Adsett, Daniel

EDUCATION

• Doctor of Philosophy Marquette University, Dissertation Title: The Status of Irrationality: Karl Jaspers’ Response to Davidson and Searle
• Master of Arts Memorial University, Philosophy,  Thesis Title: Equivocal Transcendence: Situating Heidegger’s Ontology within a Medieval Schema
• Bachelor of Arts St. Thomas University, Double Honours in History and Philosophy Thesis Title: Interrupting the Secret: Jacques Derrida’s Deconstruction of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite’s Negative Theology

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• “Milbank and Heidegger on the Possibility of a Secular Analogy of Being,” International Philosophical Quarterly 59, no. 2 (2019): 155-173.

Proceedings

• “Ambiguity and Nihilism: Comments on Nassir Ghaemi’s On Depression” Existenz 11.2 (2016): 13-17.
• “Meaning and Diagnosis: Are Mental Illnesses Genuinely Mental?” Existenz 10.2 (2015): 47-52.

Book Reviews

• Gert-Jan van der Heiden, Ontology after Ontotheology: Plurality, Event, and Contingency in Contemporary Philosophy. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2014. Reviewed for the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, 14 January 2016. Read here
• Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. Reviewed in Analecta Hermeneutica 7 (2015). Read here
• George Pattison, Heidegger on Death: A Critical Theological Essay. Berlington: Ashgate, 2013. Reviewed in Analecta Hermeneutica 5, 2015. Read here
• Scott Campbell, The Early Heidegger’s Philosophy of Life: Facticity, Being, and Language. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. Reviewed in Analecta Hermeneutica 5, 2013. Read here

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Contemporary European Philosophy, especially Phenomenology and Existentialism