CURRICULUM VITAE
Eric S. Nelson, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Lowell
1 University Avenue,
Lowell, MA 01854 USA
Email / Tel: 978-934-3996 /
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Summary
Areas of Specialization
Critical Social Theory, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, 19th- and 20th-Century German Philosophy
Early Chinese, Chinese Buddhist, and Intercultural Philosophy
Areas of Concentration
Aesthetics, Ethics, Environmental Ethics and Politics, Philosophy of Nature
Education
2002: Ph.D. in Philosophy from Emory University (Atlanta, GA). Dissertation Title: Time, History, and Facticity
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 and in production)
VOLUMES
Edited Anthologies
(In Process) John Drabinski and E. S.
Nelson, Between Levinas and Heidegger (Albany: SUNY Press)
François Raffoul and E. S. Nelson, Rethinking Facticity (Albany: SUNY Press, 2008).
Reviewed in:
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Symposium: The Canadian
Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale, 2009. Vol. 13:1, 2009: 137-140
·
Fenomenologia e società,
XXXII, 2, 2009, 169-171.
E. S. Nelson, Antje Kapust, and Kent Still, Addressing Levinas (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2005).
Reviewed in:
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Cahiers d’études lévinassiennes (ISBN: 2-86432-470-9), 5,
2006: 398-407
·
Philosophy in Review (Comptes rendus
philosophiques) (1206-5269), Vol. 26, 3, June 2006: 216-218
·
Revue Philosophique de la France et de l’Etranger
(0035-3833), Vol. 196, 1: Jan, 2006: 86-88
·
Symploke (1069-0697), 13.1-2, Winter-Spring 2005: 352-354
·
Notre Dame Philosophical
Reviews (1538-1617), Nov. 2005
Edited Journals
Managing Co-Editor
(2009-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
CONTRIBUTIONS (Journals and
Anthologies)
Journal Articles
(Forthcoming) “Dialectic of Environment: Nature as Ideology and Ethics in Adorno and the Frankfurt School.” Telos, 2011.
(Forthcoming) “Impure Phenomenology: Dilthey, Epistemology, and Interpretive Psychology.” Studia Phaenomenologica, vol. 10, 2010.
(Forthcoming)
“Self-Reflection, Interpretation, and Historical Life in Dilthey.” Dilthey
International Yearbook for Philosophy and the Human Sciences, vol. 1, 2010.
(Forthcoming) “Levinas,
Asymmetrical Ethics, and Social-Political Equality.”
MonoKL: International Emmanuel Levinas
Issue, Spring 2010.
“Interpreting the Language
of Factical Life: The Aporias of Transcendental Philosophy and Heidegger’s Early
Hermeneutics.” Vox Philosophiae,
3/2009:
50-75.
“Religious Crisis, Ethical
Life, and Kierkegaard’s Critique of Christendom.” Acta Kierkegaardiana,
“Kierkegaard and the Religious Crisis of the 19th Century,” Vol. 4, 2009:
170-186.
“Leibniz and China: Religion, Hermeneutics, and Enlightenment.” Religion in the Age of Enlightenment (RAE), vol. 1 (2009), 277-300. // Earlier short conference version published as “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).
“Responding with dao:
Early Daoist Ethics and the Environment.”
Philosophy East West, 59:3
(July 2009): 294-316.
“Levinas and Early
Confucian Ethics: Religion, Rituality, and the Sources of Morality.”
Levinas Studies, Vol. 4, ed. Jeffrey Bloechl (Pittsburgh: Duquesne
University Press, 2009), 177-207, endnotes: 231-237.
“Interpreting Practice:
Epistemology, Hermeneutics, and Historical Life in Dilthey.” Idealistic
Studies, 38:1-2, 2008: 105-122.
“Heidegger and the
Questionability of the Ethical.” Studia Phaenomenologica, Vol. VIII,
2008: 395-419.
“Questioning Dao:
Skepticism, Mysticism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi.” International
Journal of the Asian Philosophical Association, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2008: 5-19.
“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.
“Responding to Heaven and
Earth: Daoism, Heidegger and Ecology.” Environmental Philosophy, Vol. 1,
No. 2, Fall 2004, 65-74.
“Moral and Political
Prudence in Kant.” International Philosophical Quarterly, 44: 3, Sept.
2004, 305-319. // Earlier shorter 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).
“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.
“Faith and Knowledge: Karl
Jaspers on Communication and the Encompassing.” Existentia, Volume
13/3-4, 2003, 207-218.
(In German) “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.
