Adsett, Daniel
Adsett, Daniel
Courses
- Business Ethics
- Introduction to Philosophy
Research Interests
- History of Philosophy (especially Medieval)
- Philosophy of Psychiatry
- Ethics (especially Business Ethics)
- Phenomenology and Existentialism
Personal website
Check out his personal website at: www.danieladsett.com
EDUCATION
- “Faith without Dogmatism: Karl Jaspers’ Critique of Bultmann’s and Barth’s Dogmatic Theologies,” The Heythrop Journal, early view: https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14195.
- “Rational Communication in University Education: A Jaspersian Theory.” In Problematizing the Profession of Teaching from an Existential Perspective. Edited by Aaron Zimmerman, 129-148. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2022.
- 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 Honors 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