Dr. Robert Piercey, Associate Professor of Philosophy

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Dr. Robert Piercey

Associate Professor of Philosophy

B.A. Hons. (Memorial), M.A. (Warwick), Ph.D. (Notre Dame)

Phone: (306) 359-1214

Research Interests

Nineteenth and twentieth century European philosophy; historiography of philosophy; philosophy of history; philosophy of literature.

Representative Publications

The Uses of the Past From Heidegger to Rorty: Doing Philosophy Historically. (Publisher ) Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, April 2009.

The Crisis in Continental Philosophy: History, Truth and the Hegelian Legacy. Forthcoming from Continuum. (Publisher)

“How Paul Ricoeur Changed the World.” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 82:3 (Summer 2008), 463-480.

“What is a Post-Hegelian Kantian? The Case of Paul Ricoeur.” Philosophy Today 51:1 (Spring 2007), 26-38.

Current Scholarly Projects

Much of my research deals with questions at the intersection of philosophy and history: Why do we study the history of philosophy, and how should we do so? Is it possible to advance an original philosophical agenda by studying the philosophers of the past? In what sense, if any, is philosophical truth historical? I’m also very interested in the relations between philosophy and literature, and I’ve just started a research project on the philosophical dimensions of reading. Finally, I’m very interested in philosophical hermeneutics, particularly the work of Paul Ricoeur.