Dr. Sean J. McGrath Associate Professor, Philosophy Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John s, NL A1C 5S7

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1 Dr. Sean J. McGrath Associate Professor, Philosophy Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John s, NL A1C 5S7 Birthplace: St. John s, Newfoundland Date of birth: 12 December 1966 Languages: English, German, French. Areas of specialization: Metaphysics, Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis DEGREES, EDUCATION, TRAINING : Doctoral candidate, Theologische Fakultaet, University of Freiburg : Psychoanalytical training, CG Jung Institute, Zurich. 2002: Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Toronto. Thesis title: God and the Being that We Are: Heidegger s Readings of Scholasticism. Thesis supervisor: Professor Graeme Nicholson. 1999: M.A., Theology, University of St. Michael s College. Thesis title: Schleiermacher, Barth, and the Anthropological Foundations of Modern Theology. Thesis supervisor: Professor Michael Vertin. 1996: M.A., Philosophy, University of Toronto. MA without thesis. 1989: B.A., English, University of Ottawa. 1985: High School Diploma, Hillcrest Highschool, Ottawa, Canada. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS : Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Memorial University of Newfoundland : Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Memorial University of Newfoundland : Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Mount Allison University, New Brunswick : Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Mount Saint Mary s College, Emmitsburg, MD : Sessional Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto : Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto. OTHER SCHOLARLY WORK 2013: Reviewer for Northwestern University Press. 2013: Organizer, with Prof. Uwe Voigt and Dr. Peter Gratton, of block seminar for graduate students at the University of Augsburg, What is Philosophy, 8-9 November, : Instructor in team taught block seminar for graduate students at the University of Freiburg on Schelling s Positive Philosophy. 2013: Co-organizer, second annual meeting of the North American Schelling Society, University of Western Ontario, 30 August to 1 September.

2 2012--: Member-at-large, Executive Committee, Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy : Canadian Chair, North American Schelling Society. 2012: Co-organizer, first annual meeting of the North American Schelling Society (30 August -1 September 2012), Seattle University. 2012: Organizer, with Prof. Uwe Voigt, of block seminar for graduate students at the University of Augsburg, Environmental Philosophy, planned for 2-5 November, : Organizer, panel at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Continental Philosophy, The Theologico-Political Schelling, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 6 October, : Co-founder, North American Schelling Society. 2011: Referee, Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy. 2011: Referee, International Association for Environmental Philosophy. 2009: Co-organizer, satellite session of the International Institute for Hermeneutics, Schelling on Life, Health and Freedom, at the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, 29 October : Referee, Canadian Philosophical Association : Editor, Analecta Hermeneutica, the online journal of the International Institute for Hermeneutics. 2006: Co-organizer, satellite session of the International Institute for Hermeneutics, The Religious Heidegger, at the annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, 27 October : Outside examiner for Mr. Angus Brock, PhD Dissertation in the Department of Studies in Religion, University of Sydney, Australia. Title of Dissertation: A Phenomenology of Religion? 2006: Organizer of International Workshop in the Philosophy of Religion at Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada, August : Co-organizer, satellite session of the International Institute for Hermeneutics, Van Balthasar and Philosophy, at the annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 29 October : Co-organizer, satellite session of the International Institute for Hermeneutics, Fusing Analytic and Continental Philosophy: Interpretations of Truth, at the Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, 29 May : Co-organizer, satellite session of the International Institute for Hermeneutics, Hermeneutic Readings of Thomas Aquinas, at the annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Miami, Florida, 5 November : Organizer, panel, The Phenomenology of Religion of the Young Heidegger, annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Memphis, Tennessee, 30 October : Editorial Assistant, International Institute for Hermeneutics, Toronto, Canada. 2

3 RESEARCH GRANTS AND ACADEMIC AWARDS (in Canadian dollars): 2013: Faculty of Arts 4A SSHRC Research Grant, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Title of Project: The Death of Nature ($5,000). 2012: President s Award for Outstanding Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland ($5,000). 2012: SSHRC Travel Grant, Memorial University of Newfoundland. For international representation at the first annual meeting of the North American Schelling Society, Seattle, 30 August-1 September, 2012 ($2,500). 2012: Dean of Arts Award for Distinguished Scholarship, Memorial University of Newfoundland (non-monetary). 2011: Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (second renewal) for research in Germany, February 2011-July University of Freiburg, Germany. Title of Project: The Other History of the Unconscious ($16,800). Supervisor: Professor Dr. Markus Enders (Freiburg). 2010: Faculty of Arts 4A SSHRC Research Grant, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Title of Project: The Other History of the Unconscious ($5,000). 2010: SSHRC Travel Grant, Memorial University of Newfoundland. To present: The Dissociated Self. At the Acadamie du Midi, Alet-les-Bains, France ($3,000). 2009: Faculty of Arts 4A SSHRC Research Grant, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Title of Project: The Other History of the Unconscious ($5,000). 2008: Instructional Development Grant, Memorial University, for construction of the online course, Philosophy and Western Spiritualityˮ ($5,000). 2008: SSCHR/Vice-President s Research Grant, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Title of Project: The Other History of the Unconscious: Schelling and Hermetic Psychology ($5,800). 2008: SSHRC Travel Grant, Memorial University of Newfoundland. To present: Heidegger. A (Very) Critical Introduction. At the Grandeur of Reason. Conference of the Centre for Theology and Philosophy, Rome ($3,000). 2008/2009: Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for research in Germany, December 2007-August 2008; April 2009-August University of Freiburg, Germany/University of Bonn, Faculty of Theology. Title of Project: Hegel, Jung, and the Legacy of European Alchemy ($50,000). Supervisors: Professor Dr. Markus Enders (Freiburg); Professor Dr. Michael Schultz (Bonn). 2007: Memorial University of Newfoundland Start-Up Grant ($10,000). 2006: Mount Allison Purdy Crawford Teaching Center Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant for Mount Allison Philosophy and Film Center ($2,400). 2006: Mount Allison Internal Research Grant for Student Assistance in Conference Planning ($1,640). 2006: J. E. A. Crake Teaching Award ($2,000). 2006: Mount Allison Bell Research Grant for Conference Travel ($2,500). 2005: Mount Allison Purdy Crawford Teaching Center Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant for Mount Allison Philosophy and Film Center ($2,100). 2005: J. E. A. Crake Grant for Online Journal in Hermeneutics ($1,400). 3

4 2005: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Research Visit for Former DAAD Grantees, University of Bonn, Faculty of Theology. Title of project: Contemporary Trends in the Phenomenology of Religion ($3,000). 2005: Mount Allison Internal Research Grant for Research in Germany. Title of project: Contemporary Trends in the Phenomenology of Religion ($3,250). 2004: Mount Allison Bell Research Fellowship. Title of project: Contemporary Trends in the Phenomenology of Religion ($12,000). 2002: Dissertation Essay Competition, Philosophy Education Society, for Heidegger and Duns Scotus on Truth and Language : Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Research Scholarship, University of Freiburg, Germany. Title of Research Project: The Early Heidegger s Philosophy of Religion ($12,000) : Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Doctoral Fellowship. Title of Research Project: The Early Heidegger s Philosophy of Religion ($17,500) : DAAD Research Scholarship, University of Freiburg, Germany. Title of Research Project: The Early Heidegger s Philosophy of Religion ($20,000) : SSHRCC Doctoral Fellowship. Title of Research Project: The Early Heidegger s Philosophy of Religion ($17,500) : University of Toronto Joint Initiative for German and European Studies (JIGES) Research Award, University of Freiburg, Germany. Title of Research Project: The Early Heidegger s Philosophy of Religion ($6,000) : SSHRCC Doctoral Fellowship. Title of Research Project: The Early Heidegger s Philosophy of Religion ($17,500) : University of Toronto Open Fellowship ($3,500) : Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) ($12,000). Edited Multi-Authored Books and Journal Issues: : The Many Faces of F.W.J. Schelling (forthcoming, in preparation, with Jason Wirth) : Continental Philosophy of Religion. Analecta Hermeneutica vol. 4 (co-edited with M. Rebidoux) : Transcendence and Immanence. Analecta Hermeneutica vol : With Andrzej Wiercinski, A Companion to Heidegger s Phenomenology of Religious Life (Amsterdam: Rodopi) : Questioning the Absolute. Analecta Hermeneutica vol : Analecta Hermeneutica vol Co-Authored Books: In preparation, with Andrzej Wiercinski: The Madness of God: The Psychodynamics of German Idealism (Berlin: Lit Verlag, under contract for 2014). 4

