DAVID W. JOHNSON CURRICULUM VITÆ

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1 DAVID W. JOHNSON CURRICULUM VITÆ Department of Philosophy Tel: Boston College Fax: N. Stokes, Chestnut Hill, MA, Academic Appointments Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Boston College, 2013 present Visiting Appointments Visiting Research Fellow, The International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan ( ) Visiting Research Fellow, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nagoya, Japan (April-August, 2013) Education Ph.D., Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University (2013) - Dissertation: Language, Truth, and Reason: Gadamer with Nishida Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany visiting doctoral researcher: audited courses in German philosophy; German language study ( ) B.A., Philosophy, Emory University (1997) Yonsei University, Korea exchange student: studies in Confucianism, Daoism, Zen Buddhism, East Asian art history, Contemporary East Asian politics, Korean history, Korean language ( ) Areas of Specialization Contemporary Japanese Philosophy (especially Watsuji and Nishida) Hermeneutics and Phenomenology (especially Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer) Areas of Competence Classical Chinese Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics Publications Book Manuscript (in preparation) The Hermeneutics of Nature: Reading Watsuji Tetsurō Refereed Journal Articles 7. Self in Nature, Nature in the Lifeworld: A Reinterpretation of Watsuji s Concept of Fūdo, Philosophy East and West, forthcoming in Vol. 68, No. 4, Acting-Intuition and the Achievement of Perception: Merleau-Ponty with 1

2 Nishida, Philosophy East and West, forthcoming in Vol. 67, No. 3, Watsuji s Topology of the Self, Asian Philosophy, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2016, The Experience of Truth: Gadamer on the Belonging Together of Self, World, and Language, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2015, Perception, Expression, and the Continuity of Being: Some Intersections Between Nishida and Gadamer, Asian Philosophy, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2014, Merleau-Ponty and the Other World of Painting: A Response, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 40, No. 1, 2009, What Does Academic Skepticism Presuppose? Arcesilaus, Carneades, and the Argument with Stoic Epistemology, Lyceum, Vol. 10, No. 1, Fall 2008, Refereed Book Chapters 1. Fūdo as the Disclosure of Nature: Re-Reading Watsuji with Heidegger, forthcoming in Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 9, ed. Takeshi Morisato (Nagoya: Nanzan Institute Press), Refereed Presentations 2016 Cultivating the Interlacing of Self and World: Nishida and the Phenomenology of Perception, Nishida Philosophy Association Conference, Tokyo, Japan (July 24) Self in Nature, Nature in the Lifeworld: Re-Imagining Nature through Watsuji s Concept of Fūdo, Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii (June 5) Watsuji s Topology of the Self, The 11 th East-West Philosopher s Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii (May 29) Disclosure as the Re-enchantment of Nature: Thinking with and after Watsuji The Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle Conference, Taipei, Taiwan (March 26) 2015 Fūdo as the Disclosure of Nature: Re-Reading Watsuji with Heidegger The European Network of Japanese Philosophy, Barcelona, Spain (December 4) Watsuji on the Place of the Self: Continuity, Transcendence, and Ethical Life, The Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, Reykjavík, Iceland (May 16) 2014 Nature as Unity, Heterogeneity, Productivity: Merleau-Ponty on the Vertical Genesis of Sense, Society for European Philosophy and Forum for European Philosophy, Utrecht, The Netherlands (September 3) 2

