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    Heidegger’s Topology (review)
    Environmental Philosophy 4 (1-2): 195-198. 2007.
  • Space: The open in which we sojourn
    In Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 345. 2013.
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    This paper extends Merleau-Ponty’s arguments regarding the interpersonal character of human spatiality and Bateson’s conception of the dynamically extended nature of consciousness. The central argument is that human communication is essentially spatial in nature, and that it is experienced and expressed as such. Using this analysis, the paper argues that Anorexia nervosa should not primarily be understood as an eating disorder, but rather as a spatially expressed and felt communication disorde…Read more
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    The Interpersonal Expression of Human Spatiality
    Chiasmi International 8 157-173. 2006.
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    The experience of home and the space of citizenship
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 48 (3): 219-245. 2010.
    I argue that, although we are inherently intersubjective beings, we are not first or most originally “public” beings. Rather, to become a public being, that is, a citizen—in other words, to act as an independent and self-controlled agent in a community of similarly independent and self-controlled agents and, specifically, to do so in a shared space in the public arena—is something that we can successfully do only by emerging from our familiar, personal territories—our homes. Finding support in t…Read more
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    The Gift of Memory: Sheltering the I
    In David Morris & Kym Maclaren (eds.), , Ohio University Press. 2015.
  • The Beginnings of Philosophy: On Teaching Metaphysics
    In Jana Mohr Lone & Roberta Israeloff (eds.), Philosophy and education: introducing philosophy to young people, Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 125-136. 2012.
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    Perception and its Development in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology (edited book)
    University of Toronto Press. 2017.
    Perception and Its Development in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology brings together essays from fifteen leading Merleau-Ponty scholars to demonstrate the continuing significance of Merleau-Ponty's analysis.
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    Sprawling Places (review)
    Environmental Philosophy 5 (2): 170-173. 2008.
  • Philosophy Across the Ages
    In Sara Goering, Nicholas J. Shudak & Thomas E. Wartenberg (eds.), Philosophy in schools: an introduction for philosophers and teachers, Routledge. pp. 244-253. 2013.
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    Agoraphobia is commonly considered to be a fear of outside, open, or crowded spaces, and is treated with therapies that work on acclimating the agoraphobic to external places she would otherwise avoid. I argue, however, that existential phenomenology provides the resources for an alternative interpretation and treatment of agoraphobia that locates the problem of the disorder not in something lying beyond home, but rather in a flawed relationship with home itself. More specifically, I demonstrate…Read more
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    Philosophical Perspectives on Home
    In Susan J. Smith, Marja Elsinga, Lorna Fox O’Mahony, Ong Seow Eng, Susan Wachter & Robyn Dowling (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Vol. 5, Elsevier. pp. 178-182. 2012.
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    Agoraphobia and Hypochondria as Disorders of Dwelling
    International Studies in Philosophy 36 (2): 31-44. 2004.
    Using the works of Merleau-Ponty and of Heidegger, this paper argues that our spatial experience is rooted in the way we are engaged with and in our world. Space is not a predetermined and uniform geometrical grid, but the network of engagement and alienation that provides one's orientation in the inter-humanworld. Drawing on a phenomenological conception of space, this paper demonstrates that the neuroses of agoraphobia and, more unexpectedly, hypochondria must not be understood as mere "psych…Read more
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    A developed nature: A phenomenological account of the experience of home
    Continental Philosophy Review 42 (3): 355-373. 2009.
    Though “dwelling” is more commonly associated with Heidegger’s philosophy than with that of Merleau-Ponty, “being-at-home” is in fact integral to Merleau-Ponty’s thinking. I consider the notion of home as it relates to Merleau-Ponty’s more familiar notions of the “lived body” and the “level,” and, in particular, I consider how the unique intertwining of activity and passivity that characterizes our being-at-home is essential to our nature as free beings. I argue that while being-at-home is essen…Read more