Biography
Dr. Thomas Byrne received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Husserl Archives in KU Leuven in 2018. He was previously an Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University, before joining UIUC in 2023 as a Research Assistant Professor. As a classically trained phenomenologist, his research focuses on the lived experience of the individual. His previous publications have specifically explored the lived experience of communication, emotions, and history. He has been invited to give talks on four continents and his work has been translated into numerous languages.
Highlighted Publications
Chapters in Books
2023. Introduction. In: Rethinking Resistance: Subversion in an Age of Dissent. Ed. Thomas Byrne and Mario Wenning. Bloomsbury: London.
2023. A Phenomenology of Vaccine Resistance: Diagnosing the Crisis of the Sciences in the Age of Covid-19. With Tarun Kattuma. In: Rethinking Resistance: Subversion in an Age of Dissent. Ed. Thomas Byrne and Mario Wenning. Bloomsbury: London.
Recent Publications
Selected Articles in Journals
2019. Husserl's Early Genealogy of the Number System. Meta 2, 402-429.
2020. Introduction: Roman Ingarden's Philosophy Reconsidered. Horizon 9(2), 489-494.
2022. It: Husserl on Impersonal Propositions. Horizon 101, 18-30.
2022. The Origin of the Phenomenology of Attention. Research in Phenomenology 52, 425-441.
2023. Husserl’s Other Phenomenology of Feelings: Approval, Value, Truth. Husserl Studies. In Press.