Rodney K. B. Parker is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dominican University College in Ottawa, Canada. He has previously held positions at the Universität Paderborn and the University of Western Ontario. He received his PhD in 2013 with his dissertation Husserl's Transcendental Idealism and the Problem of Solipsism. Since then, he has published numerous translations and articles on the history of the phenomenological movement. He is also the co-editor of The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 16: Phenomenology of Emotions. Systematical and Historical Perspectives (2018) and Studia Phaenomenologica 15: Early Phenomenology (2015).

Chapter 1. Introduction, Rodney K.B. Parker

Chapter 2. Hermann Lotze and the Genesis of Husserl's Early Philosophy (1886-1901), Denis Fisette

Chapter 3. The "Offence of Any and All Ready-Made Givenness". Natorp's Critique of Husserl's Ideas for a Pure Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Burt Hopkins

Chapter 4. The Question of Reality. Scheler's Critique of Husserl in 'Idealism - Realism', Susi Gottlöber

Chapter 5. Evidence Based Phenomenology and Certainty Based Phenomenology. Moritz Geiger's Reaction to Idealism in Ideas I, Michele Averchi

Chapter 6. Bogged Down in Ontologism and Realism. The Phenomenology of Adolf Reinach, Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray

Chapter 7. Edith Stein on a Different Motive that led Husserl to Transcendental Idealism, Daniele De Santis

Chapter 8. The Question of Reality. A Postscript to Schuhmann and Smith's Article on Daubert's Reception of Husserl's Ideas I, Daniel Sobota

Chapter 9. Down to a Truer Approximation of Reality. Hedwig Conrad-Martius' Critical Alternative to Idealism, Ronny Miron

Chapter 10. The Key to the First Phenomenological Schism. A Misunderstanding of the Husserlian Account of Ideal Objects, Mariano Crespo

Chapter 11. Heidegger's Appropriation of Husserl's Decisive Discoveries, Daniel Dahlstrom

Chapter 12. The Reception of Husserl's Phenomenology in the philosophies of Hartmann Sesemann, Dalius Jonkus

Chapter 13. Gustav Shpet's Implicit Phenomenological Idealism, Thomas Nemeth