CURRICULUM VITAE
University of Massachusetts Lowell
1 University Avenue, Lowell, MA 01854 USA
Summary
Areas of Specialization
Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century European Philosophy
Areas of Concentration
Chinese and Comparative Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Ethics, Environmental Ethics, and Social-Political Philosophy
Philosophy of Culture, History, and the Human Sciences
Education
2002: Ph.D. in Philosophy from Emory University (Atlanta, GA). Dissertation Title: Time, History, and Facticity in Dilthey and Heidegger
1993: B.A. in Philosophy from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
Academic Experience
2005- : Assistant Professor, Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Lowell
2003-2005: Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Toledo
2000-2003: Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Texas A&M University, University of Memphis, King College
1999-2000: Lecturer, Philosophy, Emory University
1994-1997: Teaching Assistant, Philosophy, Emory University
Publications
(forthcoming = accepted for publication)
Edited Volumes
Anthologies
John Drabinski and E. S. Nelson (In Progress), Between Levinas and Heidegger (Albany: SUNY Press)
François Raffoul and E. S. Nelson, Rethinking Facticity (Albany: SUNY Press, 2008). François Raffoul and E. S. Nelson, Introduction
E. S. Nelson, Antje Kapust, and Kent Still, Addressing Levinas (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2005). E. S. Nelson and Antje Kapust, Preface
Reviewed in:
Cahiers d’études lévinassiennes (ISBN : 2-86432-470-9) Lévinas-Sartre, 2006. N. 5; 398-407
Philosophy in Review (Comptes rendus philosophiques) (1206-5269) June 2006. Vol. 26, 3; 216-218
Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Etranger (0035-3833) January 2006. Vol. 196, 1; 86-88
Symploke (1069-0697) Winter-Spring 2005. 13.1-2 ; 352-354
Journals
Managing Co-Editor (2008-ongoing), Dilthey International Yearbook for Philosophy and the Human Sciences (DIY), published by frommann-holzboog
Acting Editor (Spring-Fall 2006), SACP Forum for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, published by the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Translated Volumes
Martin Heidegger (In Progress), Introduction to Philosophy. Translation by E. S. Nelson and Virginia Lyle Jennings (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007). Translation of Martin Heidegger, Einleitung in die Philosophie, GA Volume 27, second edition (Frankfurt: Klostermann 2001).
Articles
(Forthcoming) "Responding with dao: Daoist Ethics and the Environment." Philosophy East West, 59:3 (July 2009).
(Forthcoming) "Traumatic Life: Violence, Pain, and Responsiveness in Heidegger." The Trauma Controversy: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogues, eds. Kristen Brown and Bettina Bergo (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009).
(Forthcoming) "Levinas and Early Confucian Ethics: Religion, Rituality, and the Sources of Morality." Levinas Studies, ed. Jeffrey Bloechl (Duquesne University Press, 2009).
(Forthcoming) "Schleiermacher and Dilthey." History of Continental Philosophy: Volume 2, ed. Alan D. Schrift and (vol. 2 ed.) Daniel Conway (Acumen Press).
(Forthcoming) "Traumatic Origins: History, Genealogy, and Violence in Nietzsche and Heidegger." Heidegger und Nietzsche, ed. B. Babich , A. Denker, H. Zaborowski (Rodopi, 2009).
(Forthcoming) "Priestly Power and Damaged Life in Nietzsche and Adorno." Nietzsche: Philosoph Der Kultur(en)? / Philosopher of Culture?, ed. Andreas Urs Sommer (Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008), 349-356.
(Forthcoming) "The Secular, the Religious, and the Ethical in Kierkegaard and Levinas." Despite Oneself: Subjectivity and its Secret in Kierkegaard and Levinas, ed. Claudia Welz and Karl Verstrynge (Turnshare, 2008).
(Forthcoming) "Heidegger and the Questionability of the Ethical." Studia Phaenomenologica, Volume VIII, 2008.
