Staff profile

Dr Jack Alan Reynolds

Associate Professor, Philosophy Program Coordinator

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

HU2 203, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons-Melbourne), PhD (ANU).

Membership of professional Associations

Australasian Association of Philosophy, Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy, Merleau-Ponty Circle.

Area of study

European Studies
Philosophy

Brief Profile

Jack Reynolds is Associate Professor and Philosophy Program Coordinator at La Trobe University. He has written four books: Chronopathologies: The Politics of Time in Deleuze, Derrida, Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology (Lexington Books 2012), Analytic Versus Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy (Acumen 2010, with James Chase), Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity (Ohio 2004), Understanding Existentialism (Acumen 2006). He has also co-edited four collections: Continuum Companion to Existentialism (2011), Postanalytic and Metacontinental: Crossing Philosophical Divides (Continuum 2010), Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts (Acumen 2008) and Understanding Derrida (Continuum 2004). He is currently doing research on inter-subjectivity and the perception of others, drawing on the phenomenological tradition as well as findings in developmental psychology and the cognitive sciences.

Research interests

History of Philosophy

- Contemporary European Philosophy

Philosophy of the Mind

- Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy

- Existentialism and Phenomenology

- Metaphilosophy and Methodology

Political Theory and Political Philosophy

- Political Philosophy

Teaching Units

  • PHI1PPR - Philosophical Problems.
  • PHI2/3BAW - Being and World.
  • PHI2/3LDM - Love, Desire and the Master-slave Dialectic.
  • PHI2/3PMP – Postmodernism.
  • PHI2/3VML - Values, Meaning and the Good Life.

Recent Publications

Books

  • Reynolds, J 2010, Chronopathologies: Time and Transcendental Philosophy, New York: Lexington Books.
  • Reynolds, J 2010, Analytic Versus Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy (Acumen with James Chase).
  • Reynolds, J 2004, Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity, Athens: Ohio University Press.
  • Reynolds, J 2006, Understanding Existentialism, Chesham, UK: Acumen Publishing, (co-published McGill-Queens).

 Some Recent Articles and Chapters

  • ‘Common Sense and Methodology: Some metaphilosophical reflections on Deleuze and Analytic Philosophy’, Philosophical Forum, forthcoming July 2010.
  • ‘Problem(s) of Other Minds: Solutions and Dissolutions in Analytic and Continental Philosophy, Philosophy Compass, 2010.
  • ‘The Fate of the Transcendental in Contemporary Philosophy”, (with James Chase) Postanalytic and Metacontinental, eds. Reynolds, Chase, Williams, Mares, London: Continuum 2010.
  • ‘The Master-slave dialectic and the “sado-masochistic entity’': Some Objections", Angelaki, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2009, p11-25.
  • ‘Derrida, Friendship, and the Transcendental Priority of the 'Untimely’, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 37 2010.
  • ‘Continental Philosophy and Chickening Out’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol 17, No. 2 2009, p255-72.
  • ‘Touched by Time: Some Critical Reflections on Derrida's Reading of Merleau-Ponty in Le Toucher’, Sophia, Vol. 47, No. 3, October 2008, p311-25.
  • ‘Transcendental Priority and Deleuzian Normativity: Reply to James Williams’, Deleuze Studies, Vol. 3, June 2008, p 101-8.
  • ‘Deleuze's other-structure: beyond the master-slave dialectic but at what cost?’, Symposium, Vol 12, No. 1, Spring 2008, p67-88. 
  • ‘Wounds and Scars: Deleuze on the Time (and the Ethics) of the Event, Deleuze Studies, Vol. 2 2007, p144-66.
  • ‘Deleuze and Dreyfus on l'habitude, coping and trauma in skill acquisition’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2006, p563-83.
  • ‘Negotiating the non-negotiable: Rawls, Derrida, and the intertwining of political calculation and ultra-politics, Theory and Event, Volume 9, Issue 3 2006.
  • ‘Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty: Immanence, Univocity, and Phenomenology’, co-authored with Jonathan Roffe (50/50), Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology, Vol. 37, No. 3 2006, p228-51.

Interviews

Research projects

Jack is currently doing research on two main areas in which he holds Australian Research Council Discovery grants: methodological comparisons and evaluations between analytic and continental philosophers; and he is also exploring the relationship between ways of conceptualising time and socio-political life, with a forthcoming book titled Chronopathologies.: Time and Transcendental Philosophy. He is also exploring issues in relation to the perception of other people, and aims to deploy phenomenological insights and recent discoveries in cognitive science to overturn the dominant ‘mind-reading’ paradigms, in which some kind of inference is said to be required for social cognition to be possible.