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Research Assistant Professor Thomas Byrne (pronounced: Burn) is a classically trained phenomenologist, having completed his PhD at The Husserl Archives at KU Leuven. He is the Head of the Laboratory for Phenomenological Research. His works have been translated into six languages and he has given sixteen invited talks on four continents. Since 2017, he has published 23 articles in journals such as the European Journal of Philosphy, The Journal of Consciousness Studies, and most prominently, Husserl Studies. 
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Professor Byrne's work employs Husserl's phenomenological method to primarily address the issues of feelings, signs, and history. At the same time, he has also developed phenomenological accounts concerning contemporary matters, such as ChatGPT, the Covid-19 pandemic, and ongoing poltical resistance movements.


Currently, Professor Byrne is developing the Laboratory for Phenomenological Research to execute novel qualitiative studies that employ phenomenology as a research methodology. 

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 The Right to Resist:
Philosophies of Dissent 
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While the idea of total revolution seems anachronistic today, there is increasing consensus about the importance of new forms of political, ethical, and aesthetic resistance. In the past, resistance was often motivated as a form of protest against specific institutions. Increasingly, dissent has become integrated into the fabric of modern life. This volume addresses new forms of resistance at a level that combines a rootedness in the philosophical tradition and a sensitivity to rethinking the possibility of emancipation in today's age. The work focuses on contemporary social and political philosophy from a perspective informed by critical theory.

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Recent works concerning:

ChatGPT

Perception

Science 

Meaning

Origins of Signs

Feelings 

Gestures

Vaccine hesitancy


Publications by topic:

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Phenomenology of Feelings

Husserl's Theory of Science

Concerning "Notes Towards a Theory of Attention and Interest"

Existential and Impersonal Propositions

Husserl's Semiotics

Revisions to the Logical Investigations