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52Response to Critical Views of Phenomenology of FilmFilm-Philosophy 28 (1): 113-130. 2024.This article responds to critical views of John Rhym, Martin Rossouw, Ludo de Roo, and Annie Sandrussi on my 2017 book Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film Experience. The article also takes up positive footholds from the analyses of Chiara Quaranta and Jason Wirth. The main topics addressed include Martin Heidegger’s ontic-ontological distinction; the notion of film-as-philosophy; being-in-the-world read as being-in-the-film-world; and questions surrounding the facticity an…Read more
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15Not All Picturing is PicturingStudia Phaenomenologica 23 139-156. 2023.This article examines selected texts in which Martin Heidegger thematizes the ontology of images, in order to adduce a view of how he understands their merits and limitations. I am primarily interested in the images seen in art works, especially those in film and photography, given Heidegger’s strong criticism of the latter alongside other 20th-century communicative media. The goal of the article is not to determine what is Heidegger’s central or overall position regarding images, as it is not …Read more
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13Martin Roussouw, "Transformational Ethics of Film: Thinking the Cinemakeover in the Film-Philosophy Debate."Philosophy in Review 43 (1): 33-35. 2022.
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6Heidegger on Literature, Poetry, and Education After the "Turn": At the Limits of Metaphysics by James M. Magrini and Elias SchweilerReview of Metaphysics 72 (2): 393-394. 2018.
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22Robert Pippin (2020) Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective FormFilm-Philosophy 26 (3): 436-440. 2022.
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14Catherine Homan, "A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education: The Play of the In-Between."Philosophy in Review 42 (1): 17-19. 2022.
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9Mauro Carbone, "Philosophy-Screens: From Cinema to the Digital Revolution." Trans. Marta Nijhuis (review)Philosophy in Review 40 (4): 138-140. 2020.
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27The Phenomenological Movement in Context of the Philosophy of Film and Motion PicturesIn Noël Carroll, Laura T. Di Summa & Shawn Loht (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures, Springer. pp. 285-313. 2019.This chapter surveys foundational concepts in the history of phenomenology for the purpose of highlighting their relevance for key contemporary issues in the philosophy of film. A central argument concerns phenomenology’s capacity for unraveling the ontology of film, given phenomenology’s emphasis on accounting for the ontology of phenomena through description based in first-person experience. On this ground, the chapter defends the claim that film’s ontology stems from the projective intentiona…Read more
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24Drapers and GardenersFilm and Philosophy 24 98-119. 2020.This article examines Martin Heidegger's concept of conscience in Being and Time as it is manifested by the characters Don Draper from the television series Mad Men (Matthew Weiner, 2007-2013) and Chauncey Gardiner in the film Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979). The article suggests that Draper hears and occasionally responds to what Heidegger terms the “call of conscience,” whereas Gardiner neither hears this call nor responds to it. Gardiner poses a problem case for Heidegger’s account of Dasein by…Read more
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15Martin Heidegger, "Heraclitus, The Inception of Occidental Thinking and Logic: Heraclitus’s Doctrine of the Logos." Trans. Julia Goesser Assaiante & S. Montgomery Ewegen. Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 40 (1): 13-15. 2020.
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138The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures (edited book)Springer. 2019.This handbook brings together essays in the philosophy of film and motion pictures from authorities across the spectrum. It boasts contributions from philosophers and film theorists alike, with many essays employing pluralist approaches to this interdisciplinary subject. Core areas treated include film ontology, film structure, psychology, authorship, narrative, and viewer emotion. Emerging areas of interest, including virtual reality, video games, and nonfictional and autobiographical film also…Read more
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10Heidegger on Literature, Poetry, and Education After the "Turn": At the Limits of Metaphysics (review)Review of Metaphysics 72 (2). 2018.
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18Phenomenological Preconditions of the Concept of Film-as-PhilosophyJournal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 2 (2): 171-185. 2015.This article surveys influential views on the topic of film-as-philosophy, principally the positions of Bruce Russell, Thomas Wartenburg, Noël Carroll, and Stephen Mulhall. Historically, this conversation has been restricted to a somewhat conservative view initiated by Russell and defended by others, according to which the film medium is fundamentally incapable of generating positive philosophical achievement in purely cinematic fashion. One of my interests is to show how the dialogue initiated …Read more
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19Jonathan Beever and Vernon W. Cisney , The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace: Philosophical Footholds on Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life”. Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 39 (1): 1-3. 2019.
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12Robert Sinnerbrink, Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical Experience through Film. Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 37 (5/6): 218-220. 2017.
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60Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film ExperienceLexington Books. 2017.This interdisciplinary study explores the relevance and application of Martin Heidegger’s phenomenology to key issues in the philosophy film. It develops a comprehensive look at how Heidegger’s thought illuminates historical and contemporary problems the film medium poses to philosophers.
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35The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century PhilosophyTeaching Philosophy 34 (3): 323-326. 2011.
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27Film as Ethical Philosophy and the Question of Philosophical Arguments in Film: A Reading of The Tree of LifeFilm and Philosophy 18 164-183. 2014.Responds to the seminal claim of Bruce Russell that films cannot present philosophical arguments. Provides a reading of The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011) in order to illustrate how this film presents an environmental ethics argument. Some reference to the environmental philosophy of Holmes Rolston III as well as Martin Heidegger.
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46Parmenides, Venerable and Awesome: Proceedings of the International Symposium ed. by Néstor-Luis Cordero (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 51 (3): 477-478. 2013.
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32Martin Heidegger, Basic concepts of aristotelian philosophy (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 48 (3): 405-406. 2010.Previously available as Volume 18 of the Gesamtausgabe [GA], this text contains a lecture course delivered by Heidegger at Marburg during the summer of 1924. Metcalf and Tanzer's translation is its first appearance in English. The editor of this volume in the Gesamtausgabe reports that only a fraction of Heidegger's original course material survives in manuscript form. As a result, much of the text does not originate from Heidegger's own hand. The bulk of it represents a transcription of the lec…Read more
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144Timothy Corrigan, ed. (2012) Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader. 2nd EditionFilm-Philosophy 17 (1): 480-483. 2013.
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9Francesco Ademollo, Plato's Cratylus: A Commentary (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 50 (3): 450-51. 2012.
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42The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (review)Teaching Philosophy 34 (3): 323-326. 2011.
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12Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 48 (3): 405-406. 2010.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Basic Concepts of Aristotelian PhilosophyShawn LohtMartin Heidegger. Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy. Translated by Robert D. Metcalf and Mark B. Tanzer. Bloomington-Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 279. Cloth, $39.95.Previously available as Volume 18 of the Gesamtausgabe [GA], this text contains a lecture course delivered by Heidegger at Marburg during the summer of 1924. Metcalf and Tanz…Read more
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43The Relevance of Heidegger’s Conception of Philosophy to the Film-as-Philosophy DebateFilm and Philosophy 19 34-53. 2016.Provides an account of philosophy adopted from Being and Time and later works of Heidegger in order to respond to key questions in the film-as-philosophy debate. I follow the school of Stanley Cavell, Robert Sinnerbrink, and Stephen Mulhall in the view that philosophy occurs in film in phenomenological ways that transcend mere argumentative discourse and logical analysis. Some of the views I counter include those of Bruce Russell and Paisley Livingston.
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39The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought (review)Teaching Philosophy 34 (4): 428-432. 2011.
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38Plato's Cratylus: A Commentary (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 50 (3): 450-451. 2012.
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Delgado Community CollegeAdministrator
Catholic University of America
PhD, 2009
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Aesthetics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |
Martin Heidegger |
Phenomenology |
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