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.