MATTHEW C. ESHLEMAN Department of Philosophy and Religion Updated 10/12/15 University of North Carolina Wilmington Wilmington, NC 28403-3297 Office: (910) 962-2418 eshlemanm@uncw.edu EDUCATION: Ph.D. Philosophy, Duquesne University, 2005 M.A. Philosophy, Duquesne University, 2001 B.A. Philosophy, University of Minnesota, cum laude, 1995 AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AND COMPETENCE: AWARDS: POSITIONS AOS: Phenomenology, Sartre and History of French Philosophy AOC: Social and Political Philosophy and Modern Philosophy André Schuwer Award, best graduate essay in philosophy (2003-4) McAnulty Dissertation Fellowship (2004-5) Cahill Research Grant (2008) Summer Research Grant (2008) Essay of the Year in Phenomenology, Sartre Studies International, The Misplaced Chapter of Bad Faith (2010) Discere Aude Teaching Awards (2010, 2011) University of North Carolina at Wilmington Associate Professor, 2012- Assistant Professor, 2007-2011 University of Toledo Visiting Assistant Professor, 2005-7 PUBLICATIONS: Under Contract: The Sartrean Mind, Eds. Matthew Eshleman and Katherine Morris, (London: Routledge, 2017)
Peer-Reviewed: A Sketch of Sartre s Error Theory of Introspection, Prereflective Consciousness: Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind, Eds. Miguens, S., Bravo Morando, C. and Preyer, G., (London: Routledge, forthcoming, November 2015). Is Violence Necessarily in Bad Faith?, Sartre Studies International, Vol. 21, No. 2, (2015). Debunking Sartrean Relativism, co-authored with Taylor Smith, Sartre Studies International, Vol. 21. No.2, (2015). Jean-Paul Sartre and Phenomenological Ontology, Husserl s Ideen, Eds. L. Embree, T. Nenon, (New York: Springer Verlag, 2013). An Atypical Response to Living Without God, Sartre Studies International, Vol. 16, No. 2, (2010). What is It Like to be Free?, Reading Sartre, Ed. Jonathan Webber, (London: Routledge, 2010). Sartre on the Limits, Obstacles, and Constraints of Freedom, Ed. A, Mirvish, Sartre: New Perspectives, (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010). Beauvoir and Sartre on Freedom, Intersubjectivity, and Normative Justification, Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of Influence, Eds. Christine Daigle and Jacob Golomb, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009). Bad Faith is Necessarily Social, Sartre Studies International, Vol. 14, No. 2, (2008). The Misplaced Chapter on Bad Faith, or Reading Being and Nothingness in Reverse, Sartre Studies International, Vol. 14, No. 2, (2008). Anthologized in, Phenomenology 2010: Essays from North America, Eds. Lester Embree, Tom Nenon and Michael Barber (Bucharest: Zetabooks, 2010). The Cartesian Unconscious, History of Philosophy Quarterly, (July, 2007). Sartre and Foucault on Ideal Constraint, Sartre Studies International, Vol. 10, No. 2, (2004). Two Dogmas of Sartrean Existentialism, Philosophy Today, SPEP Supplement Vol. 28, 46:5, (2002). BOOK REVIEWS: Flynn, Thomas. Sartre: A Philosophical Biography, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), Sartre Studies International, Vol. 22, No. 2, (2015). 2
Wang, Stephen. Aquinas and Sartre: On Freedom, Personal Identity and the Possibility of Happiness, (Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2009). Sartre Studies International, Vol. 18, No. 2 (2012). Sze, Jennifer Ang Mei. Sartre and the Moral Limits of War and Terrorism, (London: Routledge, 2010). Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, (June 2010). Gardner, Sebastian. Sartre s Being and Nothingness, (London: Continuum, 2009), Sartre Studies International, Vol. 16, No. 2, (2010). Heter, Storm. Sartre s Ethics of Engagement, (London: Continuum, 2006). Sartre Studies International, Vol. 15, No. 2, (2009). Aronson, Ronald, Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended It, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004). Sartre and Camus: A Historic Confrontation, (eds.) and (trans) David A. Sprintzen and Adrian van den Hoven, (Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2004). Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française, Vol. XIV, (Fall 2004). PRESENTATIONS: Invited Talks: Is Sartre a Dualist?, Oxford University, Mansfield College, May 2015. Is Sartre a Dualist?, Bristol University, May 2015. What is It Like to Be Free?, Reading Sartre Conference, École normale Supérieure, Paris, September 2010. You Can't Get Something for Nothing: Sartre's Transcendental Argument for Freedom, University of Cardiff, U.K., July 2009. Referred Conference Presentations: Is Sartre a Hylomorphist?, Sartre Circle, Eastern APA, Washington, D.C. January, 2016. The Legacy of Adrian Mirvish: Sartre, Gestalt Psychology and Embodiment, North American Sartre Society, East Stroudsburg University Conference Center, Bethlehem, PA, November 2015. The Moral Tragedy of the Biological Imperative: What Nietzsche Can and Cannot Teach us about the Evolution of Morality, co-presented with Dr. Scott James at The Nature of Ethics The Ethics of Nature conference, University of Manchester, U.K., May 2015. 3
A Sketch of Sartre s Error Theory of Introspection, Thinking with Sartre Today: New Approaches to Sartre Studies? Oxford University, Maison Française d Oxford, U.K., January 2105. Is Bad Faith Necessarily in Violence?, Diverse Lineages of Existentialism, St. Louis, June 2014. Towards a Sartrean Error Theory of Introspection, Diverse Lineages of Existentialism, St. Louis, June 2014. Is Sartre a Dualist?, single-paper session with commentator, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, University of Oregon, October 2013. Ontological Pluralism: An Existential Meditation on the Verb to be, Central APA, Sartre Circle, New Orleans, February 2013. Is Sartre a Dualist?, North American Sartre Society, Texas A&M, November, 2012. What is a Phenomenological Ontology? United Kingdom Sartre Studies Society, London, Institut Francais, September 2011. Sartre s and Transcendental Arguments, North American Sartre Society, Montreal University, April 2011 (Unable to attend). Sartre on the Principle of Identity, Central APA, Sartre Circle, Minneapolis, March 2011. What Atheism Entails about Morality: Almost Nothing, North American Sartre Society, University of Memphis, October 2009. Bad Faith is Necessarily Social, Central APA, Sartre Circle, Chicago, February 2009. Detmer and the Sartre Renaissance?, Eastern APA, Sartre Circle, New York, December 2008. On Michel Foucault, Skepticism, and the Grand Rise of Social Engineering, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Duquesne University, October 2008. On Michel Foucault, Skepticism, and the Grand Rise of Social Engineering, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, EPTC/TPCE, University of British Columbia, June 2008. Sartre on Human Reality, North American Sartre Society, University of Mary Washington, April 2008. Sartre on Freedom: A Novel Interpretation, North American Sartre Society, Fordham University, October 2006. What is a Rose? The Sartrean Space in between Realism and Idealism, North American Sartre Society, Fordham University, October 2006. 4
Simone de Beauvoir and the Problem of Moral Pluralism, Society for Phenomenology and Existentialism, Villanova University, October 2006. Simone de Beauvoir on Moral Justification, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, EPTC/TPCE Program, York University, May 2006. The Misplaced Chapter on Bad Faith, or Reading Being and Nothingness in Reverse, Eastern APA, Sartre Circle, New York, December 2005. The Cartesian Unconscious, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, EPTC/TPCE Program, University of Western Ontario, May 2005. Simone de Beauvoir on Normative Justification: The Space in Between Transcendental Objectivity and Relativism, Simone de Beauvoir Society, Claremont Graduate University, April 2005. Sartre on Ideal Constraint and Freedom, Central APA, Sartre Circle, Chicago, April 2005. A Foucauldean Problem: Towards a Sartrean Solution, North American Sartre Society, University of San Francisco, February 2005. Sartre on the Unconscious, Translucency, and Apodicticity, North American Sartre Society, Purdue University, September 2003. Two Dogmas of Sartrean Existentialism, Society for Phenomenology and Existentialism, University of Loyola, Chicago, October 2002. Two Views of Freedom and Subjectivity in Sartre s Early Ontology, North American Sartre Society, Loyola University (New Orleans), March 2002. A Radical? Reinterpretation of Sartre s Early View of Freedom, Central APA, Minneapolis, May 2001. Value-Neutrality, Transgression, and Freedom: Towards a Foucauldean Ethic of Liberation, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, University of Oregon, October 1999. Selves and Subjects: Opening a Dialogue between Sartre and Foucault, North American Sartre Society, Loyola Marymont, February 1999. Sartre on the Puzzle of Self-Knowledge, World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 1998. Sartre and Beauvoir: Authenticity and the Pursuit of Meaning, North American Sartre Society, Emory University, October 1997. LANGUAGES: French: Reading Comprehension 5
SERVICE: Profession: President of the North American Sartre Society Executive Committee Member for Diverse Lineages of Existentialism Editor of Sartre section for PhilPapers.org Reviewer, Oxford University Press Referee, Columbia University Press Referee, University Chicago Press Referee, SUNY Press Referee, Sartre International Studies Referee, British Journal for the History of Philosophy RECOMMENDATIONS: Professor Thomas Flynn, Philosophy, Emory University Professor Constance Mui, Philosophy, Loyola University Professor Tom Rockmore, Philosophy, Duquesne University Professor Ronald Santoni, Emeritus, Philosophy, Denison University 6