Professor Smyth has served as Visiting Assistant Professor since 2008, prior to which he held a visiting appointment at Mount Allison University. He received his PhD from McGill University in 2006, and also holds a DEA (Diplôme d’études approfondies) from Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), and an MA from the University of Waterloo.

His main research and teaching interests are in social and political philosophy, working primarily (but not exclusively) within the traditions of phenomenology and critical theory. Dr. Smyth has published articles in Chiasmi International, PhaenEx, Philosophy Today, Continental Philosophy Review, and International Journal of Philosophical Studies. He is currently working on several projects centered on the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, as well as other projects more broadly concerned with phenomenological methodology, and the problem of reification as it relates to questions of oppression, political judgment, and historical agency.

Dr. Smyth was awarded the 2010 Junior Scholar Award from the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, and also serves on the executive committee of the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture.

Curriculum Vitae

"The Meontic and the Militant: On Merleau-Ponty's Relation to Fink," International Journal of Philosophical Studies 19:5 (2011): 669-699.

"Generating Sense: Schizophrenia and Phenomenological Praxis," Schutzian Research 3 (2011): 121-132.

"Foucault and Binswanger: Beyond the Dream," Philosophy Today 55 (2011 SPEP Supplement): 92-101.

Review of Erika Abrams and Ivan Chvatík (eds.), Jan Patočka and the Heritage of Phenomenology: Centenary Papers (Springer 2010), Philosophy in Review 31:5 (2011): 310-313.

Review of Ted Toadvine, Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Nature (Northwestern UP, 2009), Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy 15:2 (2011): 251-255.

Review of Kascha Sanvely and Neal Deroo (eds.), Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Art, Religion and Perception (Continuum, 2010), Philosophy in Review 31:1 (2011): 70-73.

"Heroism and History in Merleau-Ponty's Existential Phenomenology," Continental Philosophy Review 43:2 (2010): 167-191.

"Merleau-Ponty and the 'Naturalization' of Phenomenology," Philosophy Today 54 (2010 SPEP Supplement): 153-162.

Review of Matthew Ratcliffe, Feelings of Being: Phenomenology, Psychiatry and the Sense of Reality (Oxford UP, 2008), Philosophy in Review 30:2 (2010): 132-134.

"On the Methodological Role of Marxism in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (October 2011).

"Time to Heal? Merleau-Ponty's Temporal Remedy and Cailloisian Myth," A past that has never been present: Art / Philosophy / History (June 2011).

Commentary on Idil Boran, "The Problem of Exogeneity in Debates on Global Justice," American Philosophical Association (Central) (April 2011).

"Transcendental Humour? — On the Rhetoric of Phenomenology," Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy (November 2010).

"Foucault and Binswanger: Beyond the Dream," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (November 2010).

"Merleau-Ponty and Transcendental Philosophy," Canadian Philosophical Association (June 2010).