JOHN V. GARNER

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1 JOHN V. GARNER Philosophy Program University of West Georgia 1601 Maple Street Carrollton, GA EDUCATION Ph.D. Philosophy Villanova University, Committee: Walter Brogan (Director); Helen Lang; Gabriel Rockhill M.A. Philosophy Villanova University, 2009 B.A. Religion Honors Program of the Florida State University, 2005 EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor Department of English & Philosophy, University of West Georgia, 2016-present Lecturer Department of English & Philosophy, University of West Georgia, Adjunct Instructor Villanova, Drexel, Immaculata, Rowan, and Neumann Universities, Teaching Assistant Lycée Pierre Forest, Maubeuge, France, TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS Areas of Specialization Areas of Competency Research Languages Ancient Philosophy; Continental Philosophy Philosophy of Religion; Ethics; German Idealism French; German; Ancient Greek PUBLICATIONS Book The Emerging Good in Plato s Philebus, Northwestern University Press, 2017 Articles, Reference Works, and Conference Proceedings Thinking Beyond Identity: Numbers and the Identity of Indiscernibles in Plato and Proclus, Idealistic Studies (forthcoming) Gadamer and the Lessons of Arithmetic in Plato s Hippias Major, Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy, 9 (1), 2017 Pure Pleasure as a Paradigm of Good Becoming in Plato s Philebus, Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter, 14 (1), 2013 Cornelius Castoriadis, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2011; revised 2015 Book Reviews Dmitri Nikulin: The Concept of History: How Ideas are Constituted, Transmitted and Interpreted, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 08.48, 2017

2 Garner 2 David Wolfsdorf: Pleasure in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy 34 (2), 2014 Luc Brisson and Francesco Fronterotta, ed.: Lire Platon, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2014 Suzi Adams: Castoriadis Ontology: Being and Creation, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 44 (2), 2013 Giorgio Agamben: The Signature of All Things: On Method, Continental Philosophy Review 43 (4), 2011 Book Translation Castoriadis, Cornelius. Postscript on Insignificance: Dialogues with Cornelius Castoriadis. Ed. and trans. with Gabriel Rockhill. New York: Continuum Press, 2011 Article or Chapter Translations Rockhill, Gabriel. Are We Really Living in a Technological Era? in Counter-History of the Present: Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017 Rockhill, Gabriel. What Is the Use of Democracy? The Urgency of an Inappropriate Question in Counter-History of the Present: Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017 Agamben, Giorgio. For an Ethics of the Cinema in Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image. Ed. Asbjorn Gronstad and Henrik Gustafsson. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2014 [co-translated with Colin Williamson] Agamben, Giorgio. Cinema and History: On Jean-Luc Godard in Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image. Ed. Asbjorn Gronstad and Henrik Gustafsson. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2014 [co-translated with Colin Williamson] Wallerstein, Immanuel. The Present Crest of a Longue Durée in The Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique. Ed. Gabriel Rockhill and Alfredo Gomez-Müller. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011 Gomez-Müller, Alfredo and Gabriel Rockhill. Critical Theory Today: Politics, Ethics, Culture in The Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique. Ed. Gabriel Rockhill and Alfredo Gomez-Müller. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011 Castoriadis, Cornelius. No God, No Caesar, No Tribune in Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (1), 2010 [group translation] Heinich, Nathalie. The Sociology of Vocational Prizes: Recognition as Esteem in Journal for Theory, Culture and Society 26 (5), 2009 [group translation] PRESENTATIONS Conference Presentations Proclus and Plato on the Source of Precision in the Sciences, 12 th London Ancient Science Conference, London, England, February 2018 Number Forms and the Identity of Indiscernibles in Plato and Proclus, 11 th London Ancient Science Conference, London, England, February 2017