"Interpreting Practice: Epistemology, Hermeneutics, and Historical Life in Dilthey." Idealistic Studies, 38:1-2, 2008: 105-122.
"Heidegger and the Ethics of Facticity." Rethinking Facticity, ed. François Raffoul and Eric Sean Nelson (Albany: SUNY Press, 2008), 129-147.
"History as Decision and Event in Heidegger." Arhe, IV: 8 (2007), 97-115.
"Empiricism, Facticity, and the Immanence of Life in Dilthey." Pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Vol.18, Superior Empiricism (2007), 108-128.
"Disturbing Truth: Art, Finitude, and the Human Sciences in Dilthey." theory@buffalo, Vol. 11: Aesthetics and Finitude ( 2007), 121-142.
"Questioning Karma: Buddhism and the Phenomenology of the Ethical." Revisioning Karma, ed. Charles Prebish, Damien Keown, Dale S. Wright (Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 2007), 353-373.
"Virtue, Violence, and Engagement in Therāvada and Sri Lankan Buddhism." SACP Forum for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. Vol. 23, No. 47, Fall 2006, 192-216.
"Leibniz, China, and the Hermeneutics of Cross-Cultural Understanding." Einheit in der Vielheit: Akten des VIII. Internationalen Leibniz-Kongresses, ed. H. Breger, J. Herbst, and S. Erdner. Volume 2, 700-706 (Hannover, 2006).
"Die formale Anzeige der Faktizität als Frage der Logik." Heidegger und die Logik (Elementa 79), ed. Alfred Denker and Holger Zaborowski (Editions Rodopi BV, 2006), 31-48.
"Responding to Heaven and Earth: Daoism, Heidegger and Ecology." Environmental Philosophy, Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall 2004, 65-74.
"Schleiermacher on Language, Religious Feeling, and the Ineffable." Epoché 8:2, Spring 2004, 297-312. // (In Slovenian) "Schleiermacher, hermenevtika in neizrekljivo." Phainomena X/37-38, 2001. Ljubljana: Nova revija.
"Moral and Political Prudence in Kant." International Philosophical Quarterly, 44: 3, Sept. 2004, 305-319. // Short conference version published as: "Kant and the Art of Political Prudence." Kant und die Berliner Aufklärung, ed., V. Gerhardt, R. Horstmann and R. Schumacher. Volume 4, 220-227 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2001).
"Faith and Knowledge: Karl Jaspers on Communication and the Encompassing." Existentia, Volume 13/3-4, 2003, 207-218.
"Begründbarkeit und Unergründlichkeit bei Wilhelm Dilthey." Existentia, Volume 12/1-2, 2002, 1-10.
"Heidegger and the hermeneutics of facticity." Existentia, Vol. 11/3-4, 2001, 323-333.
"Questioning Practice: Heidegger, Historicity and the Hermeneutics of Facticity." Philosophy Today 44, 2001 (SPEP Supplement 2000): 150-159.
"Ansprechen und Auseinandersetzung: Heidegger und die Frage nach der Vereinzelung von Dasein." Existentia, Vol. 10/1-4, 2000, 113-122. // Short conference version published as: "Mitsein und Andersheit in Heideggers Sein und Zeit." In: Der Andere - ein alltäglicher Begriff in philosophischer Perspektive, ed., U. Hagel, F.A. Kurbacher, C. Suhm, and U. Ziemann (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2002).
Contributions to Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Ernst Cassirer, Wilhelm Dilthey, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Karl Jaspers, Lebensphilosophie, limit situation. Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2005), ed. John Protevi. Published in North America as A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy (Yale University Press, 2006).
Hong Xiuquan, Huangbo Xiyun, Mengzi, and Zhuangzi. Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia, ed. Phyllis Jestice (ABC-Clio, 2004).
Book Reviews
Russell Kirkland, Taoism: The Enduring Tradition (Routledge, 2004). China Review International, Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall 2006, 432-434.
