Resume

• 2013

  Boston College

  Co-taught with Amelie Rorty a course on Ancient Greek Ethics.

  Boston University

  Taught courses on Logic and Critical Thinking

  and on the relationship between morality and our concept of the self

  culminating in a challenge to my students to take full responsibility for what happens in the world.

  Boston College

  Visiting Lecturer

  Taught courses on existentialism

  the ethics of economic systems

  and basic issues that obstruct fully engaged intellectual debate. Mentored students.

  DePaul University

  The Pennsylvania State University

  University Park

  Assistant Professor

• 2004

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Philosophy (History and Philosophy of Science)

  Boston College

• 2003

  Study Abroad for Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and Master of Arts (M.A.) degrees.

  Philosophy

  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

• 1998

  French

  Greek

  Ancient (to 1453)

  Spanish (reading)

  English

  German (reading)

  Bachelor of Humanities

  Philosophy

  Carleton University

  Honours

• Philosophy

  Telemark Skiing

  Critical Theory

  Philosophy Of Technology

  Phenomenology

  Acoustic Guitar

  Environmental Issues

  Thought Leadership

  Ancient Philosophy

  Soccer

  Business Ethics

  Rhetoric

  Photography

  Microsoft Office

  Leadership

  Philosophy Of Science

  Canoeing

  Academic Writing

  Writing

  Ethics

  On the Many Senses of Potency According to Aristotle

  According to Aristotle

  potency and energeia (being-at-work

  operation

  activity

  actuality) are both the same and different. To understand exactly how they are the same

  it is necessary to examine the different meanings or kinds of potency and the relationship between them

  which I do in this paper.

  On the Many Senses of Potency According to Aristotle

  Jon Burmeister

  In each part of this thought-provoking volume on the nature of language

  there are essays that demonstrate the immense intellectual potential of writing that refuses to see any decisive distinction between the present of philosophy and its history

  or between the ways in which Kant's work has been inherited in Anglo-American and Franco-German traditions. --Stephen Mulhall

  New College

  Oxford University

  author of Wittgenstein's Private Language\n\nThe contributions to this impressive volume ignore traditional divides between analytic and continental

  historical and systematic philosophy. This enables the authors to put a number of key issues in the philosophy of language into a striking new light.... Fully accessible to the advanced undergraduate in philosophy

  the book also contains many provocative ideas for the specialist. --Martin Kusch

  University of Cambridge

  author of Language as Calculus vs. Language as Universal Medium\n\nWith its robust range of complementary topics

  each subjected to penetrating examination

  this collection of essays makes a welcome contribution to the philosophy of language

  past and present --Daniel Dahlstrom

  Boston University

  author of Heidegger's Concept of Truth\n\nSince most inquiries into language remain enclosed in their own methodology

  terminology

  and tradition

  the multiplicity of approaches is often accompanied by their mutual isolation. This book shows that these traditions can

  however

  speak meaningfully to each other on language: rather than preventing dialogue

  their differences provide opportunities for fruitful inquiry. This book fills a gap in current scholarship by bringing together nine essays that

  through rejecting the debilitating yet often unquestioned divisions between disciplines

  are able to illuminate the fundamental nature of language.

  On Language: Analytic

  Continental

  and Historical Contributions

  In the Theaetetus Plato has Socrates suggest an astonishing thesis for testing: is speech meant to be a model for the structure of being? The thesis has been influential in the history of philosophy

  and is difficult to avoid when one argues that thinking or science occur in speech. Still

  the thesis--both its usefulness and its problems--give us a vivid contrast with an account of beings underlying modern exact and mechanistic science.

  Structures and Ethics of Technology

  By changing the medium or infrastructure of our actions and relationships

  technology and economic systems change the medium of ethical experience and action. Despite their overwhelming importance in contemporary life

  they have attracted an astonishingly small amount of systematic high level study

  just when it became more important than ever. I aim to contribute to the existing discussion and hopefully to broaden it as well.

  Sentesy

  Mark

  Sentesy

  Boston University

  The Pennsylvania State University

  DePaul University