3 Garner 3 Non-realist Goods in Plato s Realist Moral Philosophy, International Plato Society Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 2015 Pure Pleasure as a Paradigm of Good Becoming in Plato s Philebus, Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy at the APA, Baltimore, MD, December 2013 Pleasure as an Emergent Cause in Plato s Philebus, University of Pennsylvania Ancient Philosophy Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, May 2013 The Intrinsic Goodness of Pure Pleasure, Pennsylvania Circle of Ancient Philosophy Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2013 The Lesson of the Arithmetical Example: Two Readings of Plato s Hippias Major 299ff, Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Conference, New York, NY, October 2012 Plato s Academy and Dialogues as Democratic Institutions of Self-Critique, Radical Philosophy Association Conference, Buffalo, NY, October 2012 Refutation by Possibility: H.-G. Gadamer's Interpretation of the Hippias Major, Comparative and Continental Philosophy Conference, San Diego, CA, May 2012 Hegel and Luther: The Dialectic of Master and Slave, Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 2007 Conference Commentary Response to Pieter d Hoine, Proclus on Self Predication, Ancient Philosophy Society, Atlanta, GA, April 2018 Response to Evan Strevell, Remembering as Assimilation in Aristotle s De Memoria, Pennsylvania Circle of Ancient Philosophy Conference, Villanova, PA, March 2014 Response to John Wolfe, Psuchê, Arêtê, Phusis, Villanova Annual Conference in Philosophy, Villanova, PA, April 2010 Response to Philip Armstrong, Jean-Luc Nancy s Reticulated Ontology, Villanova Annual Conference in Philosophy, Villanova, PA, April 2009 Response to Alfred Frankowski, Unearthing the Problem of Temporality and Intersubjectivity as the Ground of Husserl s Phenomenology, Villanova Annual Conference in Philosophy, Villanova, PA, March 2008 Other Appearances Rethinking Work, with Janet Donohoe, The Other Night School at Serenbe, Palmetto, GA, May 3, 2017 Rethinking Work, with Janet Donohoe, The Other Night School at UWG Newnan, Newnan, GA, February 28, 2017 Rethinking the Body, with Janet Donohoe, The Other Night School at UWG Newnan, Newnan, GA, February 21, 2017 Early Career Research Spotlight: John Garner, ed. Nathan Eckstrand, Blog of the APA, Newark, DE, September 23, 2016 Plato s Hatred of Democracy? West Georgia Philosophical Society, Carrollton, GA, March 2016

4 Garner 4 GRANTS AND AWARDS Student Research Assistant Program Grant, Student Work Advisory Committee, University of West Georgia, 2017 Philosophy of the Social Venture Course Design Grant Beneficiary, Department of Missions Effectiveness, Villanova University, 2014 James Harvey Teaching Award, Department of Philosophy, Villanova University, 2013 John G. Tich Award for Excellence in Research, Department of Philosophy, Villanova University, 2012 Summer Research Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, Villanova University, 2012 Graduate School Travel Grants, School of Arts and Sciences, Villanova University, , numerous times Graduate Fellowship, Department of Philosophy, Villanova University, TEACHING EXPERIENCE (SELECTION) Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Critical Thinking Ethics Existentialism German Idealism Introduction to Philosophy Modern Philosophy Philosophy of Religion Senior Seminar: Violence PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (SELECTION) Book Press/Journal Referee SUNY Press, 2017 Radical Philosophy Review, 2015 Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2017 Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2011 Journal of Value Inquiry, 2017 Epoché, Ancient Philosophy, 2015 Workshop Participant 1 st -2 nd Georgia Ancient Philosophy Seminar (co-organizer; 2017-present) 9 th Institute for the History of Philosophy Summer Workshop (Atlanta, 2017) 13 th Toronto Summer Seminar in Philosophy (Toronto, 2016) Ethics Faculty Development Workshops (Villanova, , multiple times) Catholic Social Teaching Summer Workshop (Villanova, 2013) Workshop on Democracy and Politics (Villanova, 2013) Atelier de Théorie Critique (Paris, 2008) [in French] ACADEMIC REFERENCES Dr. Walter Brogan, Full Professor of Philosophy Dr. Martin Kavka, Full Professor of Religion Department of Philosophy, Villanova University 800 Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA walter.brogan@villanova.edu; Department of Religion, Florida State University 115 Dodd Hall, Tallahassee, FL mkavka@fsu.edu;

5 Garner 5 Dr. Gabriel Rockhill, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of C.T.W. Paris Dr. John Russon, Full Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy, Villanova University 800 Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA gabriel.rockhill@villanova.edu; Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph 50 Stone Rd E, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada jrusson@uoguelph.ca;