Faculty Research Highlights (2020-2025)
Faculty in the FGCU Philosophy Program are highly engaged teacher-scholars. In addition to teaching and mentoring students, they are engaged in research on a variety of important contemporary topics and on figures and traditions from the history of philosophy. Below is a list of works published by FGCU faculty in recent years.
Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
Culbertson, Carolyn. 鈥淪hared Understanding Before Semantic Agreement: Gadamer on the Hidden Ground of Linguistic Community.鈥� Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 56 (2025).
Aho, Kevin. 鈥淐ritical Phenomenology and Functional Neurological Disorder: A Commentary on Carel and Kidd鈥檚 Conception of Vulnerabilisation.鈥� Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, Vol. 14 (2025).
Aho, Kevin and Costello, Matthew C. 鈥淭he Paradoxical Nature of Adult Older Embodiment.鈥� Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy (2025).
Aho, Kevin and Leder, Drew. 鈥淭ransformational Healing: The Phenomenology of Fulfillment in the Face of Adversity.鈥� Medical Humanities, Vol. 51 (2025).
Culbertson, Carolyn. Gadamer and the Social Turn in Epistemology. (State University of New York Press, 2024).
Culbertson, Carolyn. 鈥�贵奴诲辞蝉别颈 and the Hermeneutics of Nature.鈥� Research in Phenomenology Vol. 54, no. 1 (2024).
Culbertson, Carolyn. 鈥淭he Historical Situation of Thought as a Hermeneutic Principle.鈥� In Truth and Method: A Polyphonic Commentary, edited by Cynthia Nielsen and Greg Lynch (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2022).
Aho, Kevin. 鈥淭he Uncanny in the Time of Pandemics: Heideggerean Reflections on the Coronavirus.鈥� Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, Vol. 10 (2020).
Culbertson, Carolyn. 鈥淕adamer鈥檚 Concept of Language.鈥� In The Gadamerian Mind, edited by Theodore George and Gert-Jan van der Heiden (Routledge, 2021).
Culbertson, Carolyn. 鈥淧lay in Conversation: The Cognitive Import of Gadamer鈥檚 Theory of Play.鈥� In Language and Phenomenology, edited by Chad Engelland (Routledge, 2020).
Metaphysics and Epistemology
Culbertson, Carolyn. 鈥淲hy Natural Language Processing is Not Reading: Two Philosophical Distinctions and Their Educational Import.鈥� Journal of Applied Hermeneutics Vol. 2025 (2025).
Hentrup, Miles. 鈥淗egel鈥檚 Theory of Rational Proof.鈥� Hegel Bulletin (2025).
Culbertson, Carolyn. Gadamer and the Social Turn in Epistemology. State University of New York Press, 2024.
Hentrup, Miles. 鈥淩obb Dunphy, Hegel and the Problem of Beginning: Scepticism and Presuppositionlessness.鈥� Hegel Bulletin, Vol. 45 (2024).
Culbertson, Carolyn. 鈥淭estimonial Justice Beyond Belief: Gert-Jan Van der Heiden鈥檚 Philosophy of Testimony.鈥� 贰辫辞肠丑茅: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 27 (2023).
Hentrup, Miles. 鈥淪kepticism and Negativity in Hegel鈥檚 Philosophy.鈥� Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol. 39 (2023).
Frim, Landon. 鈥淭he Prequel vs. Free Will.鈥� In Better Call Saul and Philosophy, edited by Joshua Heter and Brent Coppenger (Carus Books, 2022).
Ethics and Social-Political Philosophy
Portella, Eli. 鈥淔eminism Beyond Welfare: Care, Socialization, and the Politics of the State.鈥� Feminist Theory, Vol. 26 (2024).
Portella, Eli and Busk, Larry Alan. 鈥淭he Contradiction Between Use-Value and Exchange-Value: Ecology, Imperialism, and the Telos of Production.鈥� Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis, Vol. 3 (2024).
Frim, Landon. 鈥淭he Godfather, the Son, and World Spirit.鈥� In The Godfather and Philosophy, edited by Joshua Heter and Richard Green (Carus Books, 2023).
Portella, Eli and Busk, Larry Alan. 鈥淭he Formal and Real Subsumption of Gender Relations: Challenging the Transhistorical Status of 鈥楶atriarchy.鈥欌�� Historical Materialism, Vol. 32 (2023).
Frim, Landon and Fluss, Harrison. Prometheus and Gaia: Technology, Ecology, and Anti-Humanism. (Anthem Press, 2022).
Portella, Eli. 鈥淭he Weapon of Theory Reconsidered: Anti-Colonial Thought and the Post-Cold War Imaginary.鈥� Radical Philosophy Review, Vol. 25 (2022).
Frim, Landon. 鈥淪hould the State Teach Ethics?: A Schematism鈥� Symposion, Vol. 9 (2022).
Hentrup, Miles. 鈥淐omments on Knowledge and Ideology: The Epistemology of Social and Political Critique.鈥� Florida Philosophical Review, Vol. 19 (2020).
History of Philosophy
Hentrup, Miles. 鈥淗egel鈥檚 Theory of Rational Proof.鈥� Hegel Bulletin (2025).
Hentrup, Miles. 鈥淩obb Dunphy, Hegel and the Problem of Beginning: Scepticism and Presuppositionlessness.鈥� Hegel Bulletin, Vol. 45 (2024).
Hentrup, Miles. 鈥淪kepticism and Negativity in Hegel鈥檚 Philosophy.鈥� Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol. 39 (2023).
Medical Humanities and Philosophical Psychiatry
Aho, Kevin. 鈥淐ritical Phenomenology and Functional Neurological Disorder: A Commentary on Carel and Kidd鈥檚 Conception of Vulnerabilisation.鈥� Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, Vol. 14 (2025).
Aho, Kevin and Costello, Matthew C. 鈥淭he Paradoxical Nature of Adult Older Embodiment.鈥� Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy (2025).
Aho, Kevin and Leder, Drew. 鈥淭ransformational Healing: The Phenomenology of Fulfillment in the Face of Adversity.鈥� Medical Humanities, Vol. 51 (2025).
Aho, Kevin. The Routledge Handbook of Existentialism, co-edited with Megan Altman and Hans Pedersen (2024).
Aho, Kevin. 鈥淓xistentialism.鈥� Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2023).
Aho, Kevin. One Beat More: Existentialism and the Gift of Mortality (Polity, 2022).
Aho, Kevin. 鈥溾�榃e鈥檙e protecting them to death鈥�: A Heideggerian Interpretation of Loneliness Among Older Adults in Long-term Care Facilities During COVID-19.鈥� Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (2022).
Aho, Kevin. 鈥淭he Uncanny in the Time of Pandemics: Heideggerean Reflections on the Coronavirus.鈥� Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, Vol. 10 (2020).
Aho, Kevin. 鈥淭he Contraction of Time and Existential Awakening: A Phenomenology of Authentic Aging.鈥� In The Evening of Life: The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well, edited by J. Davis & P. Scherz (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020).