DAVID W. JOHNSON CURRICULUM VITÆ Department of Philosophy Tel: 617-552-3709 Boston College Fax: 617-552-3874 349 N. Stokes, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467 Email: david.johnson.8@bc.edu Academic Appointments Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Boston College, 2013 present Visiting Appointments Haas Fellow, Bibliotheca Mystica et Philosophica Alois M. Haas, and Visiting Researcher, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain (spring semester, 2018) Visiting Research Fellow, The International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan (2015-2016) 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 (2010-2011) B.A., Philosophy, Emory University (1997) Yonsei University, Korea exchange student: studies in Confucianism, Neo- Confucianism, Daoism, Zen Buddhism, East Asian art history, Korean history, Korean language (1996-1997) Areas of Specialization Contemporary Japanese Philosophy (Watsuji, Nishida) Hermeneutics and Phenomenology (Gadamer, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty) Areas of Competence Classical Chinese Philosophy, Aesthetics, Ethics Publications Book Manuscript (manuscript in press with the Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy series at Northwestern University Press) Watsuji on Nature: Japanese Philosophy in the Wake of Heidegger 1
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, 2018. 6. Acting-Intuition and the Achievement of Perception: Merleau-Ponty with Nishida, Philosophy East and West, Vol. 67, No. 3, 2017, 693-709. 5. Watsuji s Topology of the Self, Asian Philosophy, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2016, 216 240. 4. The Experience of Truth: Gadamer on the Belonging Together of Self, World, and Language, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2015, 373 96. 3. Perception, Expression, and the Continuity of Being: Some Intersections Between Nishida and Gadamer, Asian Philosophy, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2014, 48-66. 2. Merleau-Ponty and the Other World of Painting: A Response, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 40, No. 1, 2009, 89-97. 1. What Does Academic Skepticism Presuppose? Arcesilaus, Carneades, and the Argument with Stoic Epistemology, Lyceum, Vol. 10, No. 1, Fall 2008, 44-54. Refereed Book Chapter 1. Fūdo as the Disclosure of Nature: Re-Reading Watsuji with Heidegger, Critical Perspectives on Japanese Philosophy, ed. Takeshi Morisato (Nagoya: Nanzan Institute Press), 2016, 299-326. Other Publication 1. Beauty and the Promise of Happiness, Heso, No. 8, Sept/Oct 2007, 17-24 (concurrently published in Japanese as Bi to Kōfuku no Yakusoku ; translated into Japanese by David W. Johnson). Refereed Presentations 2018 Dasein as Being-in-Relation-to-Others: Watsuji and Heidegger on Intersubectivity, The European Network of Japanese Philosophy, Hildesheim, Germany (forthcoming, September 2018) Culture as the Completion of Nature: Fūdo as Philosophical Concept, The Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle Conference, Bath, UK (April 7) 2017 Fūdo 風土 : History, Language, and Philosophy, The European Network of Japanese Philosophy, Paris, France (November 3) 2016 Cultivating the Interlacing of Self and World: Nishida and the Phenomenology of Perception, Nishida Philosophy Association Conference, Tokyo, Japan (July 24) 2
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) 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) 2018 Fūdo 風土 : From Ordinary Term to Philosophical Concept, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien, Tokyo, Japan (July 2nd) Watsuji s Philosophical Anthropology, Temple University Japan, Tokyo, Japan (June 27th) 3
Lecture series in Japanese philosophy given at the University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia sponsored by the ERASMUS+ Staff Mobility Program (May 1st-May 11th) Nature, Culture, and Lifeworld: Some Ontological Considerations, seminar given for faculty and graduate students at the Institut de Cultura at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain (April 11) Nature, History, Transcendence: Watsuji on the Spatio-Temporal Structure of Human Existence, 場所, χώρα, Einraümen: Conceptualizing the Place of the Coincidentia Oppositorum Workshop, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain (February 19) 2017 Watsuji s Philosophy of Nature, Boston College Symposium on Contemporary Philosophy, Boston, MA (May 26) 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 Workshop, 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) Invited Responses 2017 Panel Discussant, Imagining Evil: Buddhist Visions of Suffering and Transcendence, panel at the Association for Asian Studies (New England) Conference, Boston, MA (Jan. 29) 2016 Response to Kazashi Nobuo, Zen Thought in Modern Japan New Steps in Japanese Studies Workshop, Kobe, Japan (July 22) 4
2009 Response to Jerome Veith, Phronesis as Self-Knowledge, Ancient Philosophy Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD (April 25) Awards and Grants ERASMUS+ Staff Mobility for Teaching Grant to support a two-week lecture series on twentieth-century Japanese philosophy given at the University of Latvia Haas Fellowship, the Bibliotheca Mystica et Philosophica Alois M. Haas, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain (one-semester fellowship and stipend) 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 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 (one-year stipend) University Fellowship, The Graduate School, The Pennsylvania State University George R. Gibbons Scholarship, Emory University Teaching Asian Philosophy (undergraduate) Hermeneutics, Language, Politics (undergraduate) Perspectives on Western Culture (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-Fall 2018) Undergraduate Major Assessments Committee (Spring 2015) Graduate Placement Committee (Fall 2013-Fall 2014) Supervised Dissertations, Theses, and Directed Readings - J. Conley, PhD dissertation (ongoing) - K. Fan, Senior Honors Thesis (ongoing) - Director, Philosophy Honors Seminar, Fall 2017 - J. Holloman and J. Butler, M.A. candidates, Gadamer directed reading, spring 2017 5
- J. Hirsch, Senior Honors Thesis (title: Mindfulness Practice, Foul Bodies, and the Philosophical Potential of the Nondual Body in Theravāda Buddhism ) fall 2014 spring 2015 - S. Driscoll, PhD candidate, Gadamer directed reading, fall 2014 - H. Deghani, PhD candidate, Merleau-Ponty directed reading, spring 2014 Doctoral Comprehensive Exams - S. Driscoll, Heidegger on language - R. Brown, philosophical hermeneutics To the College of Arts and Sciences and the University - Member, Organizing Committee, Association for Asian Studies (New England), Conference held at Boston College (Jan. 28th-29th, 2017) - Faculty mentor of BC Undergraduate Research Fellow M. Watson (spring 2017) - On-campus interviewer for the Fulbright Program at Boston College (fall 2017) - Faculty Member, Boston College Asian Studies Program To the Profession - Referee, Philosophy East and West (University of Hawaii) - Referee, Journal of Japanese Philosophy (SUNY) - Referee, Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Taylor and Francis) - Referee, European Journal of Japanese Philosophy (Alber) - Referee, Contemporary Japan (Taylor and Francis) - Book Manuscripts Reviewer, Palgrave Macmillan - Book Manuscripts Reviewer, SUNY Press - Book Series Reviewer, Tetsugaku Companions to Japanese Philosophy (Springer) - Editorial Board Member, European Network of Japanese Philosophy - Organizer, Comparative Philosophy Panel, Association for Asian Studies (New England) Conference, Boston, Jan. 28th-29th, 2017 Languages Japanese research proficiency reading, speaking German research proficiency reading, speaking French research proficiency reading, speaking Learned Societies 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 1999-2005: Japanese language study; English language editor, translator, and instructor (writing and speaking), Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. 1998: Americorps VISTA member, Minneapolis, MN 6