PhD, Stony Brook University (2014, Philosophy)
MA, University of Houston (2008, Philosophy)
BA, Sarah Lawrence College (2002)
Brian Irwin is the author of The Environmental Uncanny: A Phenomenology of the Loss of the World. His areas of specialization include Phenomenology, Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Environmental Philosophy. The overarching theme of his research is the philosophy of place, which he has explored in the contexts of landscape, language, architecture and urban design, and the nature of thought.
Existentialism
Philosophy of Art
Ethics and Information Technology
Judicial and Correctional Ethics
Book
The Environmental Uncanny: A Phenomenology of the Loss of the World (Bloomsbury)
Selected Publications
"Place and the Landscape Sublime," forthcoming book contribution.
“Heidegger’s Obliteration of Place: Reading ‘Language in the Poem,’” in Política común 14.
“Abstract City: The Phenomenological Basis for the Failures of Modernist Urban Design,” in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 6:1.
“Architecture as Participation in the World: Merleau-Ponty, Wölfflin, and the Bodily Experience of the Built Environment,” in Architecture Philosophy 4:1.
“An Enactivist Account of Abstract Words: Lessons from Merleau-Ponty,” in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
“Architecture and Embodiment: Place and Time in the New York Skyline,” in Archite(x)t issue V.
Book in progress: Place and Thought