Jordan Kokot, 'Immediacy, Presence, and Attention: On the Phenomenology of Creative Time.'

Jordan Kokot, William S. Minor Lecturer, 2020 Jordan is a Ph.D. student in philosophy at Boston University, writing under the direction of Dan Dahlstrom and Allen Speight. Jordan works at the intersection of 19th & 20th century philosophy (esp. Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty), phenomenology, the philosophy of art, and the philosophy of time. He received my M.A. in Philosophy from Boston University in 2013, writing a thesis on Nietzschean theories of governance. His dissertation is entitled The Phenomenology of Time-Consciousness in Art: Merleau-Ponty, Temporality, and the Rupture of Freedom. In addition to the 2020 dissertation fellowship from FPC, Jordan has been awarded several research and teaching grants. He organizes and runs the multidisciplinary Boston University Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art Reading Group and is a member of the Boston Phenomenology Circle. He also works and teaches in ethics, the philosophy of technology, and moral psychology, particularly, regarding comparability problems as they pertain theories of well-being and the relationship between value and time-consciousness.