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Matthew Coate, PhD

Matthew Coate

Philosophy Department
Assistant Professor
Campus:
Kent
Office Location:
320E
Contact Information
Email:
mcoate@kent.edu
Phone:
330-672-3965

Biography

Matthew Coate is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Kent State University, a position he officially began in the Fall 2024 semester. He earned a BA in Philosophy and Art History from Kent State and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stony Brook University. Previously, Dr. Coate taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor at KSU in the 2023-2024 school year and as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Old Dominion University in 2022-2023.

Dr. Coate’s research, which is primarily concerned with the human condition and our basic moral vocation, is largely carried out using the phenomenological method of analysis and sits in the intersection of social/political philosophy, on the one hand, and philosophy of the person and philosophical psychology, on the other. His focus also intersects with themes in modern and contemporary aesthetics, and as a pluralistic thinker, he draws from a great many disciplines and traditions, including nonwestern (primarily East Asian) thought.

A list of Dr. Coate's publications can be found further down in this page.
 

Education

Stony Brook University, PhD, Philosophy (2015)
Kent State University, B.A. summa cum laude with University Honors, Philosophy (2008)
Kent State University, B.A. summa cum laude with University Honors, Art History (2008)

Publications

  • Coate, Matthew. “On Heidegger’s Conception of Emotion, Which Is to Say, Husserl’s Conception of Time: an Analysis of Befindlichkeit and Temporality.” Continental Philosophy Review (2023, in press).
  • Coate, Matthew. “Angst, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: Reading Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol as an Existentialist Work.” Dickens Quarterly 39, No. 4 (2022): 438-460.
  • Coate, Matthew. “Face-to-Face, but Behind a Veil of Ignorance: a Levinasian Analysis of Rawls’s Political Conception.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 34, No. 3 (2020): 441-453.
  • Coate, Matthew. “‘Nothing but Nonsense:’ a Kantian account of ugliness.” British Journal of Aesthetics 58, No. 1 (2018): 51–70.
  • Coate, Matthew. “Time, or the Mediation of the Now: On Dan Zahavi's ‘Irrelational’ Account of Temporality.” Continental Philosophy Review 51, No. 4 (2018): 565-591.
  • Coate, Matthew. “‘Yes, the Whole Approach is Questionable, Yes, False:’ Phenomenology and the New Realism.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 32, No. 3 (2018): 450-461.
  • Coate, Matthew. “Nachträglichkeit, or a Certain Blindness of the ‘Now.’” Theoria and Praxis 5, No. 1 (2017): 65-94.
  • Coate, Matthew. “Absolute Otherness and the Taste of Powdered Green Tea.” In Levinas and Asian Thought, edited by Leah Kalmanson, Frank Garrett, and Sarah Mattice, 181-194. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2013.
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