Curriculum Vitae
Micah D. Tillman
micahtillman@[removethis]gmail.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Philosophy: The Catholic University of America . . . . . . . . . May, 2011
Dissertation: “Empty and Filled Intentions in Husserl’s Early Work”
Director: Dr. Robert Sokolowski
M.A., Philosophy: West Chester University of Pennsylvania . . . . . May, 2004
Thesis: “Whence Value?: Seeking Value’s Source”
Director: Dr. Seetha Burtner
B.A., magna cum laude, Computer Science: Messiah College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May, 2002
Minor: Music
AOS
Phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger)
AOC
History of Philosophy
Ethics
Logic
COURSES TAUGHT
The Catholic University of America
PHIL201: “The Classical Mind” . . . . . . . . . . . Falls 2006–2011; Summer 2008, 2011
9.5 / 10 (rating as instructor by students)
PHIL202: “The Modern Mind” . . . . . . . . . Springs 2007–2012; Fall 2007; Summer 2012
9.1 / 10 (rating as instructor by students)
PHIL308: “Philosophy of God” . . . . . . Summer 2011
8.9 / 10 (rating as instructor by students)
PHIL 351: “Introduction to Symbolic Logic” . . . . . . . . Spring 2012
[Instructor rating data not yet available]
PHIL454: “Contemporary Philosophy” . . . . . . Spring 2011
[Course not evaluated]
University of Maryland College Park
PHIL 324: “Existentialism” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fall 2011
3.8 / 4 (rating as instructor by students)
ACADEMIC TALKS
“Acts as Changes: A ‘Metabolic’ Approach to the Philosophy of Action”
Conference: “Time and Agency”
Washington, DC: George Washington University, November 18th, 2011
“Do Numerals Mean Anything?: Husserl’s Theory of Signs in ‘Mechanical’ Calculation”
Conference: “The Early Phenomenology of Munich and Göttingen”
Steubenville, OH: Franciscan University of Steubenville, April 29th or 30th, 2011
“Do Numerals Mean Anything?: The Practice of ‘Mechanical’ Calculation in Husserl’s Philosophy of Arithmetic”
Conference: First International Meeting of the Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice
Brussels, Belgium: University Foundation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, December 11th, 2010
“Locke’s Ontology of Power and the Roots of the Progressive/Conservative Rift”
Conference: 11th Boston College Graduate Philosophy Conference: “Power”
Boston, MA: Boston College, March 20th, 2010
“Flight from an Ontology of Hope to a Phenomenology of Political Unity: Husserl as Good Samaritan”
Conference: First Annual Duquesne University Graduate Philosophy Conference:
“Symbioses: Political Ontology and a New Metaphysics”
Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University, March 24th, 2007
“Finding James Ready-to-Hand: Introducing Heidegger and Levinas through James”
Conference: Annual Conference, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Interdisciplinary Association for Philosophy and Religious Studies
Panel: “Perspectives in Contemporary Continental Philosophy: Phenomenology, Pragmatism, Personalism”
Cheyney, PA: Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, April 3rd, 2004
COMMENTARY/RESPONSES
Response to Evan Ponton’s “Edith Stein on the Constitution of the Person in Emotional Experiences”
Conference: CUA Graduate Philosophy Conference: “Emotion”
Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America, March 30th, 2012
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Value Theory
Philosophy of Language
Epistemology
Philosophy of Action
LANGUAGES
French (reading knowledge)
German (reading knowledge)
CONTACT
micahtillman@[removethis]gmail.com
