Theodore George is the author of The Responsibility to Understand: Hermeneutical Contours of Ethical Life (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Tragedies of Spirit: Tracing Finitude in Hegel’s Phenomenology (State University of New York Press, 2006), and his recent publications in his areas of expertise include “Hermeneutics” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He is also co-ed. with Charles Bambach, Philosophers and their Poets: Reflections on the Poetic Turn in Philosophy Since Kant (State University of New York Press, 2019) and translator of Günter Figal, Objectivity: The Hermeneutical and Philosophy (State University of New York Pre…
Theodore George is the author of The Responsibility to Understand: Hermeneutical Contours of Ethical Life (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Tragedies of Spirit: Tracing Finitude in Hegel’s Phenomenology (State University of New York Press, 2006), and his recent publications in his areas of expertise include “Hermeneutics” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He is also co-ed. with Charles Bambach, Philosophers and their Poets: Reflections on the Poetic Turn in Philosophy Since Kant (State University of New York Press, 2019) and translator of Günter Figal, Objectivity: The Hermeneutical and Philosophy (State University of New York Press, 2010). His current projects include co-ed. with Gert-Jan van der Heiden, The Gadamerian Mind (Routledge, forthcoming), a companion to Gadamer in the Routledge Philosophical Minds series.
George is Editor of Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, as well as category editor, PhilPapers, “Hermeneutics,” / leaf editor “Hans-Georg Gadamer,” and he holds an appointment as Senior Researcher, College of Fellows, Western Sydney University. His research has been supported by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Fulbright Commission, the Goethe Institute, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) at the University of Freiburg, Germany, as well as by the Rothrock Fellows Program and the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University. He is a recipient of the Texas A&M Association of Former Students College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award.
George is currently in his second term as Head of the Department of Philosophy. His service includes Academic Program Review work in conjunction with Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board mandate, as well as peer-review work for granting agencies such as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Commission, and for numerous presses and journals. He serves on advisory boards for journals and professional organizations in his areas of expertise, and he is a former Director of the Collegium Phaenomenologicum and former President of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics.