Philosophy Department Faculty
David W. Johnson
Associate 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
Merleau-Ponty
Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics
Intersubjectivity after Heidegger
Comparative Phenomenology
Ancient Philosophy East and West
Classical and Contemporary Asian Philosophy
Zen and Philosophy
Perspectives on Western Culture
Modernism and the Arts
Office Hours
By appointment
Department
Some Recent Publications
Watsuji on Nature: Japanese Philosophy in the Wake of Heidegger (Northwestern University Press, 2019)
“Word as Image: Gadamer on the Unity of Word and Thing,” Continental Philosophy Review (forthcoming)
“Enneads IV and V: A Puzzle about Perception,” Dionysius, Vol. 38 (forthcoming)
“Naturaleza, cultura y mundo de la vida: algunas consideraciones ontológicas,” Theoría Revista del Colegio de Filosofía, No. 38, 2020
“The Limits of Language: Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Task of Comparative Philosophy,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2020
“The Anonymous Subject of Life: Some Philosophical, Psychological, and Religious Considerations,” Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 49, No. 3, 2019
“Self in Nature, Nature in the Lifeworld: A Reinterpretation of Watsuji’s Concept of Fūdo,” Philosophy East and West, 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
“Watsuji’s Topology of the Self,” Asian Philosophy, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2016
“The Experience of Truth: Gadamer on the Belonging Together of Self, World, and Language,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2015
“Perception, Expression, and the Continuity of Being: Some Intersections Between Nishida and Gadamer,” Asian Philosophy, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2014