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Kevin Aho is a Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Communication
and Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA. He has published widely in the
areas of existentialism, applied hermeneutics and phenomenology, and phenomenological
psychopathology. He is the author of A Phenomenology of Functional Neurological Disorder:
Body, Self, World (2026), One Beat More: Existentialism and the Gift of Mortality
(2022), Existentialism: An Introduction (2014; 2nd ed. 2020), Contexts of Suffering:
A Heideggerian Approach to Psychopathology (2019), Heidegger’s Neglect of the Body
(2009), and Body Matters: A Phenomenology of Sickness, Illness, and Disease, with
James Aho (2008). He is also editor of Existential Medicine: Essays on Health and
Illness (2018) and co‑editor of The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism
(2024).
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Education
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- Ph.D. Philosophy, University of South Florida
- M.A. Philosophy, University of Utah
- B.A. Philosophy, Idaho State University
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Specialties
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- Existentialism
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy of Health and Illness
- Medical Humanities
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Courses Offered
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- PHP 3786 Existentialism
- PHM 3101 Philosophies of Liberation
- PHI 3223 Philosophy of Human Communication
- PHI 3456 Philosophy of Health and Illness
- PHI 4938 Capstone Seminar in Philosophy
- PHP 4930 Major Figures in Philosophy
- PHI 3930 Special Topics in Philosophy
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Publications
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Selected publications:
- A Phenomenology of Functional Neurological Disorder: Body, Self, World (London: Routledge,
2026)
- Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism, K. Aho, M. Altman, H. Pedersen
(eds.) (London: Routledge 2024)
- One Beat More: Existentialism and the Gift of Mortality (Cambridge, Polity, 2022)
- Existentialism: An Introduction, 2nd ed. (Polity, 2020)
- Contexts of Suffering: A Heideggerian Approach to Psychopathology (London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
- Existential Medicine: Essays on Health and Illness, K. Aho (ed.) (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)
- Heidegger’s Neglect of the Body (Albany, NY:SUNY Press, 2010)
- Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground, K. Aho and C. Guignon (eds.) (Cambridge, MA: Hackett, 2009)
- Body Matters: A Phenomenology of Sickness, Illness and Disease, with James Aho (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008)
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