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Education

• PhD, McMaster University

Specializations / Research Interests

Continental Philosophy

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My writings fall broadly within the traditions of philosophical hermeneutics, phenomenology, and pragmatism, and major influences on my work over the years have included Nietzsche and Dewey, Gadamer and Ricoeur, Marcel and Jaspers, and more recently Augustine and Dostoyevsky. Current projects include a book tentatively titled The Void: An Existential-Political Analysis.

Whatever free time I have is largely spent with my wife Gwyneth and our daughter Evangeline, or at the gym. I am an eleventh-generation Canadian and a practicing Roman Catholic.

Monographs

• History and Hermeneutics. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
• Introducing Dewey. London: Bloomsbury, 2024.
• Historical Imagination: Hermeneutics and Cultural Narrative. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022.
• Essays: The Philosophy Crush Podcast. Outskirts Press, 2021.
• Philosophical Reflections on Antiquity: Historical Change. Lanham: Lexington, 2020.
• Artistic Creation: A Phenomenological Account. Co-authored with Jeff Mitscherling. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019.
• Teachability and Learnability: Can Thinking Be Taught? New York: Routledge, 2016.
• Death: A Philosophical Inquiry. New York: Routledge, 2014.
• Philosophical Hermeneutics Reinterpreted: Dialogues with Existentialism, Pragmatism, Critical Theory, and Postmodernism. London: Bloomsbury, 2011.
• Education After Dewey. London: Bloomsbury, 2009.
• Why Democracy? Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008.
• Public/Private. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.
• The Ways of Power: Hermeneutics, Ethics, and Social Criticism. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2002.
• Moral Selfhood in the Liberal Tradition: The Politics of Individuality. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.
• Theorizing Praxis: Studies in Hermeneutical Pragmatism. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.
• Is There a Canadian Philosophy? Reflections on the Canadian Identity. Co-authored with Gary B. Madison and Ingrid Harris. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2000.

Edited Books

• Relational Hermeneutics: Essays in Comparative Philosophy. Co-edited with Saulius Geniusas. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
• Hermeneutics and Phenomenology. Co-edited with Saulius Geniusas. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
• Education and Conversation: Exploring Oakeshott’s Legacy. Co-edited with David Bakhurst. London: Bloomsbury, 2016.
• Education, Dialogue and Hermeneutics. London: Bloomsbury, 2010.
• John Dewey and Continental Philosophy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.