Samuel Moyn, Origins of the other: Emmanuel Levinas between revelation and ethics (Cornell , 2005). Studia Phaenomenologica, Volume VI, 2006, 436-439.
Simon P. James, Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics (Ashgate, 2004). Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Volume 12, 2005, 119-126.
Youru Wang, Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism: The Other Way of Speaking (Routledge, 2003). Journal of Chinese Philosophy 32:4 (Dec 2005), 653-656.
Scott Cook (ed.), Hiding the World in the World: Uneven Discourses on the Zhuangzi (SUNY, 2003). Journal of Chinese Philosophy 32:3 (Sept 2005), 529–532.
Howard Caygill, Levinas and the Political (Routledge, 2002). Teaching Philosophy, 28:2, June 2005, 188-191.
Richard Detsch, Rilke’s Connections to Nietzsche (University Press of America, 2003). German Studies Review, XXVIII: 2, May 2005.
Two Recent Works on the Zen Koan: Steven Heine and Dale Wright (editors), The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2002); Steven Heine, Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters (Oxford University Press, 2002). The Journal of Buddhist-Christian Studies, Volume 24, 2004, 284-288.
Jan-Olav Henriksen, The Reconstruction of Religion: Lessing, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche (William B. Eerdmans, 2001). Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 72: Issue 1, March 2004, 258-260.
Wilhelm Dilthey, The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences. Edited with introduction by Rudold A. Makkreel and Frithjof Rodi (Princeton University Press, 2002). Journal of the History of Philosophy, Jan. 2004, 42:1, 113-115.
Buddhism and War: Two Reviews; Brian Daizen Victoria, Zen War Stories (Routledge, 2003); Tessa J. Bartholomeusz, In Defense of Dharma: Just-War Ideology in Buddhist Sri Lanka (Routledge, 2002). Journal of Military Ethics, 2003, 2:3, pp. 252-255.
Laozi, Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation. Translation, introduction, and commentary by Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall (Ballantine Books, 2003). Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Vol. II:3, Winter 2003, 143-145.
Steven Galt Crowell, Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning: Paths toward Transcendental Philosophy (Northwestern University Press, 2001). Philosophy in Review, Vol. XIII: 3, June 2003, 171-173.
Allan Hunt Badiner (ed.), Mindfulness in the Marketplace: Compassionate Responses to Consumerism (Parallax Press, 2002). Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Volume 10, 2003, 66-70.
N. J. Girardot, James Miller, Liu Xiaogan (editors), Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape (Harvard University Press, 2001). Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Vol. II.2, Summer 2003, 342-345.
Matthias Jung, Dilthey zur Einführung (Junius Verlag, 1996). Neues Atheneum/New Atheneum, Vol. VI, 2001.
Kimberly Hutchings, Kant, Critique and Politics (Routledge 1996). Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger. Band 52, Heft 3, 1999.
Short Book Reviews
Michael N. Forster, Kant and Skepticism (Princeton, 2008). CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 45-6087, July 2008.
Simon Critchley, Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance (Verso, 2007). CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 45-4901, May 2008.
Brian Treanor, Aspects of Alterity: Levinas, Marcel, and the Contemporary Debate (Fordham University Press, 2006). CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 45-0230, Sept. 2007.
Salomon Malka, Emmanuel Levinas: His Life and Legacy (Duquesne, 2006). CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 44-3228, Feb. 2007.
Tom P.S. Angier, Either Kierkegaard/or Nietzsche: Moral Philosophy in a New Key (Ashgate, 2006). CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 44-3221, Feb. 2007.
Samuel Moyn, Origins of the other: Emmanuel Levinas between revelation and ethics (Cornell , 2005). CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 43-6454, July 2006.
James Mensch, Postfoundational Phenomenology: Husserlian Reflections on Presence and Embodiment (Penn State University Press, 2001). Bibliographie de la Philosophie, 2001.
