David Johnson Accepts Tenure Track Position at Boston College

The Department of Philosophy at Penn State is very happy to congratulate David Johnson on his tenure track appointment as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston College.

“Penn State’s pluralistic outlook and sensitivity to the history of philosophy has done much to shape my approach to the subject, and is something that I expect will serve me well at BC.”

In March of 2013, David defended his dissertation entitled: “Language, Truth, and Reason: Gadamer with Nishida,”with Dennis Schmidt as the chair of a doctoral committee that included: Véronique Fóti, Len Lawlor, from Philosophy, and Thomas Beebee, from Comparative Literature and German.

His area of specialty is comparative philosophy, especially modern Japanese and 20th-century continental philosophy.  

This fall he will be in the core curriculum at BC, a year-long survey course in the intellectual history of the West, and offering an upper division course titled “Ancient Philosophy East and West.”  

“I am very much looking forward to this tremendous new opportunity and appreciate the thorough and comprehensive training and support I received at Penn State when I was a grad student,” David reports. “In particular, Penn State’s pluralistic outlook and sensitivity to the history of philosophy has done much to shape my approach to the subject, and is something that I expect will serve me well at BC.”

David joined the department in the Fall of 2007 and we are very pleased to wish him well as he begins his career at Boston College.