PhD (University of Aberdeen) • Assistant Professor of Philosophy @RedeemerUniv • 23-24 Faculty Research Fellow at Notre Dame’s Center for Phil of Religion
South Bend, IN
Joined August 2012
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Friends, allow me to share a some exciting news! I have accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Eastern University in PA. My appointment is in the philosophy department with a partial load in the Templeton Honors College. >>
Over the last two weeks I have said many sad goodbyes in both South Bend, IN and Hamilton, ON and am really looking forward to some very happy hellos in Philadelphia.
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“Beauty insists that I inwardly open myself to it and let my inner self be determined by it.” Edith Stein
A step into a new life in view of an even greater promise of new life. This was an especially joyful Easter!
Someone needs to make a heart wringing movie that foregrounds Edith Stein’s relationship with Husserl over the years.
“That sacrifice, a journey up the Mount Moriah of Isaac and Abraham that Rothko frequents in his mental gymnastics with Kierkegaard, is a sacrifice toward a possibility of redemption.“
My essay on Rothko: Mark Rothko, A Painter of Ideas - Yale University Press yalebooks.yale.edu/2023/07/1…
“Friendship cannot be separated from reality any more than the beautiful. It is a miracle, like the beautiful. And the miracle consists simply in the fact that it exists.” - Simone Weil
Having lived in Minnesota and Canada, I am rather familiar with “false springs.” But Indiana is the weirdest of them all. One hour it is sunny and mild, the next there is a blizzard. Then more sun, and then another blizzard.
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I am teaching a class called Philosophy and Literature in the fall. What are your favorite literary works that are especially philosophically intriguing?
When a boomer and a millennial decide to get together for coffee and the boomer suggests “Starbucks, Panera, or Duncan Donuts”
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Patience as a hermeneutical virtue. This is a paper I had been wanting to write for a while! Many thanks to Steve Evans and John Lippitt for including me in their special issue. mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/3/317
“The true poet is endowed with the gift of ‘creating’ characters that are true to life. This kind of creativity, to be sure, is of a peculiar nature. It is not ‘free’ in the sense of being completely arbitrary. The more genuine and the greater the art of the poet the more >>
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My copy just arrived! The first edited volume on a Kierkegaard as phenomenologist inspired my dissertation. In this second volume I got to contribute what is basically a summary of that dissertation. What an incredible honor!
Just arrived! Thanks @jschrijversj @koci_martin for putting this lovely volume together.
