Like
Summer Institute 2012
Beginning in the Summer 2012 Semester, Douglas College is sponsoring an Institute for Contemporary Continental Philosophy in the form of a third-year Philosophy course. This year, the course runs from May 2-August 3 on the New Westminster Campus.
PHIL 3380: Contemporary Continental Philosophy is open to all post-secondary students with 6 credits in Philosophy and transfers for third-year credit to universities across B.C.
Each summer, the institute is inviting a scholar with a specific background in an area of Contemporary Continental Philosophy to give a public lecture followed by informal discussion. The course will be held once per week for three hours Thursday evenings, and the guest lecture will constitute one of the course classes.
This year, the institute will focus on Jean-Paul Sartre's phenomenological ontology. PHIL 3380 will be a semester-long study of Sartre's major work, Being and Nothingness. The course outline is available online.
Visiting scholar: Dr. Bruce Baugh (Thompson Rivers University)
Dr. Baugh received his PhD from the University of Toronto and is the author of French Hegel: From Surrealism to Postmodernism, as well as several journal articles on Sartre's thought. He is also the Executive Editor of Sartre Studies International and a member of the editorial board of Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy and Deleuze Studies.
The Summer Institute for Contemporary Continental Philosophy will be directed by three Douglas College faculty philosophers whose specialization is in this area.
Dr. John Bruin received his PhD from Guelph/McMaster with a dissertation on Husserl under the direction of the preeminent continental scholars Gary Madison and Jeff Mitscherling. His dissertation was subsequently published by the University of Ottawa Press in 2001 under the title Homo Interrogans. Dr. Bruin has also published articles on Heidegger.
Dr. Mano Daniel received his PhD from the University of Waterloo, completing his dissertation on the work of Hannah Arendt. Dr. Daniel spent three years working with Lester Embree at the Centre for Advanced Research in Phenomenology (CARP) at the Florida Atlantic University, with whom he co-edited the journal Phenomenology and the Cultural Disciplines.
Dr. Robert Nicholls also received his PhD from the University of Waterloo with a dissertation on Heidegger's writings from 1925-29 under the direction of the late Heidegger scholar Zygmunt Adamczewski. He also worked closely with the late José Huertas-Jourda, renowned Husserl scholar and founding member of the Centre for Advanced Research in Phenomenology. Dr. Nicholls has published essays on Nietzsche, Husserl and Heidegger.
For more information please email Dr. Nicholls.
