Steven Crowell is an American philosopher who has taught at Rice University

Rice University

William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

 since 1983 and is currently the department chair. Dr. Crowell earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 in 1981. His work has largely focused on twentieth century European philosophy, including phenomenology, existentialism

Existentialism

Existentialism is a term applied to a school of 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual...

, hermeneutics, and post-structuralism

Post-structuralism

Post-structuralism is a label formulated by American academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of French intellectuals who came to international prominence in the 1960s and '70s...

.

Works by Steven Crowell

Transcendental Heidegger (Stanford University Press, 2007)

Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning: Paths Toward Transcendental Phenomenology (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2001)

The Reach of Reflection: Issues for Phenomenology's Second Century, ed. Steven Crowell, Lester Embree, and Samuel Julian (Electron Press, 2001: www.electronpress.com)

The Prism of the Self: Philosophical Essays in Honor of Maurice Natanson, ed. Steven Galt Crowell (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995)

Nietzsche's View of Truth, International Studies in Philosophy XIX/2 (1987), 3-18.

Neo-Kantianism, Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.

External links

• http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~crowell