Teaching (since Fall 2003)
2005-Present: University of Massachusetts Lowell (normal teaching load: 3 courses per semester)
Undergraduate Courses
45.203 Introduction to Ethics (Fall 2007, Fall 2006 x2, Fall 2005 x2)
45.206 Introduction to Political Philosophy (Fall 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006)
45.371 Buddhist and Zen Philosophy (Fall 2008)
45.342 Critical Theory and Society: Hegel, Marx, and the Frankfurt School (Fall 2006)
45.348 Eastern Philosophy (Fall 2007, Spring 2006)
45.352 Existence and Anxiety: Existentialism (Spring 2007, Fall 2005)
45.336 Early Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant (Spring 2007)
45.359 Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Fall 2008)
45.323 Philosophy Classics: Nietzsche (Fall 2007)
45.491 Directed Studies: Heidegger's Being and Time (Spring 2006)
45.491 Directed Studies: Kant, Hegel, and the Question of Idealism (Summer 2008)
2005 (Summer Session): Ohio University in Hong Kong
Philosophy of Art
2003-2005: University of Toledo (teaching load: 4 courses per semester)
Undergraduate Courses
Contemporary Moral Problems (PHIL 2400), including Honors sections
Existentialism (PHIL 3240 and PHIL 5990)
Eastern Thought (PHIL/ REL 3500), including DL (on-line) section
Zen Philosophy (PHIL/REL 3510 and PHIL 5920)
Philosophy of Religion (PHIL/ REL 3570)
Directed Readings: Jacques Derrida (PHIL 4920)
Directed Readings: Madhyamika Buddhism (Nagarjuna and Chandrakirti) (PHIL 4920)
Honors Independent Study: Philosophy of History (Dilthey, Nietzsche, Heidegger) (PHIL 4990)
Masters Courses
Phenomenology: Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty (PHIL 4250/5250)
Phenomenology: Heidegger and Levinas (PHIL 4250/5250)
Independent Study: Levinas, Totality and Infinity (PHIL 5990)
Awards and Service
Awards and Fellowships (since 1999)
2008, Spring Semester: UMass Lowell Pre-tenure Research Sabbatical
2006-2007: UMass Lowell Philosophy Department Excellence in Teaching Award
1999-2000: DAAD Fellowship for dissertation research at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
University and Departmental Service
2008-2009: Chancellor's Medal Committee, Hardware/Software Committee
2008- : Faculty Senate, Teaching & Learning Council
2006- : Departmental Library Liaison (2006-), Departmental Hiring Committee (2006-2007, 2007-2008)
Academic Service
Ph.D. Examiner: University of Sydney (2007)
MA Thesis and Examinations: University of Toledo (2003-2005), University of Tasmania (2004)
Independent / Directed Studies at BA, BA-Honors, and MA levels: Texas A&M University, University of Memphis, University of Toledo, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Pre-Publication Reviewer / Referee
Referee for the publishers: Blackwell Publishing, Duquesne University Press, Fordham University Press, Ohio University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, SUNY Press.
Referee for the journals: Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy, Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, Philosophy East West.
Conference and Society Organization
Convener of Third New England Seminar in Continental Philosophy at UMass Lowell (October 27, 2007).
Conference organizer with Benjamin Pryor. Philosophy Research Seminar on Ethics, Politics, and Continental Philosophy at the University of Toledo (April 2-3, 2004).
Conference organizer with Kristen Brown and Bettina Bergo. Trauma: Reflections on Experience and its Other at Millsaps College (April 4-5, 2003).
Conference organizer with Valentine Moulard. Thinking with/against Life at the University of Memphis (April 19-20, 2002).
Secretary and APA Central Division Sessions-Organizer for the Society for the Philosophy of History (2002-2006).
Conference organizer with Ian Oakes. Thinking with & against Heidegger at Emory University (May 6, 2001).
Conference organizer with Antje Kapust and Kent Still. Addressing Levinas: Ethics, Phenomenology and the Judaic Tradition. Emory University (October 15-17, 1999).