5 Single-Authored Books: In preparation: The Ecstasy of Reason: Schelling s Philosophy of Revelation In preparation: The Lost Road: A Primer in Western Spirituality : The Dark Ground of Spirit: Schelling and the Unconscious (London: Routledge) : Heidegger. A Very Critical Introduction (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans) : The Early Heidegger and Medieval Philosophy: Phenomenology for the Godforsaken (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press). Reprinted Chapters in books: Forthcoming: German Idealism, in The Meillassoux Dictionary, ed. Paul Ennis and Peter Gratton (Edinburgh University Press). 1. In press: The Question Concerning Nature, in Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics, ed. Brian Treanor and Forrest Clingerman (Fordham University Press, 2013). 2. In press: The Illustrations of Michael Andreas in the 1682 Amsterdam Edition of Jacob Böhme s Collected Works, in Similitudes of the Sublime: Esotericism and Magic in Images, ed. Egil Asprem and Joyce Pijnenburg (Seattle, W.A.: Ouroboros, 2013). 3. In press: Heidegger s Readings of Augustine, in The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, ed. Karla Pollmann (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) : Gadamer and the Hermeneutical Problem of Biblical Revelation, in Gadamer s Hermeneutics and the Art of Conversation, ed. Andrzej Wiercinski (Berlin: Lit, 2011), : Formal Indication, Irony, and the Risk of Saying Nothing, in A Companion to Heidegger s Phenomenology of Religious Life, ed. S.J. McGrath and Andrzej Wiercinski (Amsterdam: Rodopi), : Hermeneutics and the Unconscious: The Mercurial Play of Interpretation in Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, and Alchemy, in The Task of Interpretation: Hermeneutics, Psychoanalysis, and Literary Studies, ed. Dariusz Skórczewski, Andrzej Wiercinski, and Edward Fiawa (Lublin: Catholic University of Lublin), : Jakob Böhmes Begriff des Bösen, in Unheilvolles Erbe? Zum Verständnis der Erbsündenlehre, ed. Helmut Hoping and Michael Schultz, Quaestiones Disputatae, ed. Peter Hünermann and Thomas Södung, vol. 231 (Freiburg: Herder), : Heidegger s Approach to Aquinas: Opposition, Destruktion, and Unbelief, in Belief and Metaphysics, ed. Conor Cunningham (Norwich: SCM Press), : The Excessive Truth of the Imaginal and the Need for Indirect Communication in Methodical Philosophy, in Rescuing Insight, ed. David and John Liptay (University of Toronto), : The Early Heidegger s Critique of Husserl, in Between Description and Interpretation. The Hermeneutic Turn in Phenomenology, ed. Andrzej Wiercinski (Toronto: The Hermeneutic Press),

6 Papers in refereed journals: Forthcoming: The Psychology of Productive Dissociation, or What Would a Schellingian Therapy Look Like? in Comparative and Continental Philosophy 4, n. 3 (2014). 11. Schelling and Jung, International Journal of Jung Studies 6, n. 1 (2014) : The Logic of Indirection in Aquinas and Heidegger, in Heythrop Journal 54: , : Is Schelling s Nature-Philosophy Freudian? in Analecta Hermeneutica : Sexuation in Jung and Lacan, International Journal of Jung Studies 2, n. 1: : Schelling on the Unconscious, Research in Phenomenology 40: : Boehme, Schelling, Hegel, and the Hermetic Theology of Evil, Philosophy and Theology 18, n. 2 (issue back-dated to 2006): : The Interpretive Structure of Truth in Heidegger, Analecta Hermeneutica 1: : Heidegger and Medieval German Mysticism, in Heinrich Seuse Jahrbuch 1: : Alternative Confessions, Conflicting Faiths: A Review of The Influence of Augustine on Heidegger, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 82, no. 1: : The Facticity of Being Godforsaken: The Young Heidegger s Accommodation of Luther s Theology of the Cross, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 79, No. 2: : Back to the Religious Roots of Being and Time: Questioning Heidegger s Formal Eschatology, Studies in the Philosophy of Religion/Studia z filozofii Boga, religii i czlowieka 3: : Die scotistische Phänomenologie des jungen Heideggers, in Heidegger und die Anfänge Seines Denkens, ed. Hans-Helmuth Gander, Holger Zaborowski, and Alfred Denker, Heidegger-Jahrbuch 1: : Heidegger and Duns Scotus on Truth and Language, Review of Metaphysics 57: : Towards a Technology that Allows the Beautiful to Occur, Animus 8: 11-20, : The Young Heidegger s Problematic Reading of Augustine s Ontological Restlessness, in Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 4, no. 1, Papers in refereed conference proceedings: 26. Madness as a Philosophical Problem in Hegel, in Merely a Madness? ed. Daniela Fargions and Jonathan Sunley (Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2012), : The Dissociated Self, in Selfhood East and West: De-Constructions of Identity. Selected Papers from the 18th Symposium of the Académie du Midi: Identity East and West, Alet-les-Bains, France, 2010, ed. Jason Dockstader, Hans-Georg Möller and Günter Wohlfart (Nordhausen: Traugott Bautz), : Das verborgene theologishe Anliegen von Sein und Zeit: Die Luther Lektüre des 6

