Dr. Robert Piercey
Professor of Philosophy
BA Hons (Memorial), MA (Warwick), PhD (Notre Dame)
robert.piercey@uregina.ca
Phone: 306.586.4242, ext. 214 | Office: CM 506
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Research Interests
- Post-Kantian European Philosophy
- Historiography of Philosophy
- Philosophy of History
- Philosophy of Literature
- Pragmatism
Current Scholarly Projects
Much of my research concerns the intersections between philosophy and other areas. I’ve written quite a bit on the relation between philosophy and its history, especially on what it might mean to say that philosophy is inherently historical. More recently, I’ve been doing research into the philosophical dimensions of reading. I’ve published articles on a wide range of post-Kantian philosophers—including Hegel, Husserl, Gadamer, Habermas, and Deleuze—and I have a particularly keen interest in the work of Paul Ricoeur.
I’m editor of the journal Philosophy in Review.
Representative Publications
- “Too Many Hegels? Ricoeur’s Relation to German Idealism Reconsidered.” In The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Phenomenology, ed. Cynthia Coe. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
- Reading as a Philosophical Practice. Anthem Press, 2020.
- “The Metaphilosophy of the Analytic-Continental Divide: From History to Hope.” In The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology, ed. Giuseppina D’Oro and Soren Overgaard. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- The Uses of the Past From Heidegger to Rorty: Doing Philosophy Historically. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- The Crisis in Continental Philosophy: History, Truth and the Hegelian Legacy. Continuum, 2009.
