John Lysaker

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Philosophy
561 S. Kilgo Circle
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

404-727-4857
404-712-9425 FAX

jlysake@emory.edu


Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1995

Research: philosophical psychology, aesthetics, social & political philosophy, and 19th & 20th century continental and American philosophy.

Selected Publications: Author of Emerson and Self-Culture (Indiana, 2008) and You Must Change Your Life: Poetry and the Birth of Sense (Penn State, 2002). Co-author of Schizophrenia and the Fate of the Self (Oxford, 2008) Articles, chapters, and reviews published in Schizophrenia Bulletin, The Georgia Review, Research in Phenomenology, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, TriQuarterly, New German Critique, and Philosophy and Social Criticism.

Current Vice President of the International Society for Dialogical Science. Former President, Northwest Philosophical Association (1998 & 2008). Member of the executive committee for The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (2006-09), the Program Committee for the Western APA (2000-03), and the Advocacy Committee for SPEP (2004-06). Member of the Editorial Board for The Journal of Speculative Philosophy and the International Journal for Dialogical Science as well as the series in American and Continental Philosophy published by Penn State Press.

Fellowships and Honors: Lokey Faculty Excellence Award (University of Oregon, 2007-09); Robert F. Wulf and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professorship in the Humanities, University of Oregon (2008-09).

Current Projects include a book on the nature of the self (tentative title, The Task of Being Human) as well as a collection of essays entitled Elaborating the Work of Art, which will provide an ontology of the work of art alongside sustained meditations on its import for politics and self-cultivation.