Robert Piercey

Professor (Campion College)
Ph.D (University of Notre Dame); MA (University of Warwick); BA Honours (Memorial University)

Office: CM 506
E-mail: robert.piercey@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1214
Fax: 306-359-1200
Website: https://campioncollege.ca/resources/dr-robert-piercey/

Current classes
Fall 2023: PHIL 216-C01 Existential Philosophy; PHIL 291AB-C01 Pragmatism

Research interests

  • Post-Kantian European Philosophy
  • Historiography of Philosophy
  • Philosophy of History
  • Philosophy of Literature
  • Pragmatism.

  • “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.