Chad Engelland, PhD
Professor, Philosophy
Chad Engelland seeks to clarify central and enduring questions concerning being,
language, and God. In doing so, he finds it invaluable to engage classic texts in
the history of philosophy while employing contemporary methods of phenomenology and
linguistic analysis. At the center of his research are two concepts. The first is 'ostension,' which names the act of showing something to others in order
to give them the opportunity to discover the intelligibility of the thing in question.
The concept brings out the interpersonal character of our bodies, speech, and experience.
He developed this in general in (MIT) before applying it to God in Divine Hiddenness: God the Creator and Phenomenology (Cambridge, forthcoming). The second is 'transcendence,' which names the peculiar human openness to the truth
of things, an openness that allows us to go beyond our environmental niche in order
to countenance and to speak about the very essences of all the things of the world.
The concept makes manifest our human difference and our wonderment that reaches out
to comprehend the whole. See and Before joining 吃瓜网 in 2014, he had a nine-year joint appointment in philosophy at John
Carroll University and Borromeo College Seminary in Cleveland. He has served the department as a graduate director (2016-2020), chair (2019-2021),
and Rome professor (2021-2023). He is the recipient of two university teaching awards, a 2018 Haggerty Teaching Excellence
Award and the 2019 Michael A. Haggar Fellow. Something of his joy for teaching comes across in his writings for a more popular
audience, which include and (MIT), which has been translated into Chinese and Arabic.
He has also published popular articles on philosophy and other topics in , , , , and . He has appeared on Australian public radio, Alabama Catholic radio, New Books in
Philosophy, and Matt Fradd's Pints with Aquinas.
- PhD, Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, 2006
- M.A., Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, 2002
- B.A., Philosophy, Xavier University, 1999
Undergraduate
- Philosophy and the Ethical Life
- Philosophy of the Human Person
- Philosophy of Being
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophy of God
- Continental Tradition
- Thought of Thomas Aquinas
- Augustine鈥檚 Confessions
Graduate
- Phenomenological Tradition
- Phenomenological Thomism
- Phenomenology of Language
- Heidegger鈥檚 Being and Time
- Christianity & Postmodernism
- Philosophy of God
Books
Divine Hiddenness: God the Creator and Phenomenology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026.
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2020.
editor. New York: Routledge, 2020.
. New York: Routledge, 2017.
. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2016.
. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2014.
Edited Books
Chad Engelland, editor. . New York: Routledge, 2020.
Robert E. Wood. The Heart. Edited with an Introduction by Chad Engelland. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2026.
Scott Roniger and Chad Engelland, editors. Collected Essays of Robert Sokolowski. Three volumes. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2026, 2027, and 2028.
Articles
鈥淭he Paradox of the Person as a Way to God.鈥� Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers, forthcoming.
鈥淎 percep莽茫o de outras mentes animadas segundo Agostinho.鈥� (Portuguese translation by Frederico Bonaldo). Atlantika: Revista de Filosofia do Centro Atl芒ntico de Pesquisa em Humanidades 2 (2024): 72-95.
(with Jonathan J. Sanford) New Blackfriars 105 (2024): 180-199.
Journal of the History of Philosophy 61 (2023): 373-396.
Review of Metaphysics 87 (2023): 507-540.
New Blackfriars 103, issue 1108 (2022): 795-808.
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 95 (2021): 481-503.
Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 94 (2020): 73-89.
In Language and Phenomenology, ed. Chad Engelland, 273-295. London: Routledge Press, 2020.
In Transcending Reason: Heidegger鈥檚 Transformation of Phenomenology, ed. Matt Burch and Irene McMullin, 171-186. New Heidegger Research. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020.
Think 51 (Spring 2019): 63-75.
The Review of Metaphysics 71 (2018): 723-53.
Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 91 (2017): 159-170.
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 90 (2016): 25-48.
Journal of the American Philosophical Association 1 (2015): 175-193.
The Thomist 79 (2015): 615-639.
Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 89 (2015):245-261.
In Social Epistemology and Technology, ed. Frank Scalambrino, 167-176. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015.
Continental Philosophy Review 45 (2012): 77-100.
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 41 (2010): 150-169.
International Philosophical Quarterly 50 (2010): 447-460.
Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78 (2004): 263-275.
Popular
鈥淗ybrid humans: The relevance of Thomas Aquinas today.鈥� Sunday edition, March 10, 2024.
鈥淭he mystery of Thomas Aquinas: Why did he leave his 鈥楽umma鈥� unfinished?鈥� , the national Jesuit monthly, December, 2023, issue.
鈥淏enedict XVI and Nietzsche: A Pope鈥檚 Unlikely Dialogue with an Atheist Philosophy,鈥� , the national Jesuit monthly, March 6, 2023.
鈥淧ope Benedict XVI Wrote about the Death of God,鈥� , January 15, 2023.
鈥淯nlike AI Chatbots, Students Are Insatiably Hungry to Learn,鈥� , December 21, 2022.
鈥淎lexa, Make Me Happy,鈥� , June 13, 2021.
鈥淧henomenology at the Beach,鈥� , June/July 2021.
鈥淎mo, Ergo Cogito: A Philosopher on Love as a Way of Seeing,鈥� , May 2021.
鈥淐olleges are vulnerable to COVID-19 spread because they are set up to spread something else 鈥� knowledge,鈥� , July 24, 2020.
鈥淪ocial Distancing and the Reality of Bodily Presence,鈥� , April 15, 2020.
鈥淭he Distinctive Look of 吃瓜网,鈥� July 2, 2019.
鈥淭he Church Must Reclaim the Cardinal Virtues,鈥� September 13, 2018.
(with Chris Mirus) 鈥淭he Power of Perceptive Thinking,鈥� , June 19, 2018.
鈥淲hat Jesus gets鈥攁nd scientists might miss鈥攁bout the meaning of the mouth,鈥� , the national Jesuit monthly, January 25, 2018.
鈥淩eclaiming the Truth that God Is Spirit,鈥� , January 23, 2018.
鈥淭he Ultimate Jeopardy Question,鈥� , June 21, 2016. http://www.strangenotions.com/
(with Dr. Brian Engelland), 鈥淗ow Can Virtue Combat Consumerism?鈥� , December 7, 2015.