(In German) “Ansprechen und
Auseinandersetzung: Heidegger und die Frage nach der Vereinzelung von Dasein.”
Existentia, Vol. 10/1-4, 2000, 113-122.
Contributions to
Anthologies, Collections, and Conference Based Volumes
(In Process) “Language,
Nature, and the Self: The Feeling of Life in Kant and Dilthey.”
Kant and the Problem of Language: Essays in Criticism, eds. Frank
Schalow and Richard Velkley
(In Process) “Levinas and Adorno: Can there be an Ethics of Nature?” Faces of Nature: Levinasian Ethics and Environmental Philosophy, eds. William Edelglass, Jim Hatley, and Chris Diehm.
(In Process) “History, Event, and Alterity in Heidegger and Levinas.” Between Levinas and Heidegger, eds. John Drabinski and E. S. Nelson
(In Process)
“Individuation, Responsiveness, Translation: Heidegger’s Ethics.”
Heidegger, Translation, and the Task of Thinking: Essays in Honor of
Parvis Emad, ed.
Frank Schalow
(Forthcoming) “Freedom as Promise and Pathology.” Clemens Sedmak (ed.), Grundwerte Europas, Band 2: Freiheit: Vom Wert der Autonomie (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftlichen Buchgesellschaft, 2010)
(Forthcoming) “China, Nature, and the Sublime in Kant.” Stephen R. Palmquist (ed.), Cultivating Personhood: Kant and Asian Philosophy (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2010).
(Forthcoming)
“Schleiermacher and Dilthey.” History of Continental Philosophy: Volume 2;
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy: Revolutionary Responses to the Existing Order
(1840-1900), (series ed.) Alan D. Schrift and (vol. 2 ed.) Daniel Conway
(Acumen Press).
“Traumatic
Origins: History, Genealogy, and Violence in Nietzsche and Heidegger.”
Heidegger und Nietzsche, ed.
B. Babich , A. Denker, and H. Zaborowski (Rodopi, 2010), 291-299.
“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), 189-204.
“Recognition,
Responsiveness and Misrecognition.” The Good Society, Volume 18, Number
1, 2009, 79-81.
“Virtue and Violence in
Therāvada and Sri Lankan Buddhism.” Buddhist Roles in Peacemaking, ed.
Chanju Mun and Ronald S. Green (Honolulu: Blue Pine Books, 2009), 199-233. //
Shorter Earlier Version published as “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.
“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 (London: Turnshare, 2008), 91-109. // Republished (slightly
revised) as “Levinas and Kierkegaard between Religion and Ethics,” Mondes
Francophones, Philosophies: 26/01/2009,
http://mondesfrancophones.com/espaces/philosophies/levinas-and-kierkegaard-between-religion-and-ethics/
“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.
“Heidegger and the Ethics
of Facticity.” Rethinking Facticity, ed. François Raffoul and Eric S.
Nelson (Albany: SUNY Press, 2008), 129-147.
“Schleiermacher and
Romanticism” in H. Dierkes, T. Tice, and W. Virmond, Schleiermacher,
Romanticism and the Critical Arts: A Festschrift in Honor of Hermann Patsch
(Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007), 99-114.
“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.
(In German) “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.
(In German) “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
(In Process) Jin Y. Park and Gereon Kopf, Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism (Lexington Books, 2009). H-Buddhism, 2010.
(Forthcoming) Thomas
Wheatland, The Frankfurt School in Exile (University
of Minnesota Press, 2009). Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2010.
(Forthcoming) Thomas Heyd,
Encountering Nature: Toward an Environmental Culture (Ashgate, 2007).
Environmental Philosophy, Vol. 6:2, 2009.
William Edelglass and Jay
L. Garfield, Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings (Oxford University
Press, 2009). H-Buddhism (October, 2009),
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24737
Lin Ma, Heidegger on
East-West Dialogue: Anticipating the Event (Routledge, 2008). Notre Dame
Philosophical Reviews, 2009, 2009.03.35,
http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=15705
Samuel Moyn, Origins of
the other: Emmanuel Levinas between revelation and ethics (Cornell , 2005).
Studia Phaenomenologica, Vol. VI, 2006: 436-439.
Russell Kirkland,
Taoism: The Enduring Tradition (Routledge, 2004). China Review
International, Vol. 13:2, Fall 2006: 432-434.
Simon P. James, Zen
Buddhism and Environmental Ethics (Ashgate, 2004). Journal of Buddhist
Ethics, Vol. 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, Vol. 28:2,
June 2005: 188-191.
