Tobias Keiling

Associate Professor

Co-Director
Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European PhilosophyLink opens in a new window

Convenor
MA in Continental PhilosophyLink opens in a new window

Department of Philosophy

Coventry CV4 7A, UK

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Research Interests

At the centre of my research is "continental" philosophy, particularly Heidegger, Husserl, and Gadamer. I study these authors from two angles. In a historical perspective, I want to understand how 20^th century philosophy develops, criticizes, and adapts earlier European philosophy. With a view to issues in metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics, I ask what the tradition I work on can contribute to ongoing debates.

Career

2022- Warwick Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy

2019-2022 Bonn Lecturer, Institut für Philosophie

2013-2016 Freiburg Post-Doc, Philosophisches Seminar/SFB 1015

Degrees

2013 Dr. Phil. University of Freiburg, Germany

2013 PhD. Boston College, USA

2009 Magister Artium University of Freiburg (Philosophy, Public Law, Sociology)

Select Publications and Projects

NEW Monograph on Gadamer's hermeneutics

Edited volume

Twelve chapters on Heidegger's magnum opus by leading scholars. Includes my chapter "Heidegger on the Failure of Being and TimeLink opens in a new window".

Edited and introduced

A brilliant essay by Czech phenomenologist Jan Patočka on how we live on in the life of others. 2nd edition 2026. Most recently reviewed in FAZLink opens in a new window.

Heideggerswritings.org

With Ian Alexander Moore and Katherine Withy, I run heideggerswritings.org, the most extensive and up-to-date online bibliography of Heidegger's writings and letters.

Sloths: a cultural history

An academic guilty pleasure and my most successful book: a cultural history of the sloth, co-authored with anglicism Heidi Liedke. Featured in German radio and newspapers.

Edited Volume

Chapters give an overview of phenomenological theories of agency from Husserl to the present. Includes my chapter "Life is an Adventure: Laszlo Tengelyi's phenomenology of agencyLink opens in a new window".

Enabling thinking

My take on Heidegger's philosophy of technology: "Letting things be for themselves: Gelassenheit as enabling thinkingLink opens in a new window".

With Roberta Dreon (Venice), I received a joint research grant from the EUTOPIALink opens in a new window university alliance (125.000€).

PhD supervision

‘The Possibility of Plant Minds’ (cotutelle Venice University) 2025-

‘Heidegger’s Intuition Thesis in Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics’ 2022-

‘Towards an Understanding of Othering’ 2022-2026.

Dictionary Work

I wrote long articles on phenomenological accounts of agencyLink opens in a new window and the concept of being-in-the-worldLink opens in a new window for the Encyclopedia of Phenomenology. I also authored entries in the Cambridge Heidegger DictionaryLink opens in a new window and for Oxford Bibliographies on the laterLink opens in a new window and middleLink opens in a new window Heidegger.

Intellectual History

With Ian Alexander Moore, I co-authored a little bookLink opens in a new window on Bühlerhöhe, the luxury spa resort where Heidegger lectured on Trakl and technology after WW II. You can read it for free in English,Link opens in a new window Spanish,Link opens in a new window and ItalianLink opens in a new window translation.

Phenomenology and Ontology in the Later Heidegger

Chapter in the Oxford Handbook of the History of PhenomenologyLink opens in a new window.

More Heidegger

Being before Time? Heidegger on original time, ontological independence, and beingless entities",Gatherings 2023.

Worlds, Worlding: Heidegger's Ontological Pluralism,Link opens in a new window Epoché 2023

Dwelling after 1945: Heidegger among the ArchitectsLink opens in a new window, in: Heidegger and the Human (ed. Jeff Malpas/Ingo Farin, Albany: SUNY 2022.

Heidegger's Black Notebooks and the logic of a history of beingLink opens in a new window, Research in Phenomenology 2017.

Of the Earth: Heidegger's Philosophy and the Art of Andy GoldsworthyLink opens in a new window, Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 2017.

Dionysius, Apollo, and other Göttliche: Denial and Excess of Meaning in Nietzsche, Heidegger, and WittgensteinLink opens in a new window", in: Rethinking Faith: Heidegger between Nietzsche and Wittgenstein (ed. Antonio Cimino/Gert-Jan van der Heiden) London: Bloomsbury 2016.

Seinsgeschichte und phänomenologischer Realismus. Eine Interpretation und Kritik der Spätphilosophie HeideggersLink opens in a new window, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2015 [Dr. phil. dissertation]

Series Editor

With Matthias Flatscher and Annika Schlitte, I co-edit the monograph series Philosophische UntersuchungenLink opens in a new window with Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen.

Humboldt grant

In 2019/2020, I was a Feodor-Lynen Fellow at Somerville CollegeLink opens in a new window, Oxford, working on Heidegger and mediaeval philosophy.

Research network

With funding Link opens in a new windowfrom DFG, I lead a collaborative book Link opens in a new windowproject on phenomenological approaches to metaphysics.

Some other papers

The Ambiguity of Sense and the Return of NatureLink opens in a new window, Research in Phenomenology 2026.

Offenheit als epistemische TugendLink opens in a new window, in: Wirklichkeit/Fiktion. Spannungsfelder eines Verhältnisses (ed. Markus Gabriel/Birgit Münch), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2026.

The Problem of Moralism and the Point of EqualityLink opens in a new window, International Yearbook for Hermeneutics 2022

Kriterienkrisen. Cavells Wittgenstein als KulturphilosophLink opens in a new window, Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 2019