Faculty

Sean D. Kirkland, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook

Sean was educated at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and also in Germany at the Bergische Universität, Wuppertal.  His primary interest is in ancient philosophy, but he also does work in contemporary philosophy, specifically phenomenology.  He is currently busy with two book manuscripts. Ontology and Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Early Dialogues, a revised version of his dissertation, is a phenomenological interpretation of Socratic philosophical method.  The other manuscript, now at an early stage, is a study of temporality or the ontological structure of the present moment as it appears in Aristotle’s Physics, Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric, and Poetics.  His work has been published in various collections, festschrift, and journals including Ancient Philosophy, Epoche,  Research in Phenomenology, The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, and the Bochumer philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter.

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