Conference organizer with Peter Trawny. 1st, 3rd, and 4th Aussprache zu Martin Heidegger. Bergische-Universität-Wuppertal (June 12-13, 1999; June 3-5, 2004; June 1-3, 2006).
Lectures and Responses
Lectures (Accepted and Invited)
The Human, the Natural, and the Sublime in Kant and the Zhuangzi. Kant in Asia: The Unity of Human Personhood, Hong Kong (May 20-23 2009)
Habermas, Adorno, and the Aesthetics of Nature. American Society for Aesthetics. Annual Meeting, Northampton, MA (Nov. 5 - 8, 2008)
Suffering History in Nietzsche and Adorno. 47th Annual SPEP Conference, Duquesne University (October 16-18, 2008)
Levinas, Asymmetrical Ethics, and Global Justice. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA (August 28-31, 2008)
Virtues and Encounters: Zen Buddhism, Ethics, and the Environment. XVth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Emory University (June 23-28, 2008); Consuming Desires: Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics. Invited Lecture, Humanities Salon Series, UMass Lowell (February 6, 2008); Consuming Desire: Zen, Consumerism, and Environmental Ethics. International Association for Environmental Philosophy Eleventh Annual Meeting, Chicago (November 10-12, 2007); Zen Buddhism, Ethics, and the Environment. International Society for Buddhist Philosophy, APA Eastern Meeting. Washington D.C. (Dec. 27-30, 2006)
Perplexing Words: Language and the Ineffable in Heidegger and Chan Buddhism. Heidegger und die Religion. Fourth International Conference of the Heidegger Research Group, Meßkirch (June 4-7, 2008); Perplexing Words: Language and the Unsayable in Heidegger and Chan Buddhism. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. Central APA, Chicago (April 17-20, 2008); Deconstruction and Primordial Experience in Heidegger and Ch'an Buddhism. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy at the Pacific APA. San Francisco (March 26-30, 2003)
Can Nature be Reified? Animals, Environments, and the Frankfurt School. Beyond Reification: Critical Theory and the Challenge of Praxis, John Cabot University, Rome (May 21-23, 2008); Environmentalism, the Frankfurt School, and the Domination of Nature. Northeastern Political Science Association 2006 Annual Meeting. Boston (Nov. 9-11, 2006); Nature, Domination, and the Dialectic of Enlightenment. International Association for Environmental Philosophy Tenth Annual Meeting. Philadelphia (Oct. 14-16, 2006)
Nature, History, and Ethics in Adorno and Levinas. Invited Lecture, Philosophy Colloquium Series, Duquesne University (April 4, 2008)
Interpreting Practice: Epistemology, Hermeneutics, and Historical Life in Dilthey. Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences Annual Conference, Chicago (Nov. 8-10, 2007)
Heidegger and the Language of Factical Life. 46th Annual Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Conference, Chicago (November 8-10, 2007)
Violence, Trauma and Religious Culture in Nietzsche's Genealogies. Nietzsche - Philosoph der Kultur(en)? Internationale Konferenz der Friedrich Nietzsche Gesellschaft, Naumburg (August 23-26, 2007); Priestly Power and Damaged Life in Nietzsche and Adorno. 16th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society: Nietzsche, Power & Politics. University of Leiden (March 23-25, 2007)
