217 Kelton Street, Apt 15 Allston, MA, 02134 Jordan D. Kokot (Curriculum Vitae) [email protected] / 616.648.5629 jdkokot.com
Areas of Specialization Phenomenology (esp. of Time) Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art Philosophy of Technology
Areas of Competence Ethics (esp. of Technology) Late Modern Philosophy (esp. Nietzsche & Heidegger) Philosophy of Time
Education Ph.D. in Philosophy Boston University, Expected 2021 Dissertation Title: The Phenomenology of Time-Consciousness in Art: Merleau-Ponty, Temporality, and the Rupture of Freedom First Reader: Daniel Dahlstrom, Silber Professor of Philosophy (BU) Second Reader: Allen Speight, Associate Professor of Philosophy (BU) Third Reader: Walter Hopp, Associate Professor of Philosophy (BU)
M.A. in Philosophy Boston University, May 2013 Thesis Title: Nietzsche and Governance: Meritocracy, Democracy, and Agonal Oligarchy First Advisor: Paul Katsafanas, Associate Professor of Philosophy (BU) Second Advisor: Allen Speight, Associate Professor of Philosophy (BU)
B.A. in Liberal Arts (Majors in Philosophy and English Literature, with Honors) DePauw University, May 2009 Thesis Advisor: Deborah Geis, Raymond W. Pence Professor of English (DePauw)
Publications “Shock Fronts: Merleau-Ponty, Richard Muller, and the Leading Edge of Now” in Space and Time: An Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. Jonas Čiurlionis (Vilnius University Press) (forthcoming) Academic Appointments Tufts University, Medford, MA, ExCollege Program, Visiting Lecturer, Spring 2021 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Teaching Fellow, 2019-present Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity, William S. Minor Fellow, 2020 Boston University, Writing Department, Writing Fellow, 2018-2020 Teaching Experience Courses with Full Responsibility PH 150: Ethics (Spring 2021, Boston University) EXP-00xx: Virtual Reality: The Ethics of Future Technology (Spring 2021, Tufts ExCollege) WR 152: (Digital Writing & Research): Future, Futurism, & Technology (Spring 2020, BU) WR 120: (Writing & Phil. Seminar): Art, Existentialism, & Authenticity (Fall 2019, BU) Jordan D. Kokot (C.V.) 2
Courses with Full Responsibility (cont.) WR 150: (Research & Phil. Seminar): Future, Futurism, & Technology (ConSpring 2019, BU) WR 120: Through a Glass Darkly: Art, Existentialism, & Freedom (Fall 2018, BU) PH 110: Great Philosophers (Summer 2015, Boston University)
Courses taught as Teaching Fellow GENED 1171: Justice in an Age of Pandemic & Racial Reckoning (Harvard, Prof. Sandel) PH 100 OL: Introduction to Philosophy (Summer, 2020 BU Online, Prof. Hopp) GOVT E-1063: Democracy and its Discontents (Spring, 2020 Harvard Extension, Prof. Gray) GENED 1058: Tech Ethics: AI, Biotech, and the Future of Human Nature (Fall 2019, Harvard, Profs. Sandel and Melton) PH 248: Existentialism (Spring 2018, BU, Prof. Hopp) PH 155: Politics and Philosophy (Fall 2017, BU, Prof. Griswold) PH 150: Intro to Ethics (Spring 2016, BU, Prof. Katsafanas) PH 150: Intro to Ethics (Fall 2015, BU, Prof. Star) PH 259: Philosophy and the Arts (Spring 2015, BU, Prof. Speight) PH 251: Medical Ethics (Fall 2014, BU, Prof. Sherman) PH 241: Philosophy of Personality (Fall 2013, BU, Prof. Kestenbaum)
Presentations and Conference Invitations + denotes upcoming “Synthetic Phenomenologies: Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, and Positional Temporality” Technology and Coexistence: Phenomenological and Anthropological Perspectives, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy, February 2021.+ “Immediacy, Presence, and Attention: Schutz, Tengelyi, and Merleau-Ponty on the Phenomenology of Creative Time” American Society for Aesthetics, National Meeting, Washington D.C., November 2020.+ American Institute for Philosophical and Cultural Thought William S. Minor Fellowship Lecture, September, 2020. (Invited) “Immediacy, Presence, and Attention” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 2020. “Perceptual Presence, Perceptual Constancy, and the Aesthetic Temporality of Style” American Society for Aesthetics, National Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, October 2019. “Living Now: Sedimentation, Temporality, and Perspectival Lensing in Terrance Malick’s The Tree of Life” Gettysburg College Philosophy and Film Seminar, 'The Art of Modern Time: Film and the Representation of Temporality,' Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, April 2019. “Perceptual Presence, Perceptual Constancy, and the Aesthetic Temporality of Style” American Society for Aesthetics, Eastern Division, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 2019. “Sickness not unto Death: Convalescence and Nietzsche’s ‘Anti-Perfectionism’ about Health” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, New York, New York, January 2019. “One Thing is Needful: Merleau-Ponty, Nietzsche, and the Style of Styles” American Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Division, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 2018 “Shock Fronts: Merleau-Ponty, Richard Muller, and the Leading Edge of Now” The International Conference on Space and Time: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Vilnius University, Lithuania, September 2017. “The Pleasantness of Pleasures: an Argument against Hedonistic Theories of Well-Being from the Non- Comparability of Pleasures” Western Michigan University Graduate Conference in Philosophy, November 2016.
