Personal Biography
I joined Corpus Christi in July 2017. Before that, I was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. And before that, I taught at Brigham Young University and Stanford Law School. I did an undergraduate degree in philosophy and political science at Brigham Young University, a master’s degree in philosophy at Boston College, a law degree (juris doctor) at Harvard University, and a PhD in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. I wrote my dissertation on the concept of truth (with a special focus on the thought of Martin Heidegger and Donald Davidson).
Research
I work in the existential and phenomenological tradition of European Philosophy. I’m particularly interested in the phenomenology of action and agency, and the phenomenology of religious life. In recent years, I’ve published a number of articles on authenticity (the ideal of being responsible for oneself – for who one is). I’ve also written about Kierkegaard’s existential account of human existence and the paradoxical character of religious faith. I’ve recently completed work on the Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon, which I edited and to which I contributed 25 entries. I’m putting the finishing touches on a collection of my essays, entitled Phenomenology and Human Existence (forthcoming, Oxford University Press). And I’m well underway on my next project – a book-length investigation into the concept of selfhood as it developed in 19th & 20th century European philosophy.
Teaching
• Post-Kantian Philosophy (at both the undergraduate and graduate level). I offer tutorials in all 7 figures on the Post-Kantian paper: Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty.
• Philosophy of Religion
• Ethics
• General Philosophy and Moral Philosophy
Selected Publications
Phenomenology and Human Existence (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2020).
The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2019).
The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger’s Being and Time (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Heidegger and Unconcealment: Truth, Language and History (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
How to Read Heidegger (London: Granta, 2005; U.S. edition: W. W. Norton, March 2006).