Eshleman, Matthew C

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Professor, Philosophy and Religion , College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts

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eshlemanm@uncw.edu

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Selected Publications

Academic Article
- Liminal Manifestation and the Elusive Nature of Consciousness -- ProtoSociology, special volume on approaches to pre-reflective self-awareness. ProtoSociology. 36:264-296. 2019-01-01
- Could Sartre have been a Free Market Capitalist? -- ?”, response article to W. Irwin’s The Free Market Existentialist (New York: Blackwell, 2015). Sartre Studies International. 23:84-100. 2018-01-01
- A Critique of Freedom as a Value: Defending the Early Sartre against Moral Relativism. Sartre Studies International. 21:108-117. 2015-01-01
- A Philosophical Biography. Sartre Studies International. 22. 2015-01-01
- Is Violence Necessarily in Bad Faith?. Sartre Studies International. 21:60-73. 2015-01-01
- Sartre, Aronson, Atheism and Ethics: A Atypical Analysis. Sartre Studies International. 16. 2010-12-01
- Bad Faith is Necessarily Social. Sartre Studies International. 14. 2008-10-01
- The Misplaced Chapter on Bad Faith, or Reading Being and Nothingness in Reverse. Sartre Studies International. 14. 2008-10-01
- "The Cartesian Unconscious". History of Philosophy Quarterly. 24:297-315. 2007-07-01
- Sartre and Foucault on Ideal "Constraint". Satre Studies International. 10:56-76. 2004-01-01
- Two Dogmas of Sartrean Existentialism. Philosophy Today. 28:46:5. 2002-01-01
Book
- The Sartrean Mind. London: Routledge. 2020-01-01
Chapter
- On the Structure and Method of Being and Nothingness. London: Routledge. 143-157. 2020-01-01
- Preface,” The Sartrean Mind. London: Routledge. 1-7. 2020-01-01
- Sartre: A Biographical Sketch. London: Routledge. 8-21. 2020-01-01
- The Moral Tragedy of the Biological Imperative: What Nietzsche Can and Cannot Teach us about the Evolution of Morality -- Nature of Ethics – The Ethics of Nature. Lexington Books. 168. 2017-01-01
- A Sketch of Sartre’s Error Theory of Introspection -- Prereflective Consciousness: Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind. London: Routledge. 532. 2016-01-01
- "What is a Phenomenological Ontology?". Springer Verlag. 327-350. 2013-02-01
- Sartre on the Limits, Obstacles, and Constraints of Freedom. Cambridge Scholars Press. 2010-11-01
- “The Misplaced Chapter on Bad Faith, or Reading Being and Nothingness in Reverse”,. Zetabooks. 2010-11-01
- “What is It Like to be Free”. Routledge. 2010-09-01
- Beauvoir and Sartre on Freedom, Intersubjectivity, and Normative Justification. Indiana University Press. 2009-03-01
Document
- In Praise of Richmond’s New Translation of L'Être et le néant. Sartre Studies International. 2020-01-01
- We: Reviving Social Hope. Sartre Studies International. 2018-01-01
- Sartre: A Philosophical Biography. Sartre Studies International. 2016-01-01
- Review of Stephen Wang's Aquinas and Sartre: On Freedom, Personal Identity and the Possibility of Happiness. Sartre Studies International. 127-132. 2013-03-01
- Review of T. Storm Heter’s Sartre’s Ethics of Engagement. Sartre Studies International. 2009-10-01
- Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended It. University of Chicago Press. 2004-01-01

Presentations

Presentation
- Sartre’s Theology Proof Ontology II, Annual Meeting of North American Sartre Society 2022-11-01
- Sartre’s Theology Proof Ontology, Annual Meeting of the United Kingdom Sartre Society 2022-07-01
- Workshop on Sartre’s screenplay scrip Typhus, Roundtable workshop on Sartre’s screenplay scrip Typhus 2020-06-30
- Sarah Richmond’s New Translation of Being and Nothingness, Plenary Session, Diverse Lineages of Existentialism II 2019-06-01
- Beauvoir, Sartre and the Implications of Social Ontology for Politics: Could Sartre have been a Free Market Capitalist?, United Kingdom Sartre Society 2018-07-01
- Could Sartre have been a Free-Market Capitalist?, North American Sartre Society 2017-11-01
- The Religion of Existence: Asceticism in Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Sartre, North American Sartre Society 2016-11-01
- What You Think (About Sartre’s Approach to the Philosophy of Mind) is What You Get, UKSS, St. Peter’s College 2016-07-01
- Is Sartre a Hylomorphist?, Sartre Circle, Eastern APA 2016-01-01
- The Legacy of Adrian Mirvish: Sartre, Gestalt Psychology and Embodiment, North American Sartre Society 2015-11-01
- Is Sartre a Dualist?, Oxford University 2015-05-01
- Is Sartre a Dualist?, Bristol University 2015-05-01
- The Moral Tragedy of the Biological Imperative: What Nietzsche Can and Cannot Teach us about the Evolution of Morality,, The Nature of Ethics – The Ethics of Nature conference 2015-05-01
- A Sketch of Sartre’s Error Theory of Introspection, Thinking with Sartre Today: New Approaches to Sartre Studies? 2015-01-01
- Is Bad Faith Necessarily in Violence?,, Diverse Lineages of Existentialism, 2014-06-01
- Towards a Sartrean Error Theory of Introspection, Diverse Lineages of Existentialism 2014-06-01
- Sartre's Ontological Pluralism, American Philosophical Assocation (Sartre Circle) 2013-02-01
- An Analytic Argument for Atheism , North Carolina Religious Studies Association 2012-11-03
- Why wasn't Being and Nothingness Titled Matter and Consciousenss, North American Sartre Society 2012-11-01
- "What is it like to be a Brain?", Romancing the Brain 2012-02-21
- "What is a Phenomenological Ontology?", United Kingdom Sartre Studies Society (UKSSS) 2011-09-16
- A Phenomenology of Bare Acknowledgement: On Winking and Nodding , Canadian Congress 2011-06-01
- Sartre’s and Transcendental Arguments, North American Sartre Association 2011-04-01
- Sartre on the Principle of Identity, Central APA 2011-03-01
- “What Atheism Entails about Morality, Almost Nothing”, North American Sartre Society 2010-10-10
- What is It Like to be Free, Reading Sartre Conference 2010-09-01
- “You Can't Get Something for Nothing: Sartre's Transcendental Argument for Freedom”, Sartre Workshop 2009-07-16
- “Bad Faith is Necessarily Social” , Central APA 2009-02-01
- “Detmer and the Sartre Renaissance,” , Eastern APA 2008-12-01
- “On Michel Foucault, Skepticism, and the Grand Rise of Social Engineering”, , SPEP 2008-10-01
- “On Michel Foucault, Skepticism, and the Grand Rise of Social Engineering”, , EPTC 2008-06-01
- “Sartre on Human Reality: that which is not what it is and is what it is not”, NASS 2008-04-01
- Sartre on Freedom: A Novel Interpretation, North American Sartre Society 2006-10-01
- Simone de Beauvoir and the Problem of Pluralism, Society for Phenomenology and Existenialism 2006-10-01
- What is a Rose? The Sartrean Space in between Realism and Idealism, North American Sartre Society 2006-10-01
- Simone de Beauvoir on Justification, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences 2006-05-01
- The Misplaced Chapter on 'Bad Faith', Eastern APA, Sartre circle 2005-12-01
- The Cartesian Unconscious, EPTC/TPCE Program 2005-05-01