Patrick Eldridge

Dr. Patrick Eldridge is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. He is presently serving as chair of the department. He obtained his PhD at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) after having obtained his MA and MPhil there. He completed his BHum and BA at Carleton University. Before joining the Humanities and Languages department at UNB Saint John, Dr. Eldridge was also a visiting researcher at the University of Oregon.

Dr. Eldridge specializes in Phenomenology and Post-Kantian European Philosophy. He has published articles on the phenomenology of memory, phenomenological aesthetics, and the history of the phenomenological movement and has translated numerous philosophical essays and letters from French and German into English.

Edited volumes

Plotka, W. & Eldridge, P. (2020). Early Phenomenology in Central and Eastern Europe: Main Figures, Ideas, and Problems, (Dordrecht: Springer).

Articles and chapters

Eldridge, P. (Forthcoming). “Intersubjective Memory: Elements of an Husserlian Approach.” Phänomenologische Forschungen.

Eldridge, P. (Forthcoming). “Monads and Dubliners: an Husserlian Approach to a Case of Intersubjective Memory.” Phenomenological Investigations.

Eldridge, P. (2026). “Framing and Playing: Remarks on Eugen Fink’s Phenomenology of Image-Consciousness.” In: The Play of Being: New Perspectives on Eugen Fink’s Phenomenological Project, ed. Iulian Apostolescu, (Leiden: Brill): 244-268.

Eldridge, P. (2025). “The Eye and the Lens: Notes on the Intersubjective Constitution of Photography.” In: Husserl on Depiction, eds. Regina-Nino Mion, John Brough, and Claudio Rozzoni, (London: Routledge): 209-225.

Eldridge, P. (2024). “Objective Time and the Transcendental Functions of Memory in Husserl’s Phenomenology.” Husserl Studies 40.3:241-262.

Eldridge, P. (2023). “Hountondji and Husserl: Subjectivity, Responsibility, and Phenomenology in the Critique of Ethnophilosophy.” In: Phenomenology in an African Context: Contributions and Challenges, eds. Abraham Olivier, M. John Lamola and Justin Sands, (New York: SUNY Press): 79-98.

Eldridge, P. (2023). “Memory as a Theme in Phenomenology.” In: Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, eds. Nicolas de Warren and Ted Toadvine, (Cham: Springer).

Eldridge, P. (2022). Review Article: “The Appearance that Becomes an Image: Looking Through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual Media by Emmanuel Alloa.” Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 8.2: 155-162. [Review article]

Eldridge, P. (2021). “False Remembrance: Husserl’s Account of the Vicissitudes and Distortions of Memory.” Journal for the British Society of Phenomenology 52.1: 1-15.

Eldridge, P. (2020). “The Act of Forgetting: Husserl on the Constitution of the Absent Past.” Continental Philosophy Review 53.4: 401-417.

Plotka, W. & Eldridge, P. (2020). “Introduction: Rediscovering Phenomenology in Eastern and Central Europe.” In: Early Phenomenology in Central and Eastern Europe: Main Figures, Ideas, and Problems (Dordrecht: Springer): 1-15.

Eldridge, P. (2018). “Depicting and Seeing-in. The ‘Sujet’ in Husserl’s Phenomenology of Images.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 17.3: 555-573.

Eldridge, P. (2017). “Regret and the Consciousness of the Past.” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 25.5: 646-663.

Eldridge, P. (2016). “The Punctum and the Past. Sartre and Barthes on Memory and Fascination.” Sartre Studies International 22.1: 117-131.

Eldridge, P. (2015). “Observer Memories and Phenomenology.” Phenomenology & Mind 7: 213-223.

Recent select conference presentations

(2026) “Some Inauthentic Concerns About Time and Death in Husserl and Heidegger.” 2026 Annual Conference for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture. University of Victoria. Victoria, BC, Canada. 02/06/2026.

(2026) “Husserlian Thoughts on the Roles and Limits of Empathy in Photography.” Varieties of Intuition in Early Phenomenology. North American Society for Early Phenomenology. Université de Montréal. Montreal, QC, Canada. 28/05/2026.

Eldridge, P. (2025). Phenomenological Investigations of the Foundations of Joint Remembering.” The Bochum-Grenoble-Taipei Memory Colloquium. Université Grenoble-Alpes. Grenoble, France & Online. 18/12/2025

(2025) “The Multiple Histories of Paulin Hountondji.” 2025 Annual Conference for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture. George Brown College, Toronto, ON, Canada. 02/06/2025.

(2025) “The Crisis of Creativity and the Return to the Lifeworld.” Lifeworlds in Crisis: Applying Phenomenology. British Society of Phenomenology & University College Dublin. 28/08/2025.

(2024). “Mahnke and Husserl on Taking Leibniz into Phenomenology.” Phenomenology Between Pragmatism and Mysticism. University of New Brunswick. Saint John, NB, Canada. 07/06/2024

(2023). “Shared Memory, Collective Intentionality, and Alterity.” 2023 Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association. York University. Toronto, Canada. 30/05/2023.

(2021). “What is Transcendental in the Phenomenology of Memory? On Husserl’s Synthesis of Reproduction.” Remembering: Phenomenological and Analytics Approaches. Centre for the Philosophy of Memory. Université Grenoble-Alpes. Grenoble, France. 03/12/2021.

(2021). “Eugen Fink on the Phenomenality of Images.” 59th Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Online. 17/09/2021.

(2020). “On the Constitution, De-Constitution, and Re-Constitution of the Object of Memory.” Time, Object, and Consciousness in Phenomenology, Macau University. Online. 05/09/2020.

(2020). “Emmanuel Levinas: The Other as Future.” School for Philosophy Open Lecture Series, North-West University, Potchefstroom, Republic of South Africa. 11/03/2020.

Select translations

Bernet, R. (2019). “Phenomenological Concepts of Untruth in Husserl and Heidegger.” In: Eds. J. Drummond and O. Höffe. Tr. P. Eldridge. Husserl: German Perspectives (New York: Fordham UP): 239-263.

Mayer, V. & Erhard, C. (2019). “The Significance of Objectifying Acts in Husserl’s Fifth Logical Investigation.” .” In: Eds. J. Drummond and O. Höffe. Tr. P. Eldridge. Husserl: German Perspectives (New York: Fordham UP): 163-192.

Melle, U. (2019). “Objectifying and Non-objectifying Acts.” .” In: Eds. J. Drummond and O. Höffe. Tr. P. Eldridge. Husserl: German Perspectives (New York: Fordham UP): 193-208.

Assmann, J. (2019).“Monotheism.” In: Theological Genealogies: Reflections on Secularization in 20th Century German Thought, Eds. Symons, S. & Styfhals, W., Tr. Eldridge, P. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press): 231-242.

Foessel, M. (2019). “Is Progress a Category of Consolation? Kant, Blumenberg, and the Politics of the Moderns.” In: Theological Genealogies: Reflections on Secularization in 20th Century German Thought, Eds. Symons, S. & Styfhals, W., Tr. Eldridge, P. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press): 119-130.

Patočka, J. and Michalski, K. (2015). “Letters Between Krzysztof Michalski and Jan Patočka (1973–1976),” Ed. N. de Warren. Trs. N. de Warren, P. Eldridge, and V. Tylzanowski. The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, 14, 223-269.