Izchak Miller

Izchak Miller (September, 1935 – April 1, 1994) was a philosopher and author, known, among other things, for his scholarly writings on Edmund Husserl and his contributions to Husserlian phenomenology.

Miller was a coordinator of the Cognitive Science Research Group at the University of Pennsylvania from 1985 to 1986, and was an assistant professor in the Philosophy department from 1982 to 1988. He later joined the faculty of Yeshiva University in 1993, and also taught at Stanford University, UCLA, Brandeis University, and the MIT, where he held his first professorship from 1973 to 1977.

Miller received both his baccalaureate and doctoral degrees in philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles. He belonged to a school of phenomenology called West Coast Phenomenology, along with contemporaries Dagfinn Føllesdal, Ronald McIntyre and David Woodruff Smith.

Miller died of cancer in New York City on April 1, 1994, at the age of 58.

Notable works Miller, Izchak: Husserl's Account of our Temporal Awareness, Husserl, Intentionality and Cognitive Science, Hubert Dreyfus (ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1982, pp. 125–146 Miller, Izchak: Husserl, perception, and temporal awareness. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, January 1984; , , Miller, Izchak: Perceptual Reference, Synthese, Vol. 61, No. 1, The Intentionality of Mind, Part I, October 1984, pp. 35–59 Miller, Izchak: Husserl on the Ego, Topoi Volume 5, Issue 2, September 1986, pp. 157–162 Miller, Izchak: Husserl and Sartre on the Self, The Monist Vol. 69, No. 4, Intentionality, October, 1986, pp. 534–545