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A colleague has called The Felt Meanings of the World the most important work in phenomenology yet written by an American. I tend to agree. International Philosophy Quarterly Quentin Smith's book is an example of what a philosophical book ought to be; genuinely original, thoroughly informed, as clearly written as its subject-matter allows, well organized, and concerned with a topic that really matters. Nous This book is of the biggest originality . . . . The author has an immense grasp of historical and modern philosophers, and a rare ability to construct good arguments for a novel position. These two abilities are seldom conjoined. --Henry Teloh, Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University . . . The Felt Meaning of the World . . . is a highly original philosophy combined with a deep criticism of the philosophical mainstream that is enamored of reason and rationality, and depreciates feeling. Dr. Smith's 'metaphysics of feeling' . . . humanizes philosophy while maintaining disciplined thought. --Gordon G. Globus Despite the book's sweep, the author evinces a wide-ranging knowledge of recent and classical literature. He argues in detail and in depth . . . --William E. Vallicella, Department of Philosophy, University of Dayton

A colleague has called TheFelt Meanings of the World the most important work in phenomenology yet writtenby an American. I tend to agree.""—International Philosophy Quarterly

. . . The Felt Meaning of the World . . . is a highly original philosophy combined with a deep criticism of the philosophical mainstream that is enamored of reason and rationality, and depreciates feeling. Dr. Smith's 'metaphysics of feeling' . . . humanizes philosophy while maintaining disciplined thought. --Gordon G. Globus A colleague has called The Felt Meanings of the World the most important work in phenomenology yet written by an American. I tend to agree. International Philosophy Quarterly Despite the book's sweep, the author evinces a wide-ranging knowledge of recent and classical literature. He argues in detail and in depth . . . --William E. Vallicella, Department of Philosophy, University of Dayton Quentin Smith's book is an example of what a philosophical book ought to be; genuinely original, thoroughly informed, as clearly written as its subject-matter allows, well organized, and concerned with a topic that really matters. Nous This book is of the biggest originality . . . . The author has an immense grasp of historical and modern philosophers, and a rare ability to construct good arguments for a novel position. These two abilities are seldom conjoined. --Henry Teloh, Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University

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Quentin Smith is the 2002 honorary member of Phi Betta Kappa (one honorary member is selected each year) He has been the editor of Philo: Journal of the Society for Humanist Philosophers since 2001 and the philosophy editor for Prometheus Books since 2002. He was the only philosopher selected for an award by the American Council of Learned Societies in 1996, and was awarded $20,000. He has been a full professor in the Philosophy Department, Western Michigan University since 1995. He was the Lillian Pierson Lovelace Visiting Professor at Antioch College from 1991 through 1993. He received the 1986 Rockefeller Award for the best philosophical work by an academically unaffiliated philosopher, for the article ""Problems with the New Tenseless Theory of Time"" the same award in 1984 for the article ""The Infinite Regress of Temporal Attributions.""

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