Richard Cobb-Stevens

Richard Cobb-Stevens (born 13 March 1935 in Cambridge, MA., USA; died on 6 July 2018, Carlisle, MA) was an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus at Boston College. ^[1]

An expert in American pragmatism, continental philosophy, and phenomenology, especially Edmund Husserl and the philosophy of mathematics, Cobb-Stevens was author of three books including James and Husserl and Husserl and Analytic Philosophy. ^{[2] [3]}

He received his A.B. from Boston College in 1958, his Th.L from Université catholique de Louvain in 1966, and his Ph.D. from the University of Paris in 1971. Cobb-Stevens later served as Department Chair of the Philosophy Department at Boston College. At the time of his death he was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Boston College.

The festschrift Phenomenology in a New Key: Between Analysis and History: Essays in Honor of Richard Cobb-Stevens was published by Springer in 2015. ^{[4] [5]}

References

1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 April 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
2. Sokolowski, Robert (1992). Cobb-Stevens, Richard; Drummond, John J. (eds.). "Review Essay: Husserl and Analytic Philosophy and Husserlian Intentionality and Non-Foundational Realism". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 52 (3): 725–730. doi:10.2307/2108219. ISSN   0031-8205.
3. Soffer, Gail (February 1993). "Book review". Husserl Studies. 10 (1): 43–49. doi:10.1007/BF01420548. ISSN   0167-9848.
4. Bookworm (1 July 2015). "In honor of Richard Cobb-Stevens". BC Bookmarks. Retrieved 30 January 2026.
5. "Jeffrey Bloechl and Nicholas de Warren (Eds.): Phenomenology in a New Key: Between Analysis and History, Essays in Honor of Richard Cobb-Stevens – Phenomenological Reviews". 22 March 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2026.