Faculty Research Highlights (2020-2025)
Faculty in the FGCU Philosophy Program are highly engaged teacher-scholars. In addition to teaching and mentoring students, they are engaged in research on a variety of important contemporary topics and on figures and traditions from the history of philosophy. Below is a list of works published by FGCU faculty in recent years.
Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
Culbertson, Carolyn. “Shared Understanding Before Semantic Agreement: Gadamer on the Hidden Ground of Linguistic Community.” Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 56 (2025).
Aho, Kevin. “Critical Phenomenology and Functional Neurological Disorder: A Commentary on Carel and Kidd’s Conception of Vulnerabilisation.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, Vol. 14 (2025).
Aho, Kevin and Costello, Matthew C. “The Paradoxical Nature of Adult Older Embodiment.” Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy (2025).
Aho, Kevin and Leder, Drew. “Transformational Healing: The Phenomenology of Fulfillment in the Face of Adversity.” Medical Humanities, Vol. 51 (2025).
Culbertson, Carolyn. Gadamer and the Social Turn in Epistemology. (State University of New York Press, 2024).
Culbertson, Carolyn. “Fūdosei and the Hermeneutics of Nature.” Research in Phenomenology Vol. 54, no. 1 (2024).
Culbertson, Carolyn. “The Historical Situation of Thought as a Hermeneutic Principle.” In Truth and Method: A Polyphonic Commentary, edited by Cynthia Nielsen and Greg Lynch (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2022).
Aho, Kevin. “The Uncanny in the Time of Pandemics: Heideggerean Reflections on the Coronavirus.” Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, Vol. 10 (2020).
Culbertson, Carolyn. “Gadamer’s Concept of Language.” In The Gadamerian Mind, edited by Theodore George and Gert-Jan van der Heiden (Routledge, 2021).
Culbertson, Carolyn. “Play in Conversation: The Cognitive Import of Gadamer’s Theory of Play.” In Language and Phenomenology, edited by Chad Engelland (Routledge, 2020).
Metaphysics and Epistemology
Culbertson, Carolyn. “Why Natural Language Processing is Not Reading: Two Philosophical Distinctions and Their Educational Import.” Journal of Applied Hermeneutics Vol. 2025 (2025).
Hentrup, Miles. “Hegel’s Theory of Rational Proof.” Hegel Bulletin (2025).
Culbertson, Carolyn. Gadamer and the Social Turn in Epistemology. State University of New York Press, 2024.
Hentrup, Miles. “Robb Dunphy, Hegel and the Problem of Beginning: Scepticism and Presuppositionlessness.” Hegel Bulletin, Vol. 45 (2024).
Culbertson, Carolyn. “Testimonial Justice Beyond Belief: Gert-Jan Van der Heiden’s Philosophy of Testimony.” Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 27 (2023).
Hentrup, Miles. “Skepticism and Negativity in Hegel’s Philosophy.” Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol. 39 (2023).
Frim, Landon. “The Prequel vs. Free Will.” In Better Call Saul and Philosophy, edited by Joshua Heter and Brent Coppenger (Carus Books, 2022).
Ethics and Social-Political Philosophy
Portella, Eli. “Feminism Beyond Welfare: Care, Socialization, and the Politics of the State.” Feminist Theory, Vol. 26 (2024).
Portella, Eli and Busk, Larry Alan. “The Contradiction Between Use-Value and Exchange-Value: Ecology, Imperialism, and the Telos of Production.” Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis, Vol. 3 (2024).
Frim, Landon. “The Godfather, the Son, and World Spirit.” In The Godfather and Philosophy, edited by Joshua Heter and Richard Green (Carus Books, 2023).
Portella, Eli and Busk, Larry Alan. “The Formal and Real Subsumption of Gender Relations: Challenging the Transhistorical Status of ‘Patriarchy.’” Historical Materialism, Vol. 32 (2023).
Frim, Landon and Fluss, Harrison. Prometheus and Gaia: Technology, Ecology, and Anti-Humanism. (Anthem Press, 2022).
Portella, Eli. “The Weapon of Theory Reconsidered: Anti-Colonial Thought and the Post-Cold War Imaginary.” Radical Philosophy Review, Vol. 25 (2022).
Frim, Landon. “Should the State Teach Ethics?: A Schematism” Symposion, Vol. 9 (2022).
Hentrup, Miles. “Comments on Knowledge and Ideology: The Epistemology of Social and Political Critique.” Florida Philosophical Review, Vol. 19 (2020).
History of Philosophy
Hentrup, Miles. “Hegel’s Theory of Rational Proof.” Hegel Bulletin (2025).
Hentrup, Miles. “Robb Dunphy, Hegel and the Problem of Beginning: Scepticism and Presuppositionlessness.” Hegel Bulletin, Vol. 45 (2024).
Hentrup, Miles. “Skepticism and Negativity in Hegel’s Philosophy.” Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol. 39 (2023).
Medical Humanities and Philosophical Psychiatry
Aho, Kevin. “Critical Phenomenology and Functional Neurological Disorder: A Commentary on Carel and Kidd’s Conception of Vulnerabilisation.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, Vol. 14 (2025).
Aho, Kevin and Costello, Matthew C. “The Paradoxical Nature of Adult Older Embodiment.” Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy (2025).
Aho, Kevin and Leder, Drew. “Transformational Healing: The Phenomenology of Fulfillment in the Face of Adversity.” Medical Humanities, Vol. 51 (2025).
Aho, Kevin. The Routledge Handbook of Existentialism, co-edited with Megan Altman and Hans Pedersen (2024).
Aho, Kevin. “Existentialism.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2023).
Aho, Kevin. One Beat More: Existentialism and the Gift of Mortality (Polity, 2022).
Aho, Kevin. “‘We’re protecting them to death’: A Heideggerian Interpretation of Loneliness Among Older Adults in Long-term Care Facilities During COVID-19.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (2022).
Aho, Kevin. “The Uncanny in the Time of Pandemics: Heideggerean Reflections on the Coronavirus.” Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, Vol. 10 (2020).
Aho, Kevin. “The Contraction of Time and Existential Awakening: A Phenomenology of Authentic Aging.” In The Evening of Life: The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well, edited by J. Davis & P. Scherz (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020).
