ABSTRACT
The expression ‘Phenomenology in Australasia’ can be used to designate any of the following activities undertaken by an Australasian philosopher: original phenomenological investigations and/or discoveries; the interpretation, exegesis and translation of classical phenomenological texts. In New Zealand, South African-born John Niemeyer Findlay was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago from 1932 to 1944. Educated at Oxford, like Gibson he translated a key text of Husserl’s, and for this reason alone he is also an important phenomenological figure in the English-speaking world. William Doniela taught at the University of Newcastle from the early 1960s until his retirement in 1987. Doniela’s primary focus was Hegel but he also had a strong interest in the Husserlian variety of phenomenology. The integrationist approach to phenomenology is also nicely embodied by Maurita Harney. In 1984, Harney published “Intentionality, Sense and Mind”, wherein she attempted to connect Husserl and Frege by identifying the former’s noema with the latter’s Sinn.
