.JPG "Hans Pedersen")
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Office: 442 Sutton Hall
E-mail: chpedersen@gmail.com
Education
Ph.D., University of South Florida, 2009
M.A., Northern Illinois University, 2003
B.S., Florida Institute of Technology, 2001
Courses
PHIL 120 Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 101 Informal Logic
PHIL 222 Ethics
Professional Interests
Heidegger, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Action
Current Projects
Exploring Heidegger’s interpretation of Kant’s understanding of freedom, Exploring Heidegger’s critique of the use of the concept of causality to explain human action
Select Publications
“Understanding Heidegger’s Analysis of Death Through a Comparison with Husserl’s Conception of the Phenomenological Reduction” in Essays zu Heidegger und Husserl. Internationales Kolloquium für Doktoranden und Postdoktoranden in Verbindung mit der Martin-Heidegger-Gesellschaft e.V., Friederike Rese, editor. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann (In Press).
“Approaching the Debate over Tensed and Tenseless Theories of Time From a Heideggerian Perspective” in Being Amongst Others: Phenomenological Reflections on the Life-world. Eric Chelstrom, editor. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006, pp. 12-23.
Select Presentations
“Being, Seeming and Oedipus,” Florida Philosophical Association Annual Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, November 2007.
“Understanding Heidegger’s Analysis of Death Through a Comparison with Husserl’s Conception of the Phenomenological Reduction,” Graduate Student Workshop at the German Heidegger Society Annual Meeting, Freiburg, Germany, October 2007.
“Understanding Heidegger’s Conception of Movedness and its Implications for his Conception of Action,” Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture Conference, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 2007.
“Understanding Heidegger’s Claim that Phronesis is the Conscience,” Florida Philosophical Association Annual Conference, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, November 2006.
