David Suarez

(he/him)

• PhD, Philosophy, University of Toronto
• MA, Philosophy, Dalhousie University
• BA, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Simon Fraser University

Before (re)joining the Toronto department in 2018, David was a Lecturer and SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley.

David’s research focuses on questions of methodology, ontology, and the limits of expression in Kant and post-Kantian philosophy. He is interested in the way that this strand of philosophy challenges, and is challenged by, contemporary approaches and positions. On the one hand, this involves scholarship in the history of philosophy focusing on traditions that stem from Kant, including German Idealism and Romanticism, Neo-Kantianism, phenomenology, existentialism, and critical theory. On the other, it involves the clarification and development of philosophical methods and positions from these post-Kantian traditions so that we can better assess the extent to which they can sustain contemporary scrutiny.

David talks a bit about his work in this interview with Into the Coast.

For more information visit David’s personal website.

Articles (*refereed)

• Perception and Self-awareness in Merleau-Ponty and Martin. (2022). European Journal of Philosophy. (*)
• Nature at the Limits of Science and Phenomenology. (2020). Journal of Transcendental Philosophy. (*)
• Phenomenological Naturalism. (2017). International Journal of Philosophical Studies. (*)
• A Dilemma For Heideggerian Cognitive Science. (2017). Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. (*)

Essays in Collected Volumes

• Art, Authenticity, and Understanding. (2022). In Limits of Intelligibility: Issues from Kant and Wittgenstein, edited by Jens Pier. Routledge. (penultimate draft)
• Sensory Substitution and Non-Sensory Feelings. (2018). Co-authored with Diana Acosta Navas, Umut Baysan, and Kevin Connolly. In Sensory Substitution and Augmentation, edited by Fiona Macpherson. Oxford University Press.

Book Reviews

• Review of R. Matthew Shockey, The Bounds of Self: An Essay on Heidegger’s Being and Time. (2023). European Journal of Philosophy.
• Review of David Egan, The Pursuit of an Authentic Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the Everyday. (2020). British Journal for the History of Philosophy.