Loyola University Maryland

Faculty & Staff

Timothy J. Stapleton
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Office: HU 050N
410-617-2555
tstapleton@loyola.edu

Education

  • B.S. – MacMurray College (1973)
  • M.A. – The Pennsylvania State University (1975)
  • Ph.D. – The Pennsylvania State University (1978)

Areas of Specialization

  • Phenomenology
  • Existentialism
  • History of Philosophy

Recent Courses Taught

  • PL 201 – Foundations of Philosophy
  • PL 202 – Philosophical Perspectives: The Project of Modernity
  • PL 317 – Ethics: The Experience of Evil
  • PL 320 – Logic
  • PL 357 – Philosophy and Literature
  • PL 382 -- Existentialism
  • PL 384 – Phenomenology
  • PL 389 -- Nietzsche

Selected Publications

  • "The Logic of Husserl’s Transcendental Reduction," Man and World, Vol. 15, Number 4 (Winter, 1982).
  • Husserl and Heidegger: The Question of a Phenomenological Beginning.  Albany: The State University of New York Press, 1983.
  • "Philosophy and Finitude: Husserl, Derrida and the End of Philosophy," Philosophy Today, Volume 30, Number 4, (Spring, 1986): 3 – 15.
  • The Question of Hermeneutics (editor).  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.

Contact Us

  • For more information, or to ask questions, about the philosophy department, please contact Richard P. Boothby at boothby@loyola.edu or 410-617-2890.