Faculty Profiles

Dr. Matthew Eugene Bower

Assoc Professor of Instruction — Philosophy

Comal 115E

phone: (512) 245-2285

meb211@txstate.edu

Biography and Education

Matt Bower is Associate Instructional Professor in Philosophy at Texas State University. Dr. Bower earned his PhD from the University of Memphis in 2013 and his BA from Beloit College in 2007.

Research Interests

Dr. Bower's research primarily concerns 19th and 20th century European philosophy and philosophy of mind. He has published several articles on Edmund Husserl's genetic phenomenology as well as on the philosophy of perception, drawing on the ideas of classical phenomenologists like Husserl.

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