Dr. Matthew Eugene Bower

  • Assoc Professor of Instruction at Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2026

  • Bower, M. E. (n.d.). Husserl on Perception’s Inadequacy: A Critique. Phenomenological Studies, 10, 179–213. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.2143/EPH.10.0.0000000

2025

  • Bower, M. E. (2025). Genetic phenomenology. In Encyclopedia of Phenomenology. Springer. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47253-5_148-1

2023

  • 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

2021

  • 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

2020

  • 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
  • Bower, M. E. (n.d.). Husserl on Hullucination: A Conjunctive Reading. Journal for the History of Philosophy.

2019

  • Bower, M. E. (2019). Daubert’s naive realist challenge to Husserl. Grazer Philosophische Studien, 96(2), 211–243. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/18756735-000072

2018

  • Bower, M. E., & Fischer, B. (2018). Categorical Desires and the Badness of Animal Death. The Journal of Value Inquiry, 52, 97–111.

2017

  • Bower, M. E. (2017). Husserl on perception: A non-representationalism that nearly was. European Journal of Philosophy, 25(4), 1768–1790. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12261
  • Bower, M. E. (2017). Levinas’s philosophy of perception. Southern Journal of Philosophy, 55(4), 383–414. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12260

2016

  • Bower, M. E. (2016). Radicalizing the phenomenology of basic minds with Levinas and Merleau-Ponty. In J. Murillo, M. García-valdecasas, & N. Barrett (Eds.), Biology and Subjectivity: Contributions to a Non-Reductive Neuroscience (pp. 131–150). Dordrecht: Springer. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30502-8_9
  • Bower, M. E. (2016, February 13). Phenomenological Reviews. Retrieved from http://reviews.ophen.org/2016/02/13/susi-ferrarello-husserls-ethics-practical-intentionality/

2015

  • Bower, M. E. (2015). Genetic phenomenology, cognitive development, and the embodied/extended mind. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 22(9–10), 83–108.
  • Bower, M. E. (2015). Developing open intersubjectivity: On the interpersonal shaping of experience. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 455–474. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-014-9346-2
  • Bower, M. E. (2015). Husserl’s concept of the Vorwelt and the possible annihilation of the world. Research in Phenomenology, 45(1), 108–126. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341304
  • Bower, M. E. (2015). [Review of The Phenomenology of Embodied Subjectivity, by R. T. Jensen & D. Moran]. Husserl Studies. Dordrecht: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10743-014-9162-0
  • Patočka, J., Učník, L., Chvatík, I., & Williams, A. (Eds.). (2015). Husserl’s subjectivism and the call for an asubjective phenomenology. In I., M. E. Bower, & K. Maly (Trans.), Asubjective Phenomenology: Jan Patoka’s Project in the Broader Context of His Work (pp. 17–40). Nordhausen: Traugott Bautz.
  • Patočka, J., Učník, L., Chvatík, I., & Williams, A. (Eds.). (2015). Epoche and reduction: Some observations. In I., M. E. Bower, & K. Maly (Trans.), Asubjective Phenomenology: Jan Patoka’s Project in the Broader Context of His Work (pp. 41–53). Nordhausen: Traugott Bautz.

2014

  • Bower, M. E., & Caminada, E. (Eds.). (2014). Habit: Second Nature and Social Reality. Phenomenology and Mind (Vol. 6).
  • Bower, M. E. (2014). Affectively driven perception: Towards a non-representational phenomenology. Husserl Studies, 30(3), 225–245. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10743-014-9152-2
  • Bower, M. E. (2014). Husserl’s theory of instincts as a theory of affection. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 45(2), 133–147. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2014.919121
  • Bower, M. E. (2014). Husserl’s motivation and method for phenomenological reconstruction. Continental Philosophy Review, 47(2), 135–152. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-014-9291-3
  • Gallagher, S., & Bower, M. E. (2014). Making enactivism even more embodied? Avant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies, 5(2), 232–247. https://doi.org/10.12849/50202014.0109.0011

2013

  • Bower, M. E., & Gallagher, S. (2013). Bodily affects as prenoetic elements in enactive perception. Phenomenology and Mind, 4, 78–93.
  • Bower, M. E. (Trans.). (2013). The objectivity of the senses. Phenomenology and Mind (Vol. 4, pp. 16–27).