Sean Dorrance Kelly is an American philosopher, currently the Teresa G. and Ferdinand F. Martignetti Professor of Philosophy at
Harvard University, where he also serves as Faculty Dean of
Dunster House
Dunster House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University. Built in 1930, it is one of the first two dormitories at Harvard University constructed under President Abbott Lawrence Lowell's House Plan and one of the sev ...
. He is an expert on
phenomenology
Phenomenology may refer to:
Art
* Phenomenology (architecture), based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties
Philosophy
* Phenomenology (philosophy), a branch of philosophy which studies subjective experiences and a ...
and
philosophy of mind.
Education and career
A graduate of
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
, he received his PhD from the
University of California, Berkeley, in 1998, and was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at
Princeton University from 1999 until 2006, when he moved to Harvard. He is known for his expertise on various aspects of the philosophical, phenomenological, and cognitive neuroscientific nature of
human experience
The human condition is all of the characteristics and key events of human life, including birth, learning, emotion, aspiration, morality, conflict, and death. This is a very broad topic that has been and continues to be pondered and analyzed fr ...
.
What It All Means
/ref> He is featured in Tao Ruspoli's film '' Being in the World''.
Books
* ''The Relevance of Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Language and Mind'' (Studies in Philosophy), Sean D. Kelly, Routledge, 2000
* ''All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age'', Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly, Free Press, 2011
See also
*Critique of technology
Criticism of technology is an analysis of adverse impacts of industrial and digital technologies. It is argued that, in all advanced industrial societies (not necessarily only capitalist ones), technology becomes a means of domination, control, a ...
* Hubert Dreyfus
References
External links
Sean Dorrance Kelly
All Things Shining
Sean Dorrance Kelly on lack of the sacred in our existence
21st-century American philosophers
Phenomenologists
Continental philosophers
Philosophers of art
Philosophers of language
Philosophers of science
Philosophers of mind
Philosophers of culture
Daseinsanalysis
Existentialists
Philosophy academics
Heidegger scholars
Living people
Harvard University faculty
Brown University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Academic staff of the École Normale Supérieure
Princeton University faculty
Stanford University faculty
Date of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
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