Sean Dorrance Kelly

Sean Dorrance Kelly
Sean Dorrance Kelly
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Brown University; University of California, Berkeley;
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental; analytic;
Institutions	Princeton University; Harvard University;
Main interests	Phenomenology; existentialism; philosophy of mind; philosophy of perception; philosophy of literature;
Notable ideas	Meta-poiesis

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.^[1] He is an expert on phenomenology and philosophy of mind.

Education and career

A graduate of Brown University, 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.^[2]^[3] He is featured in Tao Ruspoli's film Being in the World.

Kelly was appointed as the next Harvard College Dean of Arts and Humanities in April 2024, and will begin acting in July. ^[4]

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

Articles

Chapter 6. Edmund Husserl and Phenomenology Solomon, Robert C., ed. (2007). The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy. David L. Sherman. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-4051-4304-2. OCLC 437147422.

References

^ "Dunster, Mather House Faculty Deans Settle Into New Positions | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
^ Book Review: All Things Shining, by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly
^ "What It All Means (Published 2011)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2017-07-21.
^ "Philosophy Professor Sean Kelly To Serve as Next Arts and Humanities Dean | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2024-05-10.

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[1] "Dunster, Mather House Faculty Deans Settle Into New Positions | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2018-07-09.

[2] Book Review: All Things Shining, by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly

[3] "What It All Means (Published 2011)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2017-07-21.

[4] "Philosophy Professor Sean Kelly To Serve as Next Arts and Humanities Dean | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2024-05-10.

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