Department of Philosophy

Jeffrey Colgan

PhD Student

jcolgan@tulane.edu

Newcomb 107

Education

University of Iowa, Visiting PhD Student (Spring 2024)

City University of New York, Graduate Center (2020-2021)

MA, University of Chicago (2016)

BA, St. John’s College (2011)

Biography

Areas of Research

Ethics, Philosophy of Language, Political Philosophy, Post-Kantian European Philosophy (esp. Wittgenstein & Heidegger), Ancient Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy, History of Analytic Philosophy

Selected Publications

“Translating the Tractatus and Tractarian Ethics” in Passinsky, Asya, Julio De Rizzo, and Benjamin Schnieder, eds. Facets of Reality — Contemporary Debates: Proceedings of the 45^th International Wittgenstein Symposium. De Gruyter, forthcoming.

Review of Transcending Reason: Heidegger on Rationality, Matthew Burch and Irene McMullin, eds. Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, Vol. 13 (2023): 273-279.

“The Comstock Apparatus” chapter in Canaday, Margot, Nancy F. Cott, and Robert O. Self, eds. Intimate States: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern US History. University of Chicago Press, 2021. Co-written with Jeffrey Escoffier and Whitney Strub.

Teaching (Instructor of Record)

Buddhist Philosophy and Philosophy of Language (Fall 2024)

Religions of the World (Fall 2023)

Introduction to Philosophy: Environmental Ethics Focus (Spring 2023)

Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2022)

Website

Academia.edu

CV

Colgan_CV_5.24.pdf