Jacob Martin Rump, MA, PhD

Associate Professor

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JacobRump@creighton.edu
College of Arts and Sciences
Philosophy
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DHHC - Dowling Hall/Humanities Center - 116

Jacob Martin Rump, MA, PhD

Associate Professor

Jacob Rump is a philosopher whose research lies at the intersection of epistemology, theories of meaning and language, and intentionality, with a special interest in artificial intelligence. From an historical perspective, he specializes in the phenomenological tradition and its intersections with the history of analytic philosophy. His research and teaching bring neglected insights from these traditions into dialogue with contemporary concerns, in philosophy and in interdisciplinary contexts. 

For an accurate and up-to-date list of publications and research, see https://philpeople.org/profiles/jacob-martin-rump

Teaching Interests

  • Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Philosophy of AI, 19th-20th C. European Philosophy (esp. Phenomenology), Wittgenstein, History of Analytic Philosophy

Research Focus

Philosophy of Language, Theory of Meaning, Epistemology, Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, 19th-20th C. European Philosophy, History of Philosophy (incl. History of Analytic), Wittgenstein, Ethics

Department

Philosophy

Position

Associate Professor

Books

  • Making Sense of Significance: Intentionality, Content, and Meaning in the Age of AI (philosophy monograph in progress) 2023

Articles

  • Reflection and Reduction beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide
    The Husserlian Mind (Routledge) 2020
  • Synthesis
    The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Ed. De Santis, Hopkins, and Majolino (New York: Routledge) , p. 376-88. 2020
  • From Word to Flesh: Embodied Racism and the New Politics, Journal of Religion and Society 2020
  • 'Husserlian Phenomenology, Rule-following, and Primitive Normativity
    Language and Phenomenology, Ed. C. Engelland. New York: Routledge 2020
  • Not How the World is, but That It Exists: Wittgenstein on the Mystical and the Meaningful
    Mysticism and Meaning: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Three Pines Press/ University of Hawaii) 2019
  • Continental Philosophy Review
    "Making Sense of the Lived Body and the Lived World: Meaning and Presence in Husserl, Derrida and Noe"
    51 (2), p. 141-67 2018
  • Metodo: international Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy
    "Meaning, Experience, and the Modern Self: The Phenomenology of Spontaneous Sense in Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway"
    6 (1), p. 317-55 2018
  • Humana.Mente
    “On the Use and Abuse of Teleology for Life: Intentionality, Naturalism, and Meaning Rationalism in Husserl and Millikan”  
    34, p. 41-75 2018
  • Midwest Studies in Philosophy
    "The Epistemic Import of Affectivity: A Husserlian Account"
    Vol. 41: Phenomenology of Affective Life, p. 82-104 2017
  • Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
    "Phenomenology, Historical Significance, and the Limits of Representation: Perspectives on Carr's Experience and History"
    37 (2), p. 401-26 2016
  • Danish Yearbook of Philosophy
    "History as Soil and Sediment: Geological Tropes of Historicity in Heidegger, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty"
    Vol. 48-49, p. 139-52 2016
  • Springer
    "Kant, Husserl, and the Case for Non-conceptual Content"
    Husserl and Classical German Philosophy (edited volume), p. 293-308 2014
  • Research in Phenomenology
    "Knowledge, Temporality, and the Movement of History" (review article on Soren Olesen's Transcendental History)
    44 (3), p. 441-52 2014
  • Sartre Studies International
    "Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, and the 'Structuralist Activity' of Sartre's Dialectical Reason"
    17 (2), p. 1-15 2011

Publications

  • Walter de Gruyter
    Co-translation (from German) of Theodor Elsenhans' "Phenomenology, Psychology, Epistemology" (Kant Studien review essay on Husserl's Ideas I ), with Andrea Staiti and Evan Clarke
    Sources of Husserl's Ideas I (Ed. Staiti and Clarke) 2018
  • Phenomenology and Mind
    Translation (from French) of Valerie Kokoszka's "Phenomenological Habitus and Social Creativity"
    Vol. 6: Mind, Habits, and Social Reality 2014
  • Contributions of the Ludwig Wittgenstein Society
    "The Transcendental 'Foundation' of Meaning in Experience: A Reading of Wittgenstein's On Certainty"
    Vol. XIX: Epistemology: Contexts, Values, Disagreement. Ed. C. Jaeger and W. Loeffler. 2011
  • Journal of Nietzsche Studies
    Translation (from German) of Nicolai Nicodemo's "Volker Gerhardt: Friedrich Nietzsche" (review essay)
    Issue 42 2011

Editing and Reviews

  • Husserl Studies
    Review of Heinamaa, Hartimo, and Miettinen (eds), Phenomenology and the Transcendental (Routledge 2014)
    32 (3) 2016
  • Continental Philosophy Review
    Review of Steven Crowell, Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger (Cambridge 2013)
    47 (3-4) 2014
  • Journal of the History of Philosophy
    Review of Frank Ankersmit, Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation (Cornell 2012)
    51 (4) 2013

Presentations

  • "Experience, Judgment, and the Limits of Language: Sense and Significance in Husserl's Transcendental Logic" Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (mainprogram), Denver, Colorado 2019
  • "From Linguistic Analysis to Life-Projects: Husserl's Account of Meaning as "Bridge" for the Analytic-Continental Divide," The Husserl Circle, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico 2018
  • "Beyond the 'Logical Productions of Sense': Embodiment, Understanding, and Teleology" Workshop in Phenomenological Philosophy, University of California Merced 2018
  • "Embodiment, Experience, and the (Lived) Space of Meaning: Some Reflections from Phenomenology and Enactivist Philosophy of Mind" You Are Here: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Space, Place, and Embodiment, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 2018
  • "From Linguistic Analysis to Life-Projects: Husserl's Account of Meaning as "Bridge" for the Analytic-Continental Divide," Philosophy Department Papers in Progress Presentation, Creighton University 2018
  • "Husserl on Affectivity, Motivation, and Meaning," Workshop in Phenomenological Philosophy, Fordham University, New York, New York 2017
  • "Motivations Beyond Words: Affect Scripts and Embodied Meaning," philoSOPHIA: Society for Continental Feminism, 11th Annual Meeting: Affect and Social Justice, Boca Raton, Florida 2017