History of Philosophy

Faculty and students in the Department of Philosophy are engaged in ongoing research in the history of philosophy.

Faculty

Remy Debes (History of ethics, Scottish Enlightenment, Hume, Adam Smith)
Shaun Gallagher (Hegel, 20th-c. European philosophy)
Thomas Nenon (Kant, Hegel, German Idealism, history of phenomenology)
Timothy Roche (Ancient philosophy)

Current and Recent Research Projects

Aristotle's Nicomachean Conception of Happiness (Roche), Dignity: the history of a concept (Debes).

Recent and Upcoming Seminars

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Current PhD Students

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Recent Graduates

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Recent Publications and Work in Progress in this Area

Debes, R. (in press). Moral Rationalism and Moral Realism. In A. Garrett (ed.), Routledge Companion to 18th Century Philosophy

Debes, R. 2015. From Einfühlung to Empathy: Sympathy in Early Phenomenology and Psychology. In E. Schliesser (ed.), Sympathy: A History. New York: Oxford University Press.

Debes, R. 2013. "Moral Sentiments," International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. H. LaFollette, J. Deigh, and S. Stroud.

Debes, R. 2012. Adam Smith on Dignity and Equality, British Journal for the History of Philosophy.

Debes, R. 2012. Recasting Scottish Sentimentalism: The Peculiarity of Moral Approval. Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 10(1), 91-115.

Debes, R. 2007. Has anything changed? Hume's theory of association and sympathy after the Treatise. British journal for the history of philosophy, 15(2), 313-338.

Gallagher, S. (under review). Dilthey and empathy. In E. S. Nelson (ed.), Interpreting Dilthey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gallagher, S. (under review). Double phenomenology [at the Royaumont meeting in 1958]. Études Phénoménologiques / Phenomenological Studies.

Gallagher, S. (in press). Merleau-Ponty and the problem of consciousness. In S. Leach and J. Tartaglia (eds.), Consciousness and the Great Philosophers. London: Routledge.

Gallagher, S. 2013. Husserl and the phenomenology of temporality. In A. Bardon and H. Dyke (eds.). Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Time (135-50). Oxford: Blackwells.

Gallagher, S. and Jacobson, R. 2012. Heidegger and social cognition. In J. Kiverstein and M. Wheeler (eds.), Heidegger and Cognitive Science (213-45). London: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Gallagher, S. 2006. The Molyneux Problem. Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, edited by A. C. Grayling, Andrew Pyle, and Naomi Goulder. Thoemmes Continuum Press.

Gallagher S. and Crisafi, A. 2010. Hegel and the extended mind. Artificial Intelligence & Society. 25 (1): 123-29.

Nenon, T. 2015. Husserl's God in the Fichte lecture from 1917-1918. Archivio di filosofia= Archives of philosophy, 83(3), 27-36.

Nenon, T. 2014. Immanuel Kant’s turn to transcendental philosophy. In T. Nenon (ed.), Kant, Kantianism, and Idealism: The Origins of Continental Philosophy (15ff). London: Routledge.

Nenon, T. 2014 (ed). Kant, Kantianism, and Idealism: The Origins of Continental Philosophy. Routledge.

Nenon, T. J. 2013. Martin Heidegger and Grounding of Ethics. In Husserl’s Ideen (pp. 177-193). Springer Netherlands.

Nenon, T. 2013. Intersubjectivity, Interculturality, and Realities in Husserl’s Research Manuscripts on the Life-World (Hua XXXIX). In The Phenomenology of Embodied Subjectivity (pp. 143-163). Springer International Publishing.

Roche, T. (in prep). "The Alleged Distinction Between Makariotēs and Eudaimonia in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: Happiness, the Goods of Fortune, and Solon's Maxim."

Roche, T. (in prep). "The Ugly, the Lonely, and the Lowly: Reply to Professor Cashen on Aristotle's Discussions of Eudaimonia and Ta Ektos Agatha."

Roche, T. (in prep). "Agathoi and Kalokagathoi in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics."

Roche, T. 2014. "The Private Moral Life of Aristotle's Philosopher: A Defense of a Non-Intellectualist Interpretation of Nicomachean Ethics 10.7-8." In Contemplation in Aristotle's Ethics (a volume of the series Aristote. Traductions et Études), Pierre Destrée and M. Zingano, eds. Leuven: Peeters (2014) 207-239.

Roche, T. 2014. "Happiness and the External Goods." In The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, ed. Ronald Polansky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2014) 34-63.

Roche, T. 2009. "Happiness and Agency in the Stoics and Aristotle: Commentary on Russell." In Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, XXIV, John J. Cleary and Gary M. Gurtler, S.J., eds. Leiden/Boston: Brill (2009) 112-125.