Table of Contents

Preface
by Peter S. Fosl, Michael J. McGandy, and Mark D. Moorman
Introduction: Joseph P. Fell and the Traditions of Phenomenological Existentialism in America
by Michael J. McGandy
Part 1. Orientations
1.What is Philosophy?
by Joseph P. Fell
2.Joseph Fell as Teacher
by Mark D. Moorman
3.Style in Teaching Philosophy
by Peter S. Fosl
4.The Eclipse and Rebirth of American Philosophical Pluralism
by Armen T. Marsoobian
Part 2. The European Tradition
5.An Aristotelian Argument against the Inquiring of the Nicomachean Ethics
by Jeffrey S. Turner
6.Why Heidegger?
by David Weinberger
7.Placing Common Life: Fell and Skepticism
by Peter S. Fosl
8.“Honoring one’s commitments….”
by Dennis Schmidt
Part 3. Joining the American Tradition
9.From Place to Midworld: A Key Development in the Philosophy of Joseph P. Fell
by Mark D. Moorman
10.The Reclamation of History: Does Miller’s Philosophical Project Preclude a “Radical Will?”
by Vincent M. Colapietro
11.Ordinary Studies: Conceptual Brackets—Textual Moments
by Richard Fleming
Part 4. Prospects
12.Re-Orienting Thinking: Philosophy in the Midst of the World
by Jeffery Malpas
13.Heideggerian Pathways through Existential Crisis: A “Hermeneutics of Facticity”
by Scott D. Churchill
14.The Humanity of the Severely Handicapped within Sartre’s Ethics
by Kenneth L. Anderson
15.The Integrity of Finitude: Existential Reckoning in the Work of John William Miller
by Katie Terezakis
16.Descartes, Nihilism, and Jonas's "Third Road"
by Gary Steiner
Coda: More I Cannot Wish You
by Joseph P. Fell
A Bibliography of Joseph Fell’s Work
Contributors
Endnotes
Index

About the Author

Peter S. Fosl is professor of philosophy and chair of PPE at Transylvania University.

Michael J. McGandy is senior editor with Cornell University Press.

Mark D. Moorman is an independent scholar.