Justin Harmon

Visiting Assistant Professor

Faculty School of Arts, Sciences & Business Philosophy Department
jharmon@ndm.edu 410-532-5179 Caroline Hall (CHL) 516D
Justin Harmon
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Education

  • Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Kentucky, 2016. Dissertation: “The Normative Architecture of Reality: Towards an Object-Oriented Ethics”; committee: Theodore Schatzki (UK, chair), Ronald Bruzina (UK), Arnold Farr (UK), Anna Brzyski (UK).
  • M.A. Philosophy, University of Houston, 2009.
  • B.A. Philosophy, University of Houston, 2007 Magna cum laude.

Research

Interests

  • Continental philosophy (especially hermeneutics)
  • Aesthetics
  • Speculative realism
  • Posthumanism
  • History of philosophy

Publications

  1. 9. “Realist Hermeneutics: Pareyson’s Challenge to New Realism.” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 0(0) (2026).
  2. 8. “Distracted Aesthetics: Towards a Hermeneutics of Engagement with Distractive Works of Art.” Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, Vol. 7 No. 2 (2023): 36-51.
  3. 7. “Recollecting the Future: Matter, Form, and Spectral Violence in the Work of Pedro Reyes.” With Enrique Chacòn, Evental Aesthetics Vol. 11 (2023).
  4. 6. “Excessive Materialism and the Metaphysical Basis for an Object-Oriented Ethics.” Philosophy Today 63:1. doi: 10.5840/philtoday2019611259 (2019): 101-124.
  5. 5. “Interpretation from the Ground Up: Luigi Pareyson’s Hermeneutics of Inexhaustibility and its Implications for Moral Ontology.” Trópos: Journal of Hermeneutics and Philosophical Criticism, X:1 (2017): 60-90.
  6. 4. “The Sensuous as Source of Demand.” Essays in Philosophy, Vol. 13:2 (2012): 430-435.
  7. 3. “Dwelling in the House That Porn Built: A Phenomenological Critique of Pornography in the Age of Internet Pornography.” Social Philosophy Today, Vol. 28 (2012): 115-130.
  8. 2. “Adventures of Form: Italian Aesthetics from Neo-Idealism to Pareyson.” Annali d’Italianistica, Vol. 29 (2011): 363-380.
  9. 1. “What Is It Like to Be Mysterious, Alienated, and Wildly Rich Through Less Than Savory Means? Phenomenal Consciousness and Aesthetic Experience.” Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Vol. 10:2 (2009): web.