Richard Detsch, Rilke’s
Connections to Nietzsche (University Press of America, 2003). German
Studies Review, Vol. 28: 2, May 2005: 418-419.
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, Vol.
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, Vol. 72:1,
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, Vol. 42:1, Jan.
2004: 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, Vol. 2:3, 2003: 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, Vol. 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.
(In German) Kimberly
Hutchings, Kant, Critique and Politics (Routledge 1996).
Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, Band 52, Heft 3, 1999.
Short Book Reviews
(In Process) Philip J. Harold, Prophetic politics: Emmanuel Levinas and the sanctification of suffering (Ohio University, 2009). CHOICE, 2010.
Philip J. Kain, Nietzsche and the Horror of Existence (Lexington, 2009). CHOICE:
Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 47-2487, Jan. 2010.
Diane Perpich, The
Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas (Stanford, 2008). CHOICE: Current Reviews for
Academic Libraries, 46-4960, May 2009.
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 Philosophy (Spring 2009 x2)
45.203
Introduction to Ethics (Fall 2007, Fall 2006 x2,
Fall 2005 x2)
45.206
Introduction to Political Philosophy (Spring 2010, Fall
2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006)
45.371 Buddhist and Zen Philosophy (Spring 2010, Fall 2008)
45.372 Chinese Philosophy (Fall 2010)
45.342
Critical Theory and Society (Fall 2010, Fall 2006)
45.348
Eastern Philosophy (Summer 2009, Fall 2007, Spring
2006)
45.352
Existence and Anxiety: Existentialism (Spring
2009, 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 (Spring 2010, 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)
45.491 Directed Studies: Recent French Philosophy (Fall 2008)
45.491 Directed Studies: Hegel (Spring
2010)
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 (Since 1999)
Awards, Fellowships, and
Residencies
·
2009, Fall Semester:
Scholar in Residence in social ethics at the
International Research Center for Social and
Ethical Questions
(University of Salzburg)
·
2009, May 28-June 13:
Visiting Scholar, Dharma Drum Buddhist College
法鼓佛教學院 (Jinshan, Taiwan)
·
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 Bochu
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: Acumen Publishers,
Blackwell Publishing, Continuum, Duquesne University Press, Fordham University
Press, Northwestern University Press, Ohio University Press, Oxford University
Press, Routledge, SUNY Press, and University of Toronto Press.
·
Referee for the journals: Dao: A Journal of
Comparative Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy, Epoché: A Journal for
the History of Philosophy, Philosophy East West, Sophia:
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and
Ethics, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy.
Conference and Society
Organizational Activities
·
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, Kent Still. Addressing Levinas. 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
(Note that related talks are grouped together)
Lectures (Accepted and
Invited)
Dilthey and the Question of Nature. Invited Conference Lecture, Anthropology and History: International Dilthey Conference, Accademia di studi italo-tedeschi, Merano, Italy (Sept. 27-Oct. 2, 2011)
Emptiness and Responsiveness: Chan Buddhism and Environmental Ethics. Conference Lecture, XVIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Jinshan, Taiwan (June 20-25, 2011)
The Vienna Circle in Context: Cosmopolitanism, Pedagogy, and Politics. Conference Lecture, The City of Others: Cosmopolitanism in German-Jewish Thought and Cultural Practice (1860-1950), London (Nov. 10-12, 2010)
Does Early Daoism Forget the Human? Zhuangzi, Naturalism, and Ethics. Invited Conference Lecture, Daoist Ways of Thought, First Daoist Salon, Zhengzhou, China (March 21-27, 2010)
How Inhuman is the Dao? Reconsidering Humanity and Nature in Early Daoism. Conference Lecture, SACP Panel, Central APA, Chicago (Feb. 18, 2010)
Ethical Dimensions of Kant’s Critique of Judgment and the Zhuangzi. Conference Lecture, ISCP Panel, Eastern APA, New York (Dec. 27-30, 2009)
Tolerance, Power, and Difference. Invited Conference Lecture, Tolerance in Europe: Definition, Reality, Limits, University of Salzburg (Nov. 25, 2009)
Dilthey, Carnap, and Heidegger: The Feeling of Life, the Scientific Worldview, and the Overcoming of Metaphysics. Invited Lecture, Werkstatt Philosophie, Technische Universität Dresden (Nov. 10, 2009)
Interpreting Life: Naturalism and Lebensphilosophie in Nietzsche. Invited Lecture, Colloquium, Technische Universität Dresden (Nov. 9, 2009)
Who is the other to me? Levinas, Asymmetrical Ethics, and Social-Political Equality. Invited Lecture, International Research Center for Social and Ethical Questions, University of Salzburg (Sept. 24); Invited Lecture and Text-Workshop, University of Vienna (Nov. 2 and 3, 2009)
Dilthey, Carnap, and
Heidegger: The Feeling of Life, the Scientific Worldview, and the Overcoming of
Metaphysics. Conference
Lecture, Positivismus, Macht, Aufklärung Conference, Austrian Academy
of Sciences, Vienna (Sept. 17-18, 2009)
Nietzsche, Naturalism, and
the Hermeneutics of Nature.