7 jungen Heidegger, in Markus Enders and Holger Zaborowski, eds., Phänomenologie der Religion. Zugänge und Grundfragen (Freiburg: Karl Alber), : The Forgetting of Haecceitas: Heidegger s Habilitationsschrift, in Andrzej Wiercinski, ed., Between the Human and The Divine: Philosophical and Theological Hermeneutics (Toronto: The Hermeneutic Press), Book Reviews Forthcoming: Tyler Tritten, Beyond Presence: The Late F.W.J. Schelling s Criticism of Metaphysics (De Gruyter, 2012). In Comparative Continental Philosophy. 1. Bruce Matthews, Schelling s Organic Form of Philosophy. Life as the Schema of Freedom (SUNY, 2011). In Analecta Hermeneutica : Robert Sokolowski, Phenomenology of the Human Person (Cambridge, 2008). In The Thomist.75 (2011) : Peter S. Dillard. Heidegger and Philosophical Atheology. A Neo-Scholastic Critique (New York: Continuum, 2008). In the Notre Dame Review of Books, ( : Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark A. Wrathall, eds. A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism (Malden, MA: Blackwell 2006). In Philosophy in Review 28 (6): : Taylor Carmen, Heidegger s Analytic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). In The Review of Metaphysics 59 (2): : Andrzej Wiercinski. Inspired Metaphysics? Gustav Siewerth s Hermeneutic Reading of the Onto-Theological Tradition (Toronto: The Hermeneutic Press, 2003). In The Thomist 69 (2): : Bruce Foltz s Inhabiting the Earth: Heidegger and Environmental Philosophy, in Call to Earth: Journal of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy 1 (March): PAPERS READ : The Psychology of Productive Dissociation or, What Would a Schellingian Therapy Look Like? at the second annual meeting of the North American Schelling Society, the University of Western Ontario, 31 August : Post-Ecclesial Christianity: Schelling s Philosophy of Revelation, at the inaugural meeting of the North American Schelling Society, Seattle University, 1 September : The Role of the Negative in the Late Schelling, at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 6 October : Melancholy, Death, and the Longing for Being in Schelling s Clara, at the Second International Meeting of Hermeneutics, Psychoanalysis, and Literary Studies, Catholic University of Lublin, 23 May : The Marginalization of Imagination and the Forgetting of Nature in Structuralism and Hermeneutics, at the Environmental Hermeneutics Conference, 25 January. 7

