Social Phenomenology

Eric Chelstrom served as Visiting Assistant Professor in philosophy at Grand Valley State University from 2009-2012 and currently continues to teach in there and in Grand Rapids area. He completed his doctoral studies in philosophy at the University at Buffalo State University of New York under the direction of Kah Kyung Cho. He has presented at number of international conferences on issues ranging from the ontology of music to social ontology. Dr. Chelstrom's current research includes work on the role of horizon intentionality in Aristotelian friendships to be published in a forthcoming volume titled Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics; research in the history of phenomenology including work on the analyses of evil in phenomenology prior to Paul Ricoeur's Symbolism of Evil and on the influence of Adolf Reinach's social ontology on Edith Stein's philosophy; finally his research is beginning to turn to the implications of a theory of collective intentionality for our understanding of the nature of art paying specific attention to arguments from Arthur Danto's essay The Artworld. Language: English