Conference Lecture, 17th
International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, Nietzsche on
Mind and Nature, St. Peter’s College, Oxford (Sept. 11-13, 2009)
Aesthetics, Nature, and
Modernity in Adorno and Habermas.
Conference Lecture, Aesthetics and Modernity from Schiller to
Marcuse, University of London (Sept. 10-11, 2009)
Reconsidering Humanity and
Nature in the Zhuangzi /
對《莊子》之人性與自然的再認識. Conference
Lecture, Fifth International Daoist Studies Conference, Wudangshan (June
18-22, 2009)
Buddhist Emptiness and
Western Philosophy. Invited Lecture,
Dharma Drum Buddhist College
法鼓佛教學院 , Jinshan, Taiwan (June 9, 2009)
Power, Religion, and
Suffering in Nietzsche. Invited Lecture,
Shenzhen University
深圳大学 (May 26, 2009)
The Human, the Natural, and
the Sublime in Kant and the Zhuangzi.
Conference Lecture, Kant in Asia: The
Unity of Human Personhood, Hong Kong (May 20-23, 2009)
Habermas, Adorno, and the
Aesthetics of Nature.
Conference Lecture, American Society for Aesthetics. Annual Meeting,
Northampton, MA (Nov. 5 - 8, 2008)
Suffering History in
Nietzsche and Adorno.
Conference Lecture, 47th Annual SPEP Conference, Duquesne University
(October 16-18, 2008)
Levinas, Asymmetrical
Ethics, and Global Justice.
Conference Lecture, American Political Science Association Annual
Meeting, Boston, MA (August 28-31, 2008)
Virtues and Encounters: Zen
Buddhism, Ethics, and the Environment.
Conference Lecture, 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.
Conference Lecture, International
Association for Environmental Philosophy Eleventh Annual Meeting, Chicago
(November 10-12, 2007); Conference
Lecture, 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.
Conference Lecture, 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.
Conference Lecture, Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. Central
APA, Chicago (April 17-20, 2008)
Can Nature be Reified?
Animals, Environments, and the Frankfurt School.
Conference Lecture,
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.
Conference Lecture, Northeastern
Political Science Association 2006 Annual Meeting. Boston (Nov. 9-11, 2006);
Nature, Domination, and the Dialectic of Enlightenment.
Conference Lecture, 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.
Conference Lecture, Society for
Phenomenology and the Human Sciences Annual Conference, Chicago (Nov. 8-10,
2007)
Heidegger and the Language
of Factical Life.
Conference Lecture, 46th Annual Society for Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy Conference, Chicago (November 8-10, 2007)
Violence, Trauma and
Religious Culture in Nietzsche’s Genealogies.
Conference Lecture,
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.
Conference Lecture,
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.
Conference Lecture, Second New England Seminar in Continental
Philosophy at Boston College (April 21, 2007); Ethics and Religion in
Kierkegaard and Levinas. Conference
Lecture, 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.
Conference Lecture, VIIIth
International Leibniz Congress: Unity in Plurality. University of Hannover (July
24-29, 2006); Reason and Interpretation: Leibniz, Wolff, and China.
Conference Lecture, German Studies
Association Conference. New Orleans (September 18-21, 2003)
Being without Desire and
Doing as One Pleases in the Zhuangzi.
Conference Lecture, 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. Conference Lecture,
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.
Conference Lecture,
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.” Conference Lecture,
German Studies Association Conference. Atlanta (Oct. 7-10, 1999)
Heidegger on Ontological
and Ontic Difference.
Conference Lecture, Fourth Aussprache zu Martin Heidegger
Conference. Bergische-Universität-Wuppertal (June 1-3, 2006)
History and Poesis. Conference
Lecture, 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.
Conference Lecture, 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?
Conference Lecture, Society of Asian and
Comparative Philosophy. American Philosophical Association Central Division.
