the Nature of Perceptual Experience. Husserl Studies, 39. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s10743-023-09324-w
  • Bower, M. E. (2021). “Do we visually experience objects’ occluded parts?”. Canadian Journal of Philosophy. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/can.2021.22
  • Bower, M. E. (2021). Bower, M. (2021).  “Is perception inadequate? Husserl’s case for non-sensory objectual phenomenology in perception.” Journal of Philosophy. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12705
  • Bower, M. E. (2020). Finding a way into genetic phenomenology. In The Subject(s) of Phenomenology. Springer. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29357-4_10

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Director’s Memorial Prize for Best Paper by a Junior Scholar, Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology (awared at the annual Husserl Circle meeting). May 2019

Selected Service Activities

Reviewer / Referee
Philosophical Psychology
2017-Present
Reviewer / Referee
Continental Philosophy Review
2017-Present
Session moderator (talks by S. Gallagher and J. Reynolds)
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
October 2017-Present
Member
Undergraduate Philosophy Committee
September 2017-Present
Member
Non-tenure-line Faculty Committee
September 2017-Present