H. Peter Steeves

H. Peter Steeves is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Emeritus Director of the Humanities Center at DePaul University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Indiana University, and he specializes in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophy of science. Steeves is the author of several books, including: "Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry" (Kluwer, 1998); "The Things Themselves: Phenomenology and the Return to the Everyday" (SUNY Press, 2006); "Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding: Phenomenology and the Life of Art" (2017); "Being and Showtime" (Sawbuck Press, 2021); "Up From Under the Rulers: The Anarchic Phenomenological Communitarian Manifesto" (RPI, 2024); and is the editor of, and contributor to, "Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology, and Animal Life" (SUNY Press, 1999) and "Political Animal(s): By Nature and Culture" (Mosaic, 2021). He has published more than 140 book chapters and journal articles, and has presented more than 220 public and academic professional lectures. Steeves has also been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and an NEH grant. He was chosen by Rate My Professor as one of the “Top 15 Best Professors in the United States.” His current research focuses primarily on cosmology and astrobiology—on the origin events of both the cosmos and life—and on APC (anarchic phenomenological communitarianism). For more information on his latest work, visit beingandshowtimeDOTcom.

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