Curriculum Vitae
Thomas Owens
Department of Philosophy
email: thomas.owens@bc.edu
telephone: 617-662-3849
Ph.D Fordham
University 1952
M.A. Boston College
1948
A.B. Boston College
1947
1970-2004 Boston College
Professor
1966-1970 Boston College Associate
Professor
1957-1966 Boston College Assistant
Professor
Contemporary Phemonology
Existentialism
Early Works of Heidegger
Max Scheler and Edmund Husserl as Early Phenomenologists
Post-Nietzschean and Post-Modern Movements
Early Years:
Principles of Ethics
Introduction to Metaphysics
Philosophical Psychology
History of Modern Philosophy
The Transcendent in Recent Thought (for Theology Dept.)
Recent Years:
Contemporary Philosophy
The Issue of Intersubjectivity
The Phenomenology of Life and Love
Sartre’s Being and Nothingness
The Heidegger Project
Heidegger’s Being and Time
Graduate Seminars in Heidegger
Greek, Latin, French, German
Development and Funding of Perspectives Program
(1973-83)
Assistant to Project Director Joseph Flanagan in planning, writing
proposals and reporting on National Endowment for Humanities grants received
for upgrading Core Curriculum through establishment of the Perspectives Program.
Assistant Director of annual Perspectives Summer Workshops for faculty
retraining.
Assistant consultant for implementation of Perspectives Program at
other institutions.
Departmental Service
Executive Committee (1978-91)
Graduate Committee (1973-92)
Graduate Admissions Committee (1973-92)
Faculty Interviewing and Hiring Committee (1975-92)
Curriculum Committee (1970-92)
College of Arts and Science Service:
Chairman, Committee for Arts and Science College Reevaluation
Visitation (mid-1970s)
Chairman, A & S Dean’s Search Committee (1971-72)
Member, A & S College Promotion Committee (four 2 yr. terms)
Educational Policy Committee (1964-68)
University Service:
Academic V.P. Search Committee (1980)
Goals for the Nineties Executive Committee (1986-88)
Faculty Handbook Committee (many, many years)
University Research Council (198 1-85)
Gasson Chair Selection Committee (ten years)
Chairman, Faculty Welfare Committee (1978-82)
University Council on Liberal Education (six years)
Publications
Phenomenology and Intersubjectivity , Nijhoff. The
Hague, 1971.
“Max Scheler’s Emotive Ethics", Cross Currents , 1965.
“Absolute Aloneness as Man’s Existential Structure: A Study in Jean-Paul
Satre’ s Ontology.” The New Scholasticism , 1966.
“The Paradox of a Possible Social A Priori from the Transcendental
Perspective,” Proceedings of First Intemational Lonergan Conference , 1968.
Work in Progress
A Critical Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time
Boards of Editors
Cultural Hermeneutics, Philosophy and Social Criticism
Membership in Leamed Societies:
The American Catholic Philosophical Association
The American Philosophical Association
The Metaphysical Society of America
The Lonergan Institute
Papers at regional meetings:
“Max Scheler’s Phenomenology of Affective Consciousness,”
N.E.- A.C.P.A. 1972
“Heidegger’s Interpretation of Key Greek Categories,” N.E. - A.C.P.
A. 1973 “The Theme of Being in Heidegger and Lonergan,” 1974 Lonergan Institute
“Lonergan’ s Development of Horizon Category,” 1975 Lonergan Institute
“Basic Traits of Heideggerian Phenomenology,” N.E. - A.C.P.A.
“Presuppositionlessness as Phenomenological Goal,” N.E. - A.C.P.A.
1979