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.