Department of Philosophy

• B.A. St. John’s College (Annapolis MD), 1990
• M.A. Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)1998
• Ph.D. Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) 2001

• Hegel
• Kant and post-Kantian German Philosophy
• 19th Century Philosophy
• Philosophy of Literature

• Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
• The Philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel
• Introduction  to the Philosophy of Mind
• Philosophy of Literature
• 19th Century Philosophy
• Modern Philosophy
• Introduction to Epistemology

• Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2013).
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• "Spinozist Pantheism and the Truth of 'Sense Certainty'. What the Eleusinian Mysteries have to tell us about Hegel's Phenomenology", in Journal for the History of Philosophy 52 (2012).
  Winner, Best Article of 2012, Journal of the History of Philosophy
  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_philosophy/v050/
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• "On the Defense of Literary Value: From Early German Romanticism to Analytic Philosophy of Literature," in Dalia Nassar (ed.), The Relevance of Romanticism: Essays on German Romantic Philosophy (Oxford University Press 2013, forthcoming).
  
  
• “Labor, Publicity, and Bureaucracy: The Modernity of Hegel’s Civic Humanism,” in Hegel-Studien (forthcoming).
  
  
• A Conceptualist Reply to Hanna's Kantian Non-Conceptualism", International Journal of Philosophical Studies 19:3 (2012)
  A Conceptualist Reply to Hanna’s Kantian Nonconceptualism (pdf)
  
  
• "Goethean Morphology, Hegelian Science.  Affinities and Transformations" in ed. Elizabeth Millán/John Smith, Goethe Yearbook 18 (2011), S. 159-182.
  
  
• "Kraft und Verstand. Hegels Übergang zum Selbstbewußtsein in der Phänomenologie des Geistes", in Klaus Vieweg/Wolfgang Welsch (eds.) Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes. Ein kooperativer Kommentar zum einem Schlüsselwerk der Moderne. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp-Verlag 2008, pp. 153-168.
  Link to the English translation of this article
  
  
• (ed.) Literary Modes of Presentation in German Romanticism and German Idealism, Paderborn: Mentis-Verlag, 2007 (in German).
  
  
• (with Allen Speight). G. W. F. Hegel’s Heidelberg Writings. Translation and Commentary, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  
  
• Sense Certainty. On the Systematic Prehistory of a Problem in German Idealism (German: Sinnliche Gewißheit. Zur systematischen Vorgeschichte eines Problems des deutschen Idealismus), Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2003.
  Sinnliche Gewißheit. Zur systematischen Vorgeschichte eines Problems des deutschen Idealismus

I am currently finishing an article on the Neo-Platonic background of Hegel's philosophy of geometry and its relation to his conception of speculative science. 

A longer-term project is an investigation of the conceptual links between life, cognition, and value in post-Kantian philosophy.

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