Ethics and Religion in Kierkegaard and Levinas. Second New England Seminar in Continental Philosophy at Boston College (April 21, 2007); Ethics and Religion in Kierkegaard and Levinas. Despite Oneself: Subjectivity and its Secret in Kierkegaard and Levinas at the University of Copenhagen (Feb. 8-10, 2007)
Leibniz, China, and the Hermeneutics of Cross-Cultural Understanding. VIIIth International Leibniz Congress: Unity in Plurality. University of Hannover (July 24-29, 2006); Enlightenment and Interpretation: Ethics and Hermeneutics in Christian Wolff’s Lecture on the Practical Philosophy of the Chinese. Internationaler Christian-Wolff-Kongreß: "Christian Wolff und die Europäische Aufklärung." Halle (Saale) (April 4-8, 2004); Reason and Interpretation: Leibniz, Wolff, and China. German Studies Association Conference. New Orleans (September 18-21, 2003)
Being without Desire and Doing as One Pleases in the Zhuangzi. Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy Annual Conference: Desire. Pacific Grove, CA (June 18-21, 2006); Doubting with the Dao: Reconsidering Skepticism and Mysticism in the Zhuangzi. Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP) Section of the American Philosophical Association Central Division. Chicago (April 27-30, 2005)
Dilthey, Hermeneutics, and the Question of Aestheticism. International Association for Philosophy and Literature. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität-Freiburg (June 5-10, 2006) and Aestheticization of Consciousness or Letting Art Speak to Philosophy? A Reconsideration of Dilthey's "Aestheticism." German Studies Association Conference. Atlanta (Oct. 7-10, 1999)
Heidegger on Ontological and Ontic Difference. Fourth Aussprache zu Martin Heidegger Conference. Bergische-Universität-Wuppertal (June 1-3, 2006)
History and Poesis. Heidegger und die Dichtung: Third International Conference of the Heidegger Research Group. Meßkirch (May 24-28, 2006)
Confrontation and Responsiveness: Heidegger and the Ethics of Individuation. 40th North American Heidegger Conference. Boston University (May 5-7, 2006); Heidegger, Ethics, and Individuation. First New England Seminar for Continental Philosophy at Hampshire College, MA (April 8, 2006); Heidegger and the Ethics of Finitude. Invited Lecture, Shenzhen University / 深圳大学 (July 21, 2005)
Does the Zhuangzi have an Ethics? Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy. American Philosophical Association Central Division. Chicago (April 26-29, 2006)
Virtue and Violence in Theravāda Buddhist Ethics. New England Association for Asian Studies Conference. Bentley College, Waltham, MA (Nov. 5–6, 2005); Does the doctrine of skillful means justify too much? The justice and injustice of war in Sri Lankan Buddhism. Association for Asian Studies. Chicago (March 31-April 3, 2005)
Questioning Karma: Buddhism and the Phenomenology of Ethical Life. Journal of Buddhist Ethics on-line Conference on "Revisioning Karma" (Oct. 17-22, 2005)
Responding with the Dao: Early Daoism and Contemporary Environmental Ethics / "道"的回应：早期道家与当代环境伦理. International Symposium on Environment and Society in Chinese History at Nankai University / 南开大学. Tianjin (August 17-19, 2005)
Religion, Ritual and Ethical Responsiveness in Levinas and Mencius. American Academy of Religion Eastern International Meeting. McGill University, Montreal (May 6-7, 2005); Moral Responsiveness in Levinas and Mengzi (Mencius). International Society for Chinese Philosophy. Central APA. Chicago (April 22-25, 2004).