3 Comparative Philosophy and the Work of Disclosure: Ricoeur on Metaphor and Translation, 2014 International Conference on Paul Ricoeur, Hermeneutics, and Asia, Taipei, Taiwan (May 30) Belonging to the World: Nishida vs. Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty on Perceptual Truth, The Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, Santa Barbara, CA (March 21) 2013 The Self-Determination of the Whole: Nishida on the Achievement of Perception, Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Singapore (July 10) 2010 The Deadliness and Fragility of Action: An Oakeshottean View of Beauty, Bay Area Continental Philosophy Association, San Francisco, CA (March 31) Invited Presentations Friendship as Reciprocity: Aristotle, Kant, and the Demands of Particularity, Mid- South Philosophy Conference, Memphis, TN (March 6) 2016 Nondualism, Disclosure, and the Re-Enchantment of Nature: Some Aspects of the Philosophical Potential of Watsuji s Concept of Fūdo, Views of Watsuji Tetsurō from around the World, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nagoya, Japan (June 25) The Relational Self: Nature and Sociality in the Philosophy of Watsuji Tetsurō The International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan (May 12) The Disclosure of Nature: Watsuji with Heidegger Institute of Philosophical Research, Seoul National University, Korea (March 28) 2015 The Place of the Self: Watsuji Tetsurō s Relational Ontology, Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy, The City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (October 13) 2014 On Selfhood: With and After Watsuji, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nagoya, Japan (August 1) Gadamer s Hermeneutic Radicality, Hermeneutics East and West Conference, Department of Asian Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (May 17) 2013 Nishida and Gadamer, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nagoya, Japan (July 24) 2012 Practical Reason and Linguistic Disclosure in the Work of Gadamer, Graduate Poster Exhibition, Pennsylvania State University (March 25) 3

4 Invited Responses 2016 Response to Kazashi Nobuo, Zen Thought in Modern Japan New Steps in Japanese Studies Workshop, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan (July 22) 2009 Response to Jerome Veith, Phronesis as Self-Knowledge, Ancient Philosophy Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD (April 25) Awards and Grants Graduate Student Essay First Prize for paper presented to the Joint Meeting of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy and the Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy at the National University of Singapore The Joseph J. Kockelmans Award for Excellence in Philosophy Doctoral Studies, Department of Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University RGSO Dissertation Support Grant, The Graduate School, The Pennsylvania State University (for research at the Ricoeur Archives, Paris, France) Baden-Württemberg Stipend, Department of Philosophy, University of Freiburg, Germany Liberal Arts External Funding Award, College of Liberal Arts, The Pennsylvania State University University Fellow, The Graduate School, The Pennsylvania State University George Gibbons Scholarship, Emory University Teaching Perspectives on Western Culture (undergraduate) Asian Philosophy (undergraduate) Ancient Philosophy East and West (proseminar) Gadamer s Philosophical Hermeneutics (graduate) Merleau-Ponty (graduate) Service To the Department Department Committees Undergraduate Committee (Fall 2016-present) Undergraduate Major Assessments Committee (Spring 2015) Graduate Placement Committee (Fall 2013-Fall 2014) Supervised Theses and Directed Readings - H. Deghani, PhD student, Merleau-Ponty directed reading, spring S. Driscoll, PhD student, Gadamer directed reading, fall J. Hirsch, Senior Honors Thesis (title: Mindfulness Practice, Foul Bodies, and the Philosophical Potential of the Nondual Body in Theravāda Buddhism ) 4

5 fall 2014 spring 2015 To the College of Arts and Sciences and the University Member, Boston College Asian Studies Program Member, Organizing Committee, Association for Asian Studies (New England) Conference to be hosted by Boston College, Jan. 28th-29th, 2017 To the Profession Book Manuscripts Reviewer, Palgrave Macmillan Book Manuscripts Reviewer, SUNY Press Book Series Reviewer, Tetsugaku Companions to Japanese Philosophy (Springer) Referee, Philosophy East and West (University of Hawaii) Referee, Journal of Japanese Philosophy (SUNY) Referee, European Journal of Japanese Philosophy (Alber) Editorial Board Member, European Network of Japanese Philosophy Languages Japanese research proficiency reading, speaking French research proficiency reading, speaking German research proficiency reading, speaking Professional Associations American Philosophical Association Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle European Network of Japanese Philosophy Other Relevant Experience : Japanese language study; English language editor, translator, and instructor (writing and speaking), Tokyo, Japan. 1998: Americorps VISTA member, Minneapolis, MN 5