Many of the publications listed below are available at my academia.edu page. If you have difficulty accessing any of these publications, please contact me directly.
Journal Articles
2025. “From encountering foreign languages to the language of phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty and ‘The Problem of Speech’.” Continental Philosophy Review. Available online (open access).
2025. “Roots of Sentience: An Alternative Phenomenological Approach to Empathy with Plants.” Environmental Philosophy. Available online.
2024. “‘Humanity Is Another Corporeity’: The Evolution of Human Bodily Appearance and Sociality.” Synthese. Available online (open access).
2024. “Between Social Cognition and Material Engagement: The Cooperative Body Hypothesis.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. Available online (open access).
2023. “Evolution and Esthesiology: Seeing the Eye through Merleau-Ponty’s Nature and Logos Lectures.” Humana.Mente 16(43): 297-322. Available online.
2022. “In Search of Lost Speech: From Language to Nature in Merleau-Ponty’s Collège de France Courses.” Humana.Mente 15(41): 149-176. Available online.
2021. “Fashioning the Word-Tool: The Instrumental Character of the Word in Yogic Mantra Meditation and Phenomenology.” Philosophy East and West 71(2): 348-368. Available online.
2021. “Sense-Making from the Top Down: Phenomenology and Naturalism in Autopoietic and Radical Enactivism.” Synthese 198: 2323-2343. Available online.
2020. “The Surplus of Signification: Merleau-Ponty and Enactivism on the Continuity of Life, Mind, and Culture.” Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 28(1): 27-52. Available online.
2020. “Horizons of the Word: Words and Tools in Perception and Action.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 19: 905-932. Available online.
2020. “Pointing the Way to Social Cognition: A Phenomenological Approach to Embodiment, Imitation, Pointing, and Social Cognition in the First Year.” Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 40(3): 135-154. Available online.
2020. “Phenomenological Reduction in Merleau-Ponty’s The Structure of Behavior: An Alternative Approach to the Naturalization of Phenomenology.” European Journal of Philosophy 28(1): 15-32. Available online. (Named EJP‘s 2019 Prize Essay in Transcendental Philosophy)
2018. “Phenomenology and Ontology of Expression and Language: Merleau-Ponty on Speaking and Spoken Speech.” Human Studies 41(3): 415-435. Available online.
Contributions to Edited Volumes
In Preparation (invited). “Empathy with Plants.” Invited contribution for Routledge Handbook of Ecophenomenology.
In Preparation (invited). “Enactivism and Phenomenology.” Invited contribution for Encyclopedia of Phenomenology. New edition. Edited by Ted Toadvine and Nicolas de Warren.
2025. “Pointing and Embodiment in Infancy: Reflections from Phenomenology, Psychology, and Anthropology.” In Deixis – Zeigen – Pointing. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Edited by Erik Norman Dzwiza-Ohlsen. WBG Academic. Publisher’s page.
2024. “We All Have Plague: Human Nature and Decency in Camus’ The Plague.” In Narrative and Ethical Understanding. Edited by Garry Hagberg. Palgrave Macmillan. Available online.
2023. “Phenomenological Insights from Postural Yoga Practice.” In Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology and Mindfulness. Edited by Susi Ferrarello and Christos Hadjioannou. Routledge. Publisher’s page.
2018. “Speaking and Spoken Speech.” In Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism. Edited by Ariane Mildenberg. Bloomsbury. Publisher’s page.
Conference Proceedings
2022. “‘In Infancy, the Child Is Attracted to Speech’: Merleau-Ponty on the Social-Affective Origins of Language.” Actas, Actas de las Decimoquintas Jornadas Peruanas de fenomenología y hermenêutica, 15. Available online.
2016. “Platonic and Aristotelian Legacies in the Philosophy of Language: A Case for the Priority of the Cratylus.” Maritain Studies 32: 72-82.
Editorial Contributions
2024. Introduction to “Trần Đức Thảo and Alexandre Kojève: Correspondence.” Synkrētic: The Journal of Indo-Pacific Philosophy 5: 9-18. Available online.
2021. Introduction to Tran Duc Thao, “On Indochina.” Études Phénoménologiques 5: 1-7. Available online.
Book Reviews
2021. Review of Ryan Hickerson, Feelings of Believing: Psychology, History, Phenomenology. Journal of the History of Philosophy 59(2): 340-341. Available online.
2017. Review of Lawrence Hatab, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language, Volume I: Dwelling in Speech. Phenomenological Reviews. Available online.
2014. Review of Lee Braver, Groundless Grounds: A Study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 45 (1): 84-89.
Translations
Forthcoming. Scheler, Max. Scheler’s 1912 Göttingen Ethik Seminar. Edited by Jason Bell and Thomas Vongehr. Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH.
2024. “Trần Đức Thảo and Alexandre Kojève: Correspondence.” Synkrētic: The Journal of Indo-Pacific Philosophy 5: 9-18. Available online.
2021. Thao, Tran Duc. “On Indochina.” Études Phénoménologiques 5: 1-7. Available online.
2019. Husserl: German Perspectives. Edited by John Drummond and Otfried Höffe. Fordham University Press. Publisher’s page.
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