Thomas Sheehan (born 25 June 1941) is an American philosopher who is the current professor at the Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Philosophy,

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. He is known for his books on

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. His philosophical specialties are in

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, twentieth-century

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.Sheehan's CV
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Bibliography

* ''Heidegger's Being and Time''. A New Reading. New Heidegger Research. London (England) 2022. 304 p. * ''Making sense of Heidegger''. A paradigm shift. New Heidegger Research. London (England) 2015. XX, 350 p. * ''Facticity and Ereignis''. Interpreting Heidegger. Critical essays. Ed.

Daniel O. Dahlstrom Daniel Oscar Dahlstrom (born 1948) is an American philosopher and John R. Silber Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. Books *''Identity, Authenticity, and Humility''. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2017. *''The Heidegger Dict ...

. Cambridge (England) 2011. p. 42–68. * Martin Heidegger: ''Logic''. The question of truth. Translated by Thomas Sheehan. Studies in Continental Thought. Bloomington (Indianapolis) 2010. XII, 356 p. * ''Becoming Heidegger''. On the trail of his early occasional writings 1910–1927. Ed. Theodore Kisiel and Thomas Sheehan. Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Evanston (Illinois) 2007. LXXIV, 534 p. * ''Dasein''. A companion to Heidegger. Ed. Hubert L. Dreyfus, Mark A. Wrathall. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. 29. Malden (Massachusetts) 2005. p. 193–213. * General introduction. ''Husserl and Heidegger''. The making and unmaking of a relationship. Edmund Husserl: Collected works. Ed. by Thomas Sheehan and Richard E. Palmer. Vol. 6: Psychological and transcendental phenomenology and the confrontation with Heidegger (1927–1931). The Encyclopædia Britannica article, the Amsterdam lectures, „Phenomenology and Anthropology“ and Husserl's marginal notes in Being and Time and Kant and the problem of metaphysics. Ed. and transl. by Thomas Sheehan and Richard E. Palmer. Dordrecht (Netherlands) 1997. p. 1–32. * ''Heidegger’s Lehrjahre''. The Collegium Phaenomenologicum. The first ten years. Ed. John C. Sallis, Giuseppina Moneta, and Jacques Taminiaux. Phaenomenologica. Ed. Samuel Ijsseling. 105. Dordrecht (Netherlands) 1988. p. 77–137. * ''Karl Rahner''. The philosophical foundations. Series in Continental Thought 9. Athens (Ohio) 1987. 320 p. * ''The first coming''. How the Kingdom of God became Christianity. 1986. * ''Heidegger''. The man and the thinker. Ed. Thomas Sheehan. Chicago (Illinois) 1981. XX, 348 p. * Introduction. ''Heidegger, the project and the fulfillment''. Heidegger. The man and the thinker. Ed. Thomas Sheehan. Chicago (Illinois) 1981. p. VII–XX. * ''Getting to the topic''. The new edition of Wegmarken. Research in phenomenology. 7. 1977. p. 299–316. * ''Heidegger’s early years''. Fragments for a philosophical biography. Listening. 12. 1977. p. 3–20. Heidegger. The man and the thinker. Ed. Thomas Sheehan. Chicago (Illinois) 1981. p. 3–19. * ''Heidegger, Aristotle, and phenomenology''. Philosophy today. 19. 1975. p. 87–94. * ''Notes on a lovers’ quarrel''. Heidegger and Aquinas. Listening. 9. 1974. p. 137–143. * ''Heidegger''. From beingness to the time-being. Listening. 8. 1973. p. 17–31.

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Living people 1941 births 21st-century American philosophers 20th-century American philosophers Continental philosophers Daseinsanalysis Existentialists Phenomenologists Stanford University faculty University of California, Berkeley alumni Philosophy academics Loyola University Chicago faculty Fordham University alumni Heidegger scholars German–English translators Members of the Jesus Seminar {{US-philosopher-stub