Email: carrolih@bc.edu
History and Critique of Metaphysics
Contemporary Metaphysics
19th-20th Century Continental Philosophy
Medieval Philosophy
Philosophy of Language and Dialogue
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Religion
Academically, I am fascinated by the great systems of the classical metaphysical tradition and with the living question concerning this tradition's curtailment and overthrow. My research is oriented around a cluster of questions and figures relating to the once-oft-announced "end of metaphysics." Mainly, I am preoccupied with isolating and describing in detail the fatal problems said to block any attempt at metaphysics' rejuvenation or reconstruction. Outside of my academic studies, I am a novice chef and once-professional mixologist who loves throwing elaborate, conversation-heavy dinner parties. I am an avid practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and have been "on the mat" in one form or another (BJJ, Wrestling, Judo) most of my life. Some of my academia-adjacent hobbies include my special affinity for ancient military history (in particular the great Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca), and my near-compulsory propensity toward organizing and facilitating extracurricular reading groups with friends and colleagues. My greatest pleasure can be found in sustained and genuine personal and theoretical dialogue, an activity I understand to be as valuable as it is both difficult and rare. My academic work is a reflection of my sincere belief in the salutary effects of a carefully-pursued conversation, and of my native enjoyment in the complexities of dialectic and their creative resolution.
“Castrated Ontologizing: A Lacanian Critique of Metaphysical Desire”, Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, [Forthcoming].
“Deleuze Among the Scotists: Difference-In-Itself and Ultima Differentia”, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, 16:3, pp. 331-378.
“Strategies of Transcendence: Schelling and the Pseudo-Dionysius on Divine Separation” UNCC Queen City Philosophy Conference (2019)
“Deleuzian Being and the Legacy of Plato’s Parmenides” North Carolina Philosophical Society (2019)
“Hegel, Heidegger, and the Completion of Metaphysics” UNCC Undergraduate Research Conference (2018)
“Reading Heidegger Reading Hegel Reading Heraclitus” 19th Annual Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Conference (2018)
“Surplus-Value and the Structure of Marx’s Capital: An Austrian Consideration of Karl Marx’s Theory of Value and Exchange” Austrian Economics Research Conference (2018)
“The Genetic Justification of Logic by the Phenomenology of Being” Evangelical Philosophical Society, Southeast Regional Conference (2016)