Matthew Coate
Biography
Matthew Coate is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at 17cÍøÒ³°æ, a position he officially began in the Fall 2024 semester. He earned a BA in Philosophy and Art History from 17cÍøÒ³°æ and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stony Brook University. Previously, Dr. Coate taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor at KSU in the 2023-2024 school year and as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Old Dominion University in 2022-2023.
Dr. Coate’s research, which is primarily concerned with the human condition and our basic moral vocation, is largely carried out using the phenomenological method of analysis and sits in the intersection of social/political philosophy, on the one hand, and philosophy of the person and philosophical psychology, on the other. His focus also intersects with themes in modern and contemporary aesthetics, and as a pluralistic thinker, he draws from a great many disciplines and traditions, including nonwestern (primarily East Asian) thought.
A list of Dr. Coate's publications can be found further down in this page.
Education
17cÍøÒ³°æ, B.A. summa cum laude with University Honors, Philosophy (2008)
17cÍøÒ³°æ, B.A. summa cum laude with University Honors, Art History (2008)
Publications
- Coate, Matthew. "On 'the Butchery that Every Day Claims Our "Consecrated’ Mouths:"' a Levinasian Critique of Posthumanism’s Carnivorous Implications." In Phenomenology & Posthumanism(s), edited by Allen Porter. Cham: Springer Nature (in press).
- Coate, Matthew, "'Existence Without Existents': On Levinas’s Concerns 17cÍøÒ³°æ Beauty as an Expression of the Sacred and Its Complex Relationship with the Holy." Religions, 17 (2026): 1-22.
- Coate, Matthew. “On Heidegger’s Conception of Emotion, Which Is to Say, Husserl’s Conception of Time: an Analysis of Befindlichkeit and Temporality.†Continental Philosophy Review, 56 (2023): 549–576.
- Coate, Matthew. “Angst, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: Reading Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol as an Existentialist Work.†Dickens Quarterly 39, No. 4 (2022): 438-460.
- Coate, Matthew. “Face-to-Face, but Behind a Veil of Ignorance: a Levinasian Analysis of Rawls’s Political Conception.†Journal of Speculative Philosophy 34, No. 3 (2020): 441-453.
- Coate, Matthew. “‘Nothing but Nonsense:’ a Kantian account of ugliness.†British Journal of Aesthetics 58, No. 1 (2018): 51–70.
- Coate, Matthew. “Time, or the Mediation of the Now: On Dan Zahavi's ‘Irrelational’ Account of Temporality.†Continental Philosophy Review 51, No. 4 (2018): 565-591.
- Coate, Matthew. “‘Yes, the Whole Approach is Questionable, Yes, False:’ Phenomenology and the New Realism.†Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 32, No. 3 (2018): 450-461.
- Coate, Matthew. “Nachträglichkeit, or a Certain Blindness of the ‘Now.’†Theoria and Praxis 5, No. 1 (2017): 65-94.
- Coate, Matthew. “Absolute Otherness and the Taste of Powdered Green Tea.†In Levinas and Asian Thought, edited by Leah Kalmanson, Frank Garrett, and Sarah Mattice, 181-194. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2013.