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13Hermeneutical Heidegger (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 2016.Hermeneutical Heidegger critically examines and confronts Heidegger's hermeneutical approach to philosophy and the history of philosophy. Heidegger's work, both early and late, has had a profound impact on hermeneutics and hermeneutical philosophy. The essays in this volume are striking in the way they exhibit the variety of perspectives on the development and role of hermeneutics in Heidegger's work, allowing a multiplicity of views on the nature of hermeneutics and hermeneutical philosophy to …Read more
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IntroductionIn Michael J. Bowler & Ingo Farin (eds.), Hermeneutical Heidegger, Northwestern University Press. 2016.
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Heidegger and the hermeneutic understanding of human beingIn Michael J. Bowler & Ingo Farin (eds.), Hermeneutical Heidegger, Northwestern University Press. 2016.
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12The Nature of Sacred TimeAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 95 (3): 549-569. 2021.In his essay, I examine the nature of sacred time, focusing primarily though not exclusively on two aspects of sacred time: that it is “set aside” from use and that in this time human beings can be in union and communion with and in God. I argue that chronological, “clock” time and Heideggerian “datable” time are incapable of being directly consecrated as sacred time. In order to understand sacred time, I investigate the Fall and how this results in an essentially instrumentalist understanding o…Read more
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5Heidegger and Aristotle: philosophy as praxisContinuum. 2008.Rickert, value philosophy, and the primacy of practical reason -- Husserl, phenomenology, and lived-experience -- Heideggerian reflections on Paul Natorp -- Dilthey on life, lived-experience, and worldview philosophy -- Toward a fundamental ontology -- Philosophy as praxix.
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54Heidegger, Aristotle, and Philosophical LeisureProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 88 273-283. 2014.I examine the two different accounts of the activity of philosophy and the nature of the philosophical life put forward by Heidegger and Aristotle. I do so by examining Heidegger’s well-known claim that for Aristotle sophia is the arete of techne. It is argued that this claim is the result of Heidegger’s deep engagement with critical philosophy, which his own early philosophy develops in interesting ways, and that this claim results in Heidegger overlooking crucial elements of Aristotle’s accoun…Read more
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25Review of Lauren swayne Barthold, Gadamer's Dialectical Hermeneutics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (4). 2010.
Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |
European Philosophy |