My main interests are in phenomenology (esp. via Merleau-Ponty) with a focus on the philosophy of the body, mind and nature in relation to current biology, physics, and cognitive science. Other interests include Hegel (in relation to 19th century German Idealism), Bergson, and ancient (esp. Aristotle) and modern philosophy. I am currently studying the problem of the genesis of meaning and sense, in relation to biological and perceptual phenomena and nature in general. This has led me to my book, Merleau-Ponty's Developmental Ontology, in production at Northwestern University Press, in their Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Phenomenolo…
My main interests are in phenomenology (esp. via Merleau-Ponty) with a focus on the philosophy of the body, mind and nature in relation to current biology, physics, and cognitive science. Other interests include Hegel (in relation to 19th century German Idealism), Bergson, and ancient (esp. Aristotle) and modern philosophy. I am currently studying the problem of the genesis of meaning and sense, in relation to biological and perceptual phenomena and nature in general. This has led me to my book, Merleau-Ponty's Developmental Ontology, in production at Northwestern University Press, in their Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Phenomenology Series. This book focuses on issues of development and ontology in Merleau-Ponty, in relation to current biology and science, and advances my ongoing study of the problem of the genesis of meaning and sense. In turn, this has led to my current project, which pursues new ways of conceptualizing time (and also place) so as to arrive at a new view of meaning as at once intrinsically arising with nature, yet contingently so. This also leads to new ways of thinking about nature.
Many of my recent publications seek to advance phenomenology in relation to contemporary biology and other sciences. My book The Sense of Space was published by SUNY Press in 2004. I am co-editor, with Kym Maclaren, of the collection Time, Memory, Institution: Merleau-Ponty’s New Ontology of Self.
I am Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University and served as Chair from 2010-17 (with a sabbatical in 2014-15). In 2017 I received a Concordia Emerging Academic Leadership Award (Track 1) from the Office of the Provost. I am currently Associate General Secretary of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle and a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of Continental Philosophy Review. I received my M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto.