Member Profiles

Brian Kemple

Lyceum Institute

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, University of St. Thomas, Houston (2016)

M.A., Philosophy, University of St. Thomas, Houston (2012)

B.A., English and Philosophy, Souther Catholic College (2010)

AMA Presentations

(2020) “The Tradition of Questioning.”

Publications

Books

(2019) The Intersection of Semiotics and Phenomenology: Pierce and Heidegger in Dialogue. De Gruyter.

(2017) Ens Primum Cognitum in Thomas Aquinas and the Tradition: The Philosophy of Being as First Known. Brill.

Academic Articles

(2023) “The Resolution of Interpretations: Thomism, Semiotics, and Phenomenology in Dialogue,” Revista Protugusea de Filosofia 79 (1-2): 659-92.

(2023) “Semiosis in the Machine: Lost Natures and Artificial Intelligence,” Filosofi(e)Semiotiche 10 (1): 24-39.

(2022) “Unconscious Lostness: Misdirected Intentionality in a Culture of Truth — A Reflection on John Deeley’s Contribution to a Theory of Culture,” Semiotics 2022: Intentionality and Semiotic Labyrinths: 27-35.

(2020) “Signs and Reality: An Advocation for Semiotic Realism,” Reality 1 (1).

(2018) “The Consolation of a Christian,” International Philosophical Quarterly 58 (4): 423-35.

(2017) “Elaboration of the Intellectual Sign,” American Journal of Semiotics 34 (1-2).

(2017) “Jacques Maritain and Ens ut Primum Cognitum,” in Engaging the Times: The Witness of Thomism, ed. Joshua Schulz. Catholic University of America Press.

(2015) “Evaluating the Metaphysical Realism of Etienne Gilson,” Studia Gilsoniana 4 (4): 363-80.

(2015) “Wojtyla: Nature, Person, and Teleology,” in Thomas Aquinas: Teacher of Humanity, eds. John Hittinger and Daniel C. Wagner. Cambridge Scholars.