

Email: fergusmf@bc.edu
Philosophy of the Person I
Philosophy of the Person II
Philosophy of Language
Social and Political Philosophy
20th-Century European Philosophy
Ethics
Feminist Philosophy
Social Epistemology
2022 – ‘Wonder at what is as it is’: Arendtian Wonder as the Occasion for Political Responsibility. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 53 (3), 261-275.
2022 – Natality and Tradition: Reading Arendt with Habermas and Gadamer. Arendt Studies. (Online First)
2022 – Political Hermeneutics and Social Interpretation: A Review of Lorenzo C. Simpson’s Hermeneutics as Critique: Science, Politics, Race, and Culture. Research in Phenomenology 52 (1):137-145.
2022 – Renaming the Dead: Translating Joyce into Film. In Thinking Film: Philosophers Go to the Movies, edited by Richard Kearney and M. E. Littlejohn (London: Bloomsbury Press). [Forthcoming]
2021 – Joycean Hermeneutics and the Tyranny of Hidden Prejudice. Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 26 (1):153-164.
2020 – Language, Alienation, and World-Disclosure: A Review of Carolyn Culbertson’s Words Underway: Continental Philosophy of Language. Research in Phenomenology 50 (2):283-289.
2020 – Hermeneutical Justice in Fricker, Dotson, and Arendt. Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (1):21-34.
2022 – “Does Forward-Looking Responsibility Have an Accountability Problem?” (Social Ontology & Collective Intentionality XIII, Vienna, Austria)
2022 – “How Epistemic is Hermeneutical Injustice?” (Canadian Hermeneutic Institute, Calgary) [forthcoming]
2022 – “Wonder, Horror, and Political Emotion in Arendt” (The Arendt Circle, Chicago, IL)
2022 – “Moral Emotions Can Express Social Entanglement” (Kinds of Expression, University of Connecticut, CT)
2021 – “Individual Epistemic Obligations for In-Group Epistemic Wrongdoing” (MANCEPT, Epistemic Responsibilities of Democratic Citizens, Manchester Centre for Political Theory, Manchester, UK)
2021 – “Arendt on Natality: Between Gadamer and Habermas” (The Arendt Circle, Washington, D.C.)
2021 – “Amor Mundi: Arendt on Statelessness and Radical Love” (Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality at MIT, Cambridge, MA)
2021 – “The Global Refugee Crisis, Statelessness, and Epistemic Injustice (38th International Social Philosophy Conference of the NASSP (North American Society for Social Philosophy), Philadelphia PA)
2021 – “Social-Regret: On Responsibility for Others’ Harm” (The American Philosophical Association Central, New Orleans, LA)
2020 – “Joycean Hermeneutics and the Tyranny of Hidden Prejudice” (North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Fort Meyers, FL)
2020 – “Feeling Our Limits: Hesitation as a Catalyst for Third-Order Epistemic Change” (Association for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Social Sciences, Waterloo, ON)
2020 – “Statelessness as Epistemic Injustice in Hannah Arendt” (philoSOPHIA, Nashville, TN)
2019 – “Hermeneutical Justice in Miranda Fricker and Hannah Arendt” (North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Hans-Georg Gadamer Essay Prize Presentation, Eugene, Oregon)
2019 - "Hannah Arendt: Towards Self-Resistant Hermeneutical Justice" (Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Umbria)
2019 – “A Return to ‘The Lass of Aughrim’: Hospitality and Visitation in Joyce’s ‘The Dead’” (North American James Joyce Symposium, Mexico City, Mexico)
2019 – Response to Dennis Schmidt’s “Thinking and Painting: Some Reflections on Plato, Heidegger, and Klee” (Boston Phenomenology Circle Symposium, Boston, MA)
2019 – “Silence, Communication, and Suspicion in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling” (Mystical Theology Network, Boston, MA)
2018 – “Babel and the Command to Translate: Reading Derrida’s ‘Des Tours de Babel’” (Crossing Fronteras: Iterations of Cultural Identity, Boston, MA)
Robert Merrihew Adams – Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow in Philosophy (2022-23)
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Engelhard Pingree Fellow (2021-22)
Runner-Up for the Wolfe Mays Essay Prize by the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology for “‘Wonder at what is as it is’: Arendtian Wonder as the Occasion for Political Responsibility” (2021)
Visiting Scholar Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities (2021-22)
Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute Graduate Assistant (2021)
Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy Fellow (2020-22)
Tisch College Social-Emotional Learning & Civic Engagement Faculty Fellow (2020-21)
Ernest Fortin Memorial Foundation Summer Grant (2021, 2022)
NASPH Hans-Georg Gadamer Essay Prize (2019, 2020)
Donald J. White Award for Teaching Excellence (2019, 2021)
Departmental Distinction (Dissertation Proposal Exam) (2020)
Departmental Distinction (Doctoral Comprehensive Exam) (2020)
Departmental Distinction (First Year Comprehensive Exam) (2018)
Departmental Honors, Columbia University Religion Department (2014)