Current Research and Work in Progress

Levinas on Obligation

Levinas’s Critique of Phenomenology

The Concept of Meaning in Phenomenology

Selected Publications

“Levinas and the Possibility of History,” Philosophy Today (SPEP Supplement 2004), forthcoming 2005.

“Truth and Evidence in Descartes and Levinas.” Current Continental Theory and Modern Philosophy. Ed. Stephen H. Daniel. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, forthcoming 2005.

“Meaning, Categories, and Subjectivity in the Early Heidegger.” Philosophy and Social Criticism. 31(1) (2005): 21-35.

“The Other Side of Intentionality.” Addressing Levinas. Ethics, Phenomenology and the Judaic Tradition. Eds. Eric Nelson, Antje Kapust, and Kent Still. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2005, pp. 109-118.

“Thinking through Singularity and Universality in Levinas.” Philosophy Today 47(5) (SPEP Supp. 2003): 147-153.

“Terrence Malick’s Heideggerian Cinema: War and the Question of Being in The Thin Red Line.” Poetic Visions of America: The Cinema of Terrence Malick. Ed. Hannah Patterson, London: Wallflower Press, 2003. (Co-authored with Marc Furstenau)

“Overturning Cartesianism and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Rethinking Dreyfus on Heidegger.” Inquiry 44(4) (Dec. 2001): 455-480.

“Dasein’s Fulfillment: The Intentionality of Authenticity.” Auslegung 23(1) (Wint./Spring 2000): 35-62.

Selected Paper Presentations

“The Force of Obligation in Levinas.” Presented at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Salt Lake City, UT, 20-22 October 2005; presented at the American Academy of Religion – Eastern International Region, Montreal, Canada, 6-7 May 2005.

“Levinas and the Problem of the Other.” Presented at the International Society for Phenomenological Studies meeting, Pacific Grove, CA, 26-30 June 2005.

“The Intrigue of Logic and Being in Heidegger’s Early Work.” Presented at the University of North Carolina, Asheville Philosophy Department Colloquium. 18 November 2004.

“Levinas and the Possibility of History.” Presented at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN, 28-30 October 2004; presented at the Society for Philosophy of History, Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL, 23 April 2004.

“The Intrigue of Grammar, Logic, and Being in Heidegger’s Early Work.” Presented at Heidegger Aussprache, Wuppertal, Germany, 5 June 2004.

“Thinking through Singularity and Universality in Levinas.” Presented at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 8 November 2003.

“Singularity and Universality: Responsibility and the Imperative in Levinas and Kant.” Presented at the University of Western Ontario, London, ON, 6 March 2003. (invited colloquium paper)

“Traversing Intentionality: Levinas on Sensibility and Proximity.” Presented at the Tennessee Philosophical Association, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 3 November 2001 and at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Annual Meeting, State College, PA, 5-7 October 2000.

“Meaning, Categories, and Subjectivity in the Early Heidegger.” Presented at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Annual Meeting, Goucher College, Towson, MD, 4-6 October 2001.

“Truth and Evidence in Descartes and Levinas.” Presented at the Recent Continental Thought and Early Modern Philosophy Conference, College Station, TX, 21-23 September 2000.