Humanities and Social Sciences

Philosophy Program

Staff Profiles

Research Interests

• Contemporary European Philosophy (esp. Derrida and Deleuze)
• Existentialism and Phenomenology (esp. Sartre, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty)
• Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy
• Political Philosophy
• Philosophy of Time
• Philosophy of the Body (intersections of phenomenology, cognitive science, etc.)
  
  
  Area editor of Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  

Selected publications:

Monographs
Understanding Existentialism, Stocksfield, UK: Acumen Publishing, 2006, (copublished in US with McGill-Queens 2006), ISBN 1-84465-043-X.

Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8214-1592-1.

Analytic Versus Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy, co-authored with James Chase, Stocksfield, UK: Acumen Publishing (Uncompleted but contracted, to be published in 2009)

Chronopathologies: Violence and the Politics of Time in Deleuze, Derrida, Analytic Political Philosophy and Phenomenology, contracted Rowman and Littlefield, Lexington Books 2010.

Edited Book Collections
Postanalytic and Metacontinental: The Futures of Philosophy? co-edited with James Chase, James Williams, Edwin Mares, contracted and forthcoming, London: Continuum 2009.

Global Arts / Local Knowledge , coedited with Helene Frichot, Felicity Colman, forthcoming Lexington Books, IAPL Textures series, 2009.

Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts, co-edited with Rosalyn Diprose (50/50), Stocksfield, UK: Acumen Publishing, 2008.

Understanding Derrida, co-edited with Jonathan Roffe (50/50), London: Continuum Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-8264-7316-4.

Edited Journals
"Derrida and Life/Death", Derrida Today, forthcoming Vol.4, November 2009.

"The Implicit and Presupposed Theological Turn in Phenomenology", Sophia: An International Journal of Theology, Metaphysics and Religion, forthcoming October 2008.

Refereed Articles

“The Master-slave dialectic and the ‘sado-masochistic entity': Some Deleuzian Objections”, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities , forthcoming 2009.

"Chickening Out and the Idea of Continental Philosophy: A Reply to Simon Glendinning", International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2008, with reply from Professor Simon Glendinning.

"Touched by Time: Some Critical Reflections on Derrida's Reading of Merleau-Ponty in Le Toucher" submitted to IAPL Textures volume, New York: Lexington Books.

Editorial, "The Implicit and Presupposed Theological Turn in Phenomenology", Sophia: An International Journal of Theology, Metaphysics and Religion, forthcoming 2008.

"Derrida, Friendship, and the Transcendental Priority of the 'Untimely'", Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 34 2008.

"Transcendental Priority and Deleuzian Normativity: Reply to James Williams", Deleuze Studies, Vol. 3, June 2008, ISSN 1750-2241.

"Deleuze’s other-structure: beyond the master-slave dialectic but at what cost?", forthcoming Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, ISSN 1480-2333, March 2008.

"Wounds and Scars: Deleuze on the Time (and the Ethics) of the Event", Deleuze Studies, Vol. 2, December 2007, p.144-66, ISSN 1750-2241, with reply in following issue from Professor James Williams.

“Deleuze and Dreyfus on l’habitude, coping and trauma in skill acquisition”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4, December 2006, p.563-83, ISSN 0967-2559.

“Sadism and Masochism – A Symptomatology of Analytic and Continental Philosophy?” Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, Volume 1, June 2006, p.88-111, ISSN 1834-3287.

“Negotiating the non-negotiable: Rawls, Derrida, and the intertwining of political calculation and ultra-politics”, Theory and Event, Volume 9, Issue 3, August 2006, E-ISSN: 1092-311X.

“Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty: Immanence, Univocity, and Phenomenology”, co-authored with Jonathan Roffe (50/50), The Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology, Vol. 37, No. 3, October 2006, p.228-51.

“Derrida and Deleuze on Time and the Future”, Borderlands: New Spaces in the Humanities, Vol. 3, No. 1, May 2004, ISSN 1447-0810.

“Possible and Impossible, Self and Other, and the Reversibility of Merleau-Ponty and Derrida”, Philosophy Today, Issue 1, Vol. 48, 2004, p.35–49, ISSN 0031-8256.

“Habituality and Undecidability: A Comparison of Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on the Decision”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Volume 10, No 4, November 2002, p.449–466, ISSN 0967-2559.

“Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and the Alterity of the Other” in Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Volume 6, No 1, 2002, p.63–78, ISSN 1480-2333.

“Kirby, ‘Corporeography’ and the Question of an Embodied Deconstruction” in Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy, Issue 3, 2002, p.133–47, ISSN 1433-7919.

“The Other of Derridean Deconstruction: Levinas, Phenomenology and the Question of Responsibility”, Minerva, Issue 5, 2001, p.31-62, ISSN 1393-614X.

Long and substantive entry on “Jacques Derrida”, Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, ed. Fieser, J., 2002, no ISSN, but dual-refereed.

Long and substantive entry on “Maurice Merleau-Ponty”, Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, ed. Fieser, J., 2001, no ISSN, but dual-refereed.

Introduction for entry on ‘Husserl', Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy , ed. Fieser, J., 2001, no ISSN, but dual-refereed.


Chapters in Books
"Time and politics: analytic and continental philosophy today", Philosophy in Australasia , ed. Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis, forthcoming New York: Lexington Books 2009.

"The Fate of the Transcendental" and "Common sense and Theoretical Conservatism" in Postanalytic and Metacontinental: The Futures of Philosophy? ed. Williams, Reynolds, Chase and Mares, forthcoming London: Continuum, 2009

"Post-structuralism" in A Companion to Australasian Philosophy (Monash E-press, forthcoming 2009).

"Post-structuralism" and "Maurice Merleau-Ponty" in Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy , forthcoming London: Continuum, 2009.

"Merleau-Ponty: Life and Works", Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts (Chesham, UK: Acumen Publishing, 2008).

Chapter entitled "Decision" in Understanding Derrida , eds. Reynolds and Roffe (London: Continuum, 2004) ISBN 0-8264-7316-4.

Co-author, with Jonathan Roffe (50/50), of chapter entitled "Introduction: An Invitation to Philosophy" in Understanding Derrida , eds. Reynolds and Roffe (London: Continuum, 2004) ISBN 0-8264-7316-4.