Moods are powerful forces in our lives. When we enter into a mood—such as an anxious, irritable, depressed, bored, tranquil, or cheerful mood—we often find ourselves thinking, feeling, and acting in ways that are out of ...

In this dissertation, I put forward a novel interpretation of Heidegger's investigation of death in Being and Time before arguing that death serves to ground the intelligibility of human existence. I show that in situating ...

Unearthing and making explicit the conditions for human experience is the task of phenomenology. The methodologies deployed in service of this aim have traditionally focused on stripping away what is specific or idiosyncratic ...