"I do not insist that my argument is right in all other respects, but I would contend at all costs, both in word and deed, as far as I could, that we will be better people, braver and less lazy, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know..." –Socrates (Plato, Meno 86b)
PRESENTATIONS
Organized for Browsing by General Area
(with the result that many are listed more than once)*
Hermeneutics and Phenomenology
• Learning to Think is Learning to Love (2021)
–Faculty Colloquium,
Catholic Theological Institute, PNG–
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• Heidegger and Aristotle, Madness and Essence (2019)
–SCPT at ACPA–
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• Heidegger's Critique of Novelty (2017)
–SCPT at ACPA–
• Trust; Or, On Being Claimed (2016)
–Philosophy Faculty Colloquium,
University of Minnesota, Duluth–
• Whence Catholic Philosophy? (2015)
–ACPA (Sponsored Satellite Session)–
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• The Time that Consumes and the Time that Eats (2015)
–PACT–
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• Illness as Privation, Healing as Meditation (2015)
–The Heidegger Circle–
• Trust and the Piety of Thought (2015)
–Philosophy Department,
University of Dallas–
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• Mitya's Amulet vs. Foucault's Preferential Option for the Suicidal (2014)
–PACT–
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• Heidegger and Freud on the Ground of Logical Negation (2014)
–CCPC–
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• The Nature of Truth as Heidegger's Self-Made Security (2013)
–Philosophy Faculty Colloquium,
Loyola Marymount University–
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• On Being and Having a Conversation: Heidegger's Dialogues (2013)
–Participants' Conference,
Collegium Phaenomenologicum–
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• Originary Truth as Heidegger's Self-Assurance (2013)
–NY Phenomenology Research Group–
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• Response to Krzysztof Ziarek's "Das Gewalt-lose Walten: Heidegger on Violence, Power, and Gentleness" (2011)
–The Heidegger Circle–
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• On Trust in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (2011)
–"Philosophical Collaborations" (with J. Bloechl)
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale–
• How Does Contemplation Really Work? (2010)
–SAGP–
Psychoanalysis and Mental Illness
• On Basic Trust and Its Betrayal in Psychosis (2019)
–Grand Rounds, Austen Riggs Center,
Stockbridge, MA–
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• The Body of Internal Conflict (2017)
–PACT–
• An Attempt at Synthesizing Psychotic Phenomena (2017)
–C/PIF, Psychology Dept., Patton State Mental Hospital,
San Bernardino, CA–
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• "I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day":
On Language and Betrayal in Psychotic Suffering (2017)
–Philosophy Department,
CSU Stanislaus–
• Illness as Privation, Healing as Meditation (2015)
–The Heidegger Circle–
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• How Can Psychotic Responses Be Understood?
The Role of Trust and Betrayal in Psychosis (2014, twice)
–C/PIF, Patton State Mental Hospital,
San Bernardino, CA;
Grand Rounds, Dept. of Psychiatry,
Loma Linda University, CA–
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• Tales of the Drives in Freud and Aristotle (2012)
–CCPC–
• Response to Richard Boothby's "The Lost Cause of Mourning" (2012)
–"After the Unthinkable" Conference,
Boston College–
• On Trust in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (2011)
–"Philosophical Collaborations" (with J. Bloechl)
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale–
Ancient Greek Philosophy
*Key to Acronyms:
SCPT = Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology
ACPA = American Catholic Philosophical Association
PACT = Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition
CCPC = Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle
SAGP = Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
C/PIF = Clinical/Professional Issues Forum
APS = Ancient Philosophy Society
Talks at Catholic Theological Institute
• The Gift of Standards: Filling Out Course Evaluations Thoughtfully (March 2022)
–Campus-wide Methodology Talk–
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• "Let the Redeemed of the Lord Say So" (Integrating Quotations Effectively) (October 2021)
–Campus-wide Methodology Talk–
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• Learning to Think is Learning to Love (September 2021)
–Faculty Colloquium–
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• My Lab Rats Haven't Arrived Yet! (Research in Philosophy and Theology) (June 2021)
–Campus-wide Methodology Talk, with Rebecca Zimmerman–
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• The Virtues of Academic Honesty (March 2021)
–Campus-wide Methodology Talk–