Knowledge and its Limits in Eastern and Western Thought. Invited Lecture, Ramapo College, NJ (Feb. 14, 2005)
Between Earth and Sky: Heidegger, Daoism and Environmental Philosophy. Invited Lecture, Colby College, ME (Feb. 7, 2005); The Ecological Significance of Nature in Heidegger and Daoism. International Association for Environmental Philosophy Seventh Annual Meeting. Boston (Nov. 8-10, 2003); Nature and Ecology in Heidegger and Daoism / 道教和海德格尔的自然与生态比较. Daoism and the Contemporary World. Boston University (June 5-7, 2003)
Difficult Alterity: Death, Individuation, and the Social in Heidegger. Invited Lecture, Catholic University of America (Feb. 1, 2005); Difficult Alterity: Death, Individuation, and the Social in Heidegger. Invited Lecture, San Diego State University (Jan. 28, 2005); Difficult Alterity: Death, Individuation, and the Social in Heidegger. Thirty-eighth Annual North American Heidegger Conference. New Orleans, LA (May 21-23, 2004); Death and Individuation in Heidegger. Invited Lecture, Murray State University (April 16, 2003)
(In German) Logik, Formale Anzeige und die Frage nach der Faktizität. Third Aussprache zu Heidegger Conference. Bergische-Universität-Wuppertal (June 3-5, 2004); (In German) Die formale Anzeige der Faktizität und die Frage der Logik. Heidegger und die Logik: First International Conference of the Heidegger Research Group. Freiburg (May 27-29, 2002);
Traumatic Life: History, Genealogy, and Violence in Nietzsche and Heidegger. Heidegger und Nietzsche: Second International Conference of the Heidegger Research Group. Meßkirch (May 26-29, 2004); Thinking through Trauma and Violence in Nietzsche and Heidegger. Trauma: Reflections on Experience and its Other. Millsaps College (April 4-5, 2003)
Spiritual Practices in Interfaith Dialogue. Invited Lecture, World Religions and their Spiritual Practices: Second Annual Interfaith Conference. University of Toledo (April 18, 2004)
Nature as Spontaneity and Responsiveness: Antirealism and Naturalism in Zhuangzi. International Society for Chinese Philosophy. Eastern APA. Washington DC (Dec. 27-30, 2003)
Schleiermacher’s "Romanticism": On the Singular, the Whole, and the Unconditional. American Academy of Religion. Atlanta (November 22-25, 2003)
Empiricism and Lebensphilosophie: Reading Dilthey after Deleuze. 42nd Annual SPEP Conference. Boston (November 6-8, 2003)
Religion and the Religious Image in India. Invited Lecture, Toledo Museum of Art (October 25, 2003)
History and Decision in Heidegger. Society for the Philosophy of History at the Central APA. Cleveland (April 23-26, 2003); Heidegger on Deciding between History and Non-History. Interpreting the Beiträge. University of North Texas at Denton (April 18-20, 2001); Facticity and Event: Heidegger and the Question of History. Society for the Philosophy of History. Eastern APA. New York (Dec. 29, 2000)
Interpretation, the Life-World, and Social Criticism in Habermas. Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences Conference. Loyola University, Chicago (Oct. 10-13, 2002); Habermas on Interpretive Understanding and Social Criticism. Invited Lecture, Texas A & M Philosophy Department Colloquium Series (Jan. 25, 2001)
Historical Life as the "Between" in Dilthey. 26th IAPL Conference. Erasmus University of Rotterdam (June 3-8, 2002); Rethinking History after Dilthey. Society for the Philosophy of History Meeting at the Eastern APA. Atlanta (December 27-30, 2001)
Violence, Pain, and Heidegger’s Thinking of History. Second Aussprache zu Heidegger. Bergische-Universität-Wuppertal (May 31- June 2, 2002); Violence, Trauma, History: Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics. 40th SPEP Conference. Goucher College (October 4-6, 2001)
Dilthey and Heidegger on Hermeneutics and Factical Life. Thinking with/against Life. University of Memphis (April 19-20, 2002)
Singularity and Difference in Heidegger’s Being and Time. Invited Lecture, Louisiana State University Philosophy Department Colloquium Series (April 12, 2002); Rethinking Being-with and Individuation in Heidegger after Levinas. Tennessee Philosophical Association. Vanderbilt University (November 3, 2001)
Habermas and the Dialectic of Enlightenment. Mid-South Philosophy Conference. University of Memphis (Feb. 22-23, 2002)
Formal Indication and the Facticity of Life. Thinking with & against Heidegger. Emory University (May 6, 2001); Heidegger and the Question of Facticity. North Texas Philosophical Association Conference. Dallas (April 21, 2001); Heidegger and the Question of Facticity. Mid-South Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis (Feb. 23-24, 2001)
When does Hermeneutics begin? 25th IAPL Conference. Spelman College (May 2-5, 2001)
Questioning Practice: Heidegger, Historicity and Facticity. Invited Lecture, University of Memphis Philosophy Department Colloquium Series (April 16, 2001); Heidegger, Historicity and the Hermeneutics of Facticity. 39th SPEP Conference. Pennsylvania State University (October 5-7, 2000); Heidegger and the Facticity of Life. Collegium Phaenomenologicum. Citta di Castello (July 10-30, 1999)
Faith and Knowledge: Karl Jaspers on Communication and the Encompassing. North American Jaspers Society Meeting. Eastern APA. New York (December 28, 2000).