Chicago (April 26-29, 2006)
Virtue and Violence in
Theravāda Buddhist Ethics.
Conference Lecture, 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. Conference Lecture,
Association for Asian Studies. Chicago (March 31-April 3, 2005)
Questioning Karma: Buddhism
and the Phenomenology of Ethical Life.
Conference Lecture, 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. Conference
Lecture, 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.
Conference Lecture, American Academy
of Religion Eastern International Meeting. McGill University, Montreal (May 6-7,
2005); Moral Responsiveness in Levinas and Mengzi (Mencius).
Conference Lecture, 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.
Conference Lecture, 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.
Conference Lecture, 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.
Conference Lecture, 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.
Conference Lecture, Third Aussprache zu Heidegger Conference.
Bergische-Universität-Wuppertal (June 3-5, 2004); (In German) Die formale
Anzeige der Faktizität und die Frage der Logik.
Conference Lecture, 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.
Conference Lecture, 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. Conference Lecture,
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. Conference
Lecture, International Society for Chinese Philosophy. Eastern APA.
Washington DC (Dec. 27-30, 2003)
Schleiermacher’s
“Romanticism”: On the Singular, the Whole, and the Unconditional. Conference
Lecture, American Academy of Religion. Atlanta (November 22-25, 2003)
Empiricism and
Lebensphilosophie: Reading Dilthey after Deleuze.
Conference Lecture, 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. Conference
Lecture, Society for the Philosophy of History at the Central APA. Cleveland
(April 23-26, 2003); Heidegger on Deciding between History and Non-History.
Conference Lecture, Interpreting the
Beiträge. University of North Texas at Denton (April 18-20, 2001);
Facticity and Event: Heidegger and the Question of History.
Conference Lecture, Society for the Philosophy of History. Eastern
APA. New York (Dec. 29, 2000)
Interpretation, the
Life-World, and Social Criticism in Habermas.
Conference Lecture, 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.
Conference Lecture, 26th IAPL Conference. Erasmus University of
Rotterdam (June 3-8, 2002); Rethinking History after Dilthey.
Conference Lecture, Society for the
Philosophy of History Meeting at the Eastern APA. Atlanta (December 27-30, 2001)
Violence, Pain, and
Heidegger’s Thinking of History.
Conference Lecture, Second Aussprache zu Heidegger.
Bergische-Universität-Wuppertal (May 31- June 2, 2002); Violence, Trauma,
History: Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics.
Conference Lecture, 40th SPEP Conference. Goucher College (October
4-6, 2001)
Dilthey and Heidegger on
Hermeneutics and Factical Life.
Conference Lecture, 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.
Conference Lecture, Tennessee Philosophical Association. Vanderbilt
University (November 3, 2001)
Habermas and the Dialectic
of Enlightenment.
Conference Lecture, Mid-South Philosophy Conference. University of
Memphis (Feb. 22-23, 2002)
Formal Indication and the
Facticity of Life.
Conference Lecture, Thinking with & against Heidegger. Emory
University (May 6, 2001); Heidegger and the Question of Facticity.
Conference Lecture, North Texas
Philosophical Association Conference. Dallas (April 21, 2001); Heidegger and
the Question of Facticity. Conference
Lecture, Mid-South Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis (Feb. 23-24,
2001)
When does Hermeneutics
begin? Conference
Lecture, 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.
Conference Lecture, 39th SPEP Conference. Pennsylvania State
University (October 5-7, 2000); Heidegger and the Facticity of Life.
Conference Lecture, Collegium
Phaenomenologicum. Citta di Castello (July 10-30, 1999)
Faith and Knowledge: Karl
Jaspers on Communication and the Encompassing.
Conference Lecture, North American
Jaspers Society Meeting. Eastern APA. New York (December 28, 2000).
Communication and the
Ineffable: Schleiermacher and the Limits of Hermeneutics.
Conference Lecture, Schleiermacher as
Philosopher and Philosophical Theologian. Drew University (April 6-9, 2000).
Kant and the Art of
Political Prudence.
Conference Lecture, 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.
Conference Lecture, Bergische-Universität-Wuppertal (June 12-13,
1999) and (In German) Heidegger und die Vereinzelung des Mitseins.
Conference Lecture, 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.
Conference Lecture,
The Other. University of Münster (Feb. 26-28, 1999)
Discussant or Respondent
(Invited)
·
Claudia Leeb, “The Politics
of Misrecognition: A Feminist Critique” and Jacob Schiff, “Inclusion and the
Cultivation of Responsiveness.” 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)