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Timothy J. Stapleton, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor
Stapleton

Education

  • B.S. – MacMurray College (1973)
  • M.A. – The Pennsylvania State University (1975)
  • Ph.D. – The Pennsylvania State University (1978)

Courses Taught

  • PL 201 - Foundations of Philosophy
  • PL 202 - Philosophical Perspectives: The Project of Modernity
  • PL 317 - Ethics: The Experience of Evil
  • PL 320 - Logic
  • PL 357 - Philosophy and Literature
  • PL 382 - Existentialism
  • PL 384 - Phenomenology
  • PL 389 - Nietzsche

Publications

  • "The Logic of Husserl’s Transcendental Reduction," Man and World, Vol. 15, Number 4 (Winter, 1982).
  • Husserl and Heidegger: The Question of a Phenomenological Beginning. Albany: The State University of New York Press, 1983.
  • "Philosophy and Finitude: Husserl, Derrida and the End of Philosophy," Philosophy Today, Volume 30, Number 4, (Spring, 1986): 3 – 15.
  • The Question of Hermeneutics (editor). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.

Areas of Specialization

  • Phenomenology
  • Existentialism
  • History of Philosophy