Communication and the Ineffable: Schleiermacher and the Limits of Hermeneutics. Schleiermacher as Philosopher and Philosophical Theologian. Drew University (April 6-9, 2000).
Kant and the Art of Political Prudence. Ninth International Kant Congress. Humboldt-Universität-Berlin (March 26-31, 2000).
(In German) Faktizität, Unergründlichkeit und Widerstreit bei Dilthey. Invited Lecture, Dilthey-Forschungsstelle, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum (June 30, 1999) and (In German) Die Frage nach der Begründbarkeit der Geisteswissenschaften und der Unbegründbarkeit des Lebens bei Wilhelm Dilthey. Invited Lecture, University of Dortmund (Feb. 22, 1999)
(In German) Dasein und sein Anderes. Aussprache zu Heidegger. Bergische-Universität-Wuppertal (June 12-13, 1999) and (In German) Heidegger und die Vereinzelung des Mitseins. Doctoral student conference. Humboldt-Universität-Berlin (March 11-13, 1999); (In German) Die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Anderen: Von Heideggers Konzeption des Mitseins zur Agonistik der Differenzierung. The Other. University of Münster (Feb. 26-28, 1999)
Discussant or Respondent (Invited)
Claudia Leeb, "The Politics of Misrecognition: A Feminist Critique." Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston (August 28-31, 2008)
Lauren Freeman, "The Art of Existing as an Ethical Possibility: Heidegger, Aristotle, and Bernard Williams" and Joshua Hayes, "Heidegger’s Metontology and the Metaphysics of Transcendence." 41st North American Heidegger Conference, DePaul University (May 3-5, 2007)
John Drabinksi, "Phenomenology After Auschwitz: Reconsidering Adorno." 36th Husserl Circle Meeting. Wellesley College (June 22-24, 2006)
Philip Maloney, "Dreaming Otherwise than Icarus: Heidegger, Levinas and the Secularization of Transcendence." Levinas Research Seminar. Assumption College, Worcester, MA (Sept. 23-25, 2005)
François Raffoul, "Heidegger and the Origins of Responsibility." Mid-South Philosophy Conference. University of Memphis (Feb. 22-23, 2002)
Suma Rajiva, "The Autonomy of Taste and the Limits of Reason: Kant’s Dialectic of Aesthetic Judgment." Mid-South Philosophy Conference. University of Memphis (Feb. 23-24, 2001)
Gregory Walters, "Karl Jaspers’ Encompassing Faith." North American Jaspers Society. Eastern APA. New York (December 27, 2000)
Further Experience
Memberships (long-term)
2000-ongoing: American Philosophical Association
2003-ongoing: International Association for Environmental Philosophy
2003-ongoing: Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
2000-ongoing: Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
International and Foreign Language Study
1999: Participation in the Collegium Phaenomenologicum: Phenomenological Life, Material Life. Citta di Castello, Italy
1998-1999: DAAD (Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst) supported dissertation research at the Ruhr‑Universität‑Bochum and Bergische‑Universität‑Wuppertal. Advisor: Frithjof Rodi
1998: Participation in the Collegium Phaenomenologicum: Interpretation, Truth and Translation. Perugia, Italy
1995: Summer research semester and course-work at the Johann‑Goethe‑Universität in Frankfurt on Kant's aesthetics, moral philosophy, and philosophy of history
1991-1992: Study of Philosophy at the Ludwig‑Maximilians‑Universität in München
1989-1990: Study of the German language at the Goethe Institute and University of Heidelberg