Philosophy Department Faculty

David W. Johnson

Associate Professor

Director of Asian Studies

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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

Asian Philosophy

Zen and Philosophy

Perspectives on Western Culture

Modernism and the Arts  

Office Hours

By appointment

Personal Website

Department

Philosophy

Biography

Professor Johnson joined the faculty in the fall of 2013. He has been a visiting researcher at Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany), the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture (Nagoya, Japan), the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Kyoto, Japan), and Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain). His research draws on primary sources in French, German, and Japanese to explore the shared ground to be found between phenomenology, hermeneutics, and Japanese philosophy as it develops in the aftermath of twentieth-century continental philosophy.  For more about his background and research interests, and for his most recent CV, please visit his website.

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