8 : Michel Henry and the Hiddenness of Life, at the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Baltimore, Friday, 5 November : Nature s Coming Back and its Nasty: The Second-Wave of Eco-Anxiety, at the International Association of Environmental Philosophy, Montreal, 7 November : Hegel s Theory of Madness, at Madness Probing the Boundaries conference, Oriel College, Oxford, Thursday 14 September : The Dissociated Self, at the Académie-du-Midi, Alet-les-Bains, France, 27 May : Schelling on Responsibility and the Unconscious, at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Arlington, Virginia, 29 October : Lacan s Critique of Contrasexuality, at the Second International Conference of the International Association of Jungian Studies, Cardiff University, 12 July : Paper: The Illustrations of Michael Andreas in the 1682 Amsterdam Edition of Jacob Böhme s Collected Works, at the American Academy of Religion, Chicago, 9 November : Heidegger. A Very Critical Introduction, panel discussion of my book of the same title at the Grandeur of Reason. Conference of the Centre of Philosophy and Theology, Rome, 1 September : Schelling and Jung, at the Third Academic Conference of the International Association of Analytical Psychology and International Association of Jungian Studies, ETH Zurich, 4 July : Hermeneutics and the Unconscious: The Mercurial Play of Interpretation in Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis, at the Hermeneutics, Psychoanalysis, and Literary Studies conference, Catholic University of Lublin, 2 April : Psychoanalysis as a Human Science, at the Hermeneutics and the Humanities conference, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 27 March : Boehme, Schelling and the Hermetic Theology of Evil, at the annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Marquette University, 10 November : Heidegger from 1919 to 1927: Groundwork Towards a Phenomenology for the Godforsaken, at the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, 27 October : Aquinas and Scotus on Aristotle s Theory of Knowledge, at the Aristotle De Anima conference, Bishops University, Quebec, 26 September : Readings in the Shadow Canon: Paracelsus and Boehme on the Problem of Evil, at the Faculty Research Day, Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, 31 August : The Objection from Evil, at the International Philosophy of Religion Workshop, Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, 19 August : Breaking in to the Hermeneutic Circle: Gadamer and the Possibility of Absolute Alterity, at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Albert- Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, 5 June : Formal Indication, Metaphor, and the Way Poetry Means, at the Heidegger- Forschungsgruppe, Meßkirch, Germany, 25 May : The Esoteric Context of Hegel s Ontology of Contradiction, at the Ontario Hegel Society, McGill University, 1 April. 8

9 : Jean-Luc Marion s Contribution to von Balthasar s Theological Aesthetics, at the American Catholic Philosophical Association, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 29 October : The Interpretive Structure of Truth in Heidegger, at the Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, 29 May : Derrida on the Impossibility of the Gift, at the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, 30 May : The Young Heidegger s Approach to Aquinas: Sorting out the Confusion of Opposed Horizons, at the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Miami, Florida, 5 November : Formalizing (or Formal Indicating?) the Apocalypse: The Young Heidegger s Reading of St. Paul, at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Memphis, Tennessee, 30 October : Phenomenology of Religions: Methodological Cues from the Young Heidegger, at the Atlantic Regional Philosophical Association, Dalhousie University, Halifax, 16 October : The Act of Insight and the Excessive Meaning of the Symbol, at the second International Lonergan Workshop, Regis College, Toronto, 5 August : Phenomenology of Religion as Hermeneutic Source of Scientific Data, at the International Christian Studies Association, Sixth World Congress, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 30 July : The Excessive Truth of the Imaginal, at the West Coast Methods Institute, Loyola Marymount College, CA, 16 April : Towards a Phenomenology of Mysticism: The Young Heidegger s Explorations of the Other Side of the Middle Ages, at the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Washington, D.C., 28 December : Formal Indication as Hermeneutical Method in the Young Heidegger, at the Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought, Dalhousie University, Halifax, 30 June : Das verborgene theologische Anliegen von Sein und Zeit, at the Internationale religionsphilosophische Konferenz anläässlich des 20. Todestages Bernhard Weltes, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, 14 May : From Reflective to Hermeneutical Phenomenology: The Early Heidegger s Critique of Husserl, at the American Philosophical Association, Cleveland, Ohio, 26 April : The Forgetting of Haecceitas: Heidegger s Habilitationsschrift, at the first meeting of the International Institute for Hermeneutics, at St. Bonaventure University, NY, 6 May : Technology, Truth, and the Imagination: Toward an Ethos of the Beautiful, at the De Paul Graduate Philosophy Conference, De Paul University, Chicago, 15 May : Schleiermacher and Lonergan on the Foundations of Theology, at the Lonergan Research Institute, Regis College, Toronto, 8 January. 9

