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Dr. Jay Lampert specializes in Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy, Nineteenth Century Continental Philosophy, and Metaphysics. His academic journey commenced with teaching positions at the University of Regina (Campion College) and Dickenson College, each for a year, followed by six years at Howard University. Subsequently, he spent 19 years at the University of Guelph before joining Duquesne University in 2014. Since 2007, Dr. Lampert has maintained significant connections with Duquesne.

With a prolific publication record, Dr. Lampert has authored three books on Husserl, Deleuze, and Philosophy of Time, and edited another. His scholarly contributions encompass numerous articles and book chapters, spanning a wide array of philosophers including Hegel, Fichte, Heidegger, Bergson, Gadamer, Derrida, Marion, and Badiou. His research primarily delves into the philosophy of time, often intersecting with various philosophical traditions, particularly Continental Philosophy.

Currently, Dr. Lampert is immersed in crafting a new book titled "Decisions and Futures." Beyond his primary areas of expertise, he harbors a keen interest in African and Ancient Egyptian philosophies. He also explores philosophical dimensions in film, especially special effects editing, and music, particularly serial and spectral music. An avid player of the game Go, Dr. Lampert extols its virtues to fellow philosophers. With a commitment to teaching at all levels, he has mentored numerous outstanding graduate students throughout his career.

Education

  • Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Toronto, 1987

 

School

Primary areas of research and teaching:

  • Dialectics, Phenomenology, Philosophies of Difference and Multiplicity
  • Continental Philosophy: Hegel, Husserl, Deleuze, and everything before, between, beside, and after
  • Philosophy of Time

 

Other interests:

  • Philosophy of Film
  • African Philosophy
  • The game of Go (rank: AGA 3-Dan)
  • Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
  • Deleuze, Cinema (2 volumes)
  • Hegel, Science of Logic
  • Derrida, Of Grammatology
  • Badiou, Being and Event
  • Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason
  • Sartre, Notebooks for an Ethics
  • Adorno, Negative Dialectics
  • Gadamer, Truth and Method
  • Semiotics (Kristeva, Barthes, Eco)

Books:

   Philosophy of the Short Term. London: Bloomsbury Publishers, 2024.

   The Many Futures of a Decision. London: Bloomsbury Publishers, 2018.

   Simultaneity and Delay. London: Continuum Books (Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy), 2012.

Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of History. London: Continuum Books (Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy), 2006. 

   Synthesis and Backward Reference in Husserl's Logical Investigations. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Phaenomenologica Series, 1995. 

Sample articles:

   “Boundas: The Series”.  (A paper on Gilles Deleuze’s concept of “series”, collected in

   “A Tribute to Constantin V. Boundas”). Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, 29/1, 2025, 201-215.

   “Deleuze and AlphaGo”. Deleuze and Guattari Studies, 17/1, 2023, 27-54.

“Short Term Ideas and Temporal Segmentation”.  In Spanish translation: “Ideas de corto plazo y segmentación temporal”

Translated by Juan Rocchi and Iván Paz.

                        Las Potencias del Continuo: Deleuze: Ontología Práctica, Volume 3.

                        Edited by Sebastián Amarilla, Giorgina Bertazzo, and Gonzalo Santaya.

                        Buenos Aires: RAGIF Ediciones, 2022, 201-224.

   “Problems with the Future: Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition”. Deleuze and Guattari Studies 13.3, 2019, pp. 416-434.

   “Deleuze’s “Power of Decision”, Kant’s =X, and Husserl’s Noema”.

In At the Edges of Thought: Deleuze and Post-Kantian Thought, ed. Craig Lundy and Daniela Voss.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015, pp. 272-292.

   “On Hegel’s Thesis that Religion and Philosophy have the Same Content but Different Form”.

                        In Irreconcilable Differences, a collection on Philosophy and Theology, ed. Jason

Robinson and David Peck.

                        Oregon: Pickwick Publications/Wipf and Stick Publishing, 2015, pp. 88-104.

   “Visual Effects and Phenomenology of Perceptual Control”

                        In Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, 6, 2014, pp 30-51.

                        http://cjpmi.ifilnova.pt/6-contents

   “Do ‘Sheets of Past’ Exist?  Deleuze on Time and Cinema… and Radio”

                        In Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze/Guattari and the Arts, ed. Antonio

                        Calcagno, James Vernon, and Steve G. Lofts.

                        Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2014, pp. 33-54.

   “Limit, Ground, Judgement… Syllogism: Hegel, Deleuze, Hegel, and Deleuze”.

In Hegel and Deleuze, ed. James Vernon and Karen Houle.  Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2013, pp. 183-203.

“Do the Arguments for Saturated Phenomena prove that they are Possible or Necessary?

Time to Decide”.

In Phenomenology and the Theological Turn, Twenty-seventh Annual Symposium (2009) of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, pp. 24-47, 2012.  

   “Violent and Non-violent Teleology in Hegel’s Logic”.

In Person, Being, and History: Essays in Honor of Kenneth L. Schmitz, ed. Michael Baur and Robert E. Wood.  Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2011, pp. 140-155.

    “Theory of Delay in Balibar, Freud and Deleuze: Retard, Nachträglichkeit, Décalage”.

In Deleuze and History, ed. Jeffrey A. Bell and Claire Colebrook.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009, pp. 72-91.