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Works in Progress/Under Review “Perceptual Presence, Perceptual Constancy, and the Aesthetic Temporality of Style” “The Pleasantness of Pleasures: an Argument against Hedonistic Theories of Well-Being from the Non- Comparability of Pleasures"” “Sickness not unto Death: Convalescence and Nietzsche’s ‘Anti-Perfectionism’ about Health,” Awards and Fellowships • William S. Minor Dissertation Fellowship (Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity), 2020 • Graduate Certificate in Teaching Writing (Boston University Writing Program), Dec. 2020 (expected) • Departmental Nomination for the Boston University Center for Humanities Dissertation Fellowship, 2019 • Irene H. Chayes Travel Grant (American Society of Aesthetics, National) 2019 • Irene H. Chayes Travel Grant (American Society of Aesthetics, East), 2019 • Summer Research Fellowship (BU Dept. of Philosophy), Summer 2019 • Dissertation Research Travel Fellowship (BU Dept. of Philosophy), Summer 2019 • Irene H. Chayes Travel Grant (American Society of Aesthetics, RMD), 2018 • Boston University Graduate Writing Fellowship, 2018-2020 • The Society for Applied Philosophy Event Grant for the 2018 BU Philosophy Grad. Conf., Fall 2017 • Boston University Graduate Student Organization Travel Grant, Fall 2017 • Boston University Summer Research Fellowship, 2016 • Boston University Teaching Fellowship, 2014-2018 • Boston University Qualifying Paper Funding, Summer 2015 • Boston University Dean's Fellowship, 2013-2014
Professional Services, etc. • Co-President of the Boston University Philosophy Department Graduate Student Organization (2019-2020) • Organizer of : “Creative Time: Film, Poetry, and Disruptive Temporalities,” a five person panel for The Society for Philosophy and Creativity at the 2020 Eastern APA • Research Assistant for an ongoing project on phenomenology and virtual reality (under Daniel Dahlstrom) • Co-Organizer of the 2018 Boston University Graduate Conference in Philosophy, titled “Social Implications: Applying Academic Philosophy Outside of the Academy.” • New Graduate Student Mentor, 2014-2018 • Organizer and Participant, BU Aesthetics and Phil. of Art Reading Group, 2014-2018 • Organizer and Participant, BU Philosophy and Time Reading Group, 2018 • Researcher and Assistant Editor for Kant and His Contemporaries¸ 2018 (under Daniel Dahlstrom) • Copy Editor for Routledge Philosophy Minds: Nietzsche, 2018 (under Paul Katsafanas) • Moderator at the 2016 and 2017 Boston Phenomenology Circle Symposium • Moderator at the 2016 Boston University Graduate Conference • Commentator for Matt Dill, "On Nietzsche's Evaluative Constituitivism," Spring 2016 • Reviewer for the 2015 Boston University Graduate Conference
Language Skills • French (Alliance Française A2/B1, Marseille, France, Summer 2019) • German Reading
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Professional Memberships • The American Association of Philosophy Teachers • The American Philosophical Association • The American Society for Aesthetics • The Boston Phenomenology Circle • The Heidegger Circle • MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) • The Society for Analytical Feminism • The Society for Applied Philosophy • The Society for the Philosophy of Creativity
Graduate Coursework * denotes audit Modern European Philosophy 19th Century Philosophy (Paul Katsafanas) Phenomenology Seminar (Walter Hopp) Hegel Seminar (Alfredo Ferrarin) Heidegger: Being & Time (Daniel Dahlstrom) Heidegger: Later Writings/Nietzsche Lectures (Daniel Dahlstrom) Kant: 3rd Critique (Alfredo Ferrarin) Kant: Moral Philosophy (Manfred Kuehn) Marx and Marxism (Tian Yu Cao)* Nietzsche: Moral Philosophy (Paul Katsafanas) Wittgenstein Seminar (Juliette Floyd)* Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art Action, Interpretation, Narrative (Allen Speight) Aesthetics (Allen Speight) Philosophy of Film (Aaron Garrett)* Topics in Philosophy and Religion: Beyond Aesthetics Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy Ethical Theory Seminar (Daniel Star) Legal Philosophy (J. Baxter) The Philosophy of Death (David Liebesman) Topics in Political Philosophy: Anarchism (Aaron Garrett and David Lyons) Topics in Law: Crime and Punishment (Kenneth Simmons) Topics in the Philosophy of Value: Shame (Daniel Dahlstrom)* Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, and Other Topics Aristotle (Jakko Hintikka) Advanced Logic (Judson Webb) Epistemology Seminar (Walter Hopp) Philosophy of Science (Alisa Bokulich)* Topics in Knowledge, Language, and Logic: Propositions (David Liebeman)
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Research (R) and Teaching (T) References Auxier, Randall, PhD., Professor of Daniel Dahlstrom, PhD., John R. Silber Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, Professor of Philosophy, Chair of the Carbondale (R) Philosophy Department, Boston University (R) Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone (office): 618-453-1882 Phone (office): 617-353-2571
Charles Griswold, PhD., Borden Parker Walter Hopp, PhD., Associate Professor of Browne Professor. of Philosophy, Boston Philosophy, Boston University (R/T) University (T) Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone (office): 617-353-2571 Phone (office): 617-353-2571
Myron Jackson, PhD., Professor of Paul Katsafanas, PhD., Associate Professor Philosophy, Besl Chair of Ethics, Xavier of Philosophy, Boston University (R/T) University (R) Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone (office): 617-353-2571 Phone (office): 513-745-3827
Victor Kestenbaum, PhD., Professor. of Samantha Matherne, PhD., Assistant Philosophy Emeritus, Boston University (R/T) Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University Email: [email protected] (R) Phone (office): 617-353-2571 Email: [email protected] Phone (office): 617-495-2191
Michael Sandel, PhD., Anne T. & Robert M. Allen Speight, PhD., Associate Professor Bass Professor of Government, Harvard Philosophy, Boston University (R/T) University (T) Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone (office): 617-353-2571 Phone (office): 617-495-2097