10 Invited lectures: : Schelling s Critique of Hegel and Why it Still Matters. Keynote address at The Absolute and the World in Late German Idealism conference, McGill University, 26 August : Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. Public Lecture hosted by the students of the CG Jung Institute Zurich and the International School for Analytical Psychology, Kuesnacht, Switzerland, February : Dark Ecology and the Question Concerning Nature. Public Lecture at the University of Augsburg, co -organized by the Institute of Philosophy, the Center of North American Studies and the Wissenschaftszentrum Umwelt, 5 November : Die Christologie des spaeten Schellings. Seminar presentation to the Faculty of Theology, University of Freiburg, 7 July : The Schellingian Unconscious. Keynote address at Erasmus Mundus Graduate Student Conference, University of Wuppertal, Germany, 14 May : The Second Wave of Eco-Anxiety: Nature s Coming Back and It is Nasty. St. John s Public Philosophy Lectures, The Ship Inn, St. John s, Newfoundland, 30 November : Heidegger and National Socialism. Invited lecture to the History Club, Holyrood, NL, Saturday 30 October : Madness as a Philosophical Problem in Hegel. Invited lecture to the Departments of Philosophy and German, Dalhousie University, Halifax, in support of nomination for the Canada Research Chair in European Studies, Monday 5 April : The Genealogy of the Unconscious. Public lecture at Dalhousie University, Halifax, in support of nomination for the Canada Research Chair in European Studies, Tuesday 6 April : The Second Wave of Eco-Anxiety: Nature s Coming Back and It is Nasty. Public lecture at Grenfell College, Corner Brook, NL, 12 March : The Marginalization of the Image in C20th. Philosophy. Public lecture given at Memorial University of Newfoundland Philosophy Colloquium, 19 January : Introduction to Spiritual Alchemy. Three-day workshop held at the Jung Centre for Spiritual Sciences in Waterbury, Vermont, September : Bemerkungen über Oetinger, Boehme, und Baader, in Bezug auf Schellings Freiheitschrift. Seminar presentation to the Faculty of Theology, University of Freiburg, 18 July : Einführung in die Theosophie Jacob Böhmes in Bezug auf den 1682 Illustrationen Michael Andreas. Seminar presentation to the Faculty of Theology, University of Freiburg, 30 April : The Limits of Theory and the Logic of Indirection in Aquinas and Heidegger. Public lecture given at the Dominican University College, Ottawa, 30 March : Schelling on Responsibility to the Unconscious. Public lecture given at Memorial University of Newfoundland Philosophy Colloquium, 10 February : Does Anybody Still Have a Soul? An Inquiry into Life, Death, and Everything in Between. St. John s Public Philosophy Lectures, The Ship Inn, St. John s, 10

11 Newfoundland, 25 November : The Question of the Self. Lecture to the faculty and students at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art / Design / Technology, Ireland, 27 May : Toward a Technology that Allows the Beautiful to Occur. Public lecture given at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art / Design / Technology, Ireland, 26 May : Jakob Böhme and the Theological Sources of Psychotherapy. Seminar presentation to the Faculty of Theology, University of Bonn, 5 May : The Early Heidegger and the End of the World. Public lecture given at Memorial University of Newfoundland Philosophy Colloquium, 14 February : The Limits of Theory in Aquinas s Negative Theology and the Early Heidegger. Public lecture given at the Department of Philosophy, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 11 December : Die theologischsen Wurzeln der frühen Ontologie Martin Heideggers. Lecture to graduate students of the Faculty of Theology, University of Bonn, 28 June : Mapping the Limits of Reason in the Middle Ages. Public lecture given at the Department of Philosophy, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 6 March : Heidegger on Being, Time, and St. Paul s First Letter to the Thessalonians. Lecture given to the monks at Holy Hill Hermitage, Skreen, Co. Sligo, Ireland, 20 June. Teaching At Memorial University, I teach regularly Philosophy of Human Nature, Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Metaphysics, Philosophy and Western Spirituality, Contemporary Issues, Hermeneutics and Deconstruction, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Phenomenology, and senior seminars / graduate courses in my areas of specialization. I have team taught three senior seminars at the University of Freiburg: Schelling s Freedom Essay (2010); the Discovery of the Unconscious (2011); and the Philosophy of the Late Schelling (2012). I have also led a senior seminar in environmental philosophy at the University of Augsburg (November 2012). I am a regular lecture in Memorial University s Masters of Philosophy in the Humanities program. Graduate Supervision Joseph Carew (2009) Max Schaeffer (2010) Chris Woodward (2011) Jonathan Marshall (2013) Lawrence Donegan (2013) Michael Austin (2013) Emily-Jean Gallant (2013) Daniel Adsett (2013) September