​My writings fall broadly within the traditions of philosophical hermeneutics, phenomenology, and pragmatism, and major influences on my work to date include Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, Gabriel Marcel, Martin Heidegger, John Dewey, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Augustine. Current projects include a book tentatively titled The Void: An Existential-Political Analysis.

Whatever free time I have is largely spent with my wife, Gwyneth, and our twelve-year-old daughter, Evangeline, or at the gym. I am an eleventh-generation Canadian and a practicing Roman Catholic.

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Professor

Department of Philosophy

Queen's University

Kingston, Ontario, Canada