Dr. Richard Polt

Honors Programs Professor and Chair
Philosophy Professor and Chair

Phone: 513-745-3274 Fax: 513-745-3065 ML#: 4443 Email: polt@xavier.edu Office Location: 238 Hinkle Hall     Degrees: Ph.D. (University of Chicago) First Year at XU: 1992 CV: Click to View

Areas of Expertise:
Heidegger, Greek Philosophy, Continental Philosophy

Other Information:

Richard Polt holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (1991). His main interests are the metaphysical and ethical problems of Greek and German philosophy. He has taught elective courses on a variety of topics, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, German idealism, existentialism, slavery, time, and Heidegger.

Selected publications:

Heidegger: An Introduction. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.

A Companion to Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics." Edited by Richard Polt and Gregory Fried. New Haven: Yale Unversity Press, 2001.

Heidegger's "Being and Time": Critical Essays. Edited by Richard Polt. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger's "Contributions to Philosophy." Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.