David Tredway Carr (born 1940, in Parkersburg, West VirginiaCarr, D., & Casey, E. S., et al., Explorations in Phenomenology (Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer, 1973), biographical notes.) is an American phenomenology scholar and a Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Philosophy from Emory University.

Biography Carr received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Yale University, completing his doctorate there in 1966.Chinese University of Hong Kong, David Carr bio, 2005. At Yale he studied under the tutelage of Wilfrid Sellars and Richard J. Bernstein. Concomitantly, as a graduate student, he studied at Heidelberg University under Karl Löwith, Dieter Henrich and Hans-Georg Gadamer, and at University of Paris under Paul Ricœur.Emory University, David Carr bio.

Career Carr's research, publication and teaching have been devoted to various aspects of Edmund Husserl's philosophy and to phenomenology in general. He is particularly attentive to the philosophy of history. The latter inquiry has led him to explore the nature of narrative, and has thus intersected with literary theory, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, and analytic theories of history. Carr's work is explicitly opposed to that of Louis Mink, Hayden White, and Roland Barthes; Carr considered the basis of narrative structure to inhere in the human phenomenology of experience, even if not in what he described as "merely physical" events.Roth, B. M., "Narrative, understanding, and the self: Heidegger and the interpretation of lived experience", Boston University Libraries, OpenBU, 2014. Moreover, his research interests fall on the nature of transcendental philosophy, both in Husserl and in Kant.* Carr, "The Logic of Knowing How and Abilities", in Mind, Vol. LXXXVIII, Nr. 315, July, 1979, p. 394. He is a former Executive Secretary and board member of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, and serves on the editorial boards of the philosophical series published by Indiana University Press and Northwestern University Press, and by Springer Verlag. In retirement Carr has lectured on Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty at The New School for Social Research,The New School for Social Research, David Carr page. and on Husserl's notion of “so etwas wie Leiblichkeit”—something like corporality—at Freie Universität Berlin.Freie Universität Berlin, David Carr bio, 2016. He was the doctoral advisor of Margret Grebowicz.

Publications Among Carr's publications are six books:

Phenomenology and the Problem of History (1974),Carr, Phenomenology and the Problem of History (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1974). Interpreting Husserl (1987),Carr, Interpreting Husserl (Leiden and Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1987). Time, Narrative and History (1991),Carr, Time, Narrative and History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991). The Paradox of Subjectivity (1999),Carr, The Paradox of Subjectivity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). Experience and History: Phenomenological Perspectives on the Historical World (2014),Carr, Experience and History: Phenomenological Perspectives on the Historical World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). Historical Experience: Essays on the Phenomenology of History (2021),Gailhac, Q., "David Carr—Historical Experience: Essays on the Phenomenology of History", Phenomenological Reviews, November 5, 2021.

Carr has a number of edited or co-editedCarr, Flynn, T. R., & Makkreel, R. A., eds., The Ethics of History (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2004). collections, and the English translation of the major work of the late Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology.Husserl, E., trans. D. Carr, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970). He is the author of numerous essays,Carr, "The Emergence and Transformation of Husserl's Concept of World", in Heinämaa, S., Hartimo, M., & Miettinen, T., eds., Phenomenology and the Transcendental (New York and London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 175–189.Carr, "The Reality of History", in Rüsen, J., ed., Meaning and Representation in History (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006), pp. 123–136.Carr, "Transcendental and Empirical Subjectivity: The Self in the Transcendental Tradition", in Welton, D., ed., The New Husserl: A Critical Reader (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003), pp. 181–198.Carr, "Narrative and the Real World: An Argument for Continuity", in Hinchman, L. P., & Hinchman, S. K., eds., Memory, Identity, Community: The Idea of Narrative in the Human Sciences (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997), pp. 7–25.Carr, "History", in Luft, S., & Overgaard, S., eds., The Routledge Companion to Phenomenologyedited (New York: Routledge, 2012), pp. 323–335.Carr, "Phenomenological Reflections on the Philosophy of History", in Blosser, P., Shimomissé, E., Embree, L., & Kojima, H., eds., Japanese and Western Phenomenology (Berlin: Springer, 1993), pp. 393–408. a collection of which is translated into Japanese, and a longstanding contributor to History and Theory.Carr, "Reflections on Temporal Perspective: The Use and Abuse of Hindsight", in History and Theory, Vol. 57, Nr. 4, 2018, pp. 71–80.

Awards David Carr's research has been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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