Philosophy Department Faculty
David W. Johnson
Assistant Professor
David W. Johnson
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall North Room 349
Telephone: 617-552-3709
Email: david.johnson.8@bc.edu
Education
- Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
- B.A., Emory University
Courses
Asian Philosophy
Philosophical Hermeneutics
Comparative Philosophy
Perspectives on Western Culture
Research Interests
Contemporary Japanese Philosophy, especially the Kyoto School
Hermeneutics and Phenomenology, especially Gadamer and Merleau-Ponty
Comparative Philosophy
Expertise
- Japan
- Philosophy
Department
Recent Publications
· “Self in Nature, Nature in the Lifeworld: A Reinterpretation of Watsuji’s Concept of Fūdo,” Philosophy East and West, forthcoming in Vol. 68, No. 4, 2018
· “Acting-Intuition and the Achievement of Perception: Merleau-Ponty with Nishida,” Philosophy East and West, Vol. 67, No. 3, 2017, 693-709.
· “Fūdo as the Disclosure of Nature: Re-Reading Watsuji with Heidegger,” forthcoming in Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 9, ed. Takeshi Morisato (Nagoya: Nanzan Institute Press), 2016.
· “Watsuji’s Topology of the Self,” Asian Philosophy, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2016, 216-240.
· “The Experience of Truth: Gadamer on the Belonging Together of Self, World, and Language,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2015, 373-96
· “Perception, Expression, and the Continuity of Being: Some Intersections Between Nishida and Gadamer,” Asian Philosophy, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2014, 48-66
· “Merleau-Ponty and the Other World of Painting: A Response,” Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 40, No. 1, 2009, 89-97