Timothy Schatz’s Biography

Timothy Schatz is currently working on his MA in philosophy in the Boston College Philosophy Department. Timothy Schatz is in the second year of his MA program. Timothy Schatz began his work in the Boston College Philosophy department in the fall of 2021. In addition to his studies, Timothy Schatz serves as the MA Council Chair for the Boston College Philosophy Department since fall 2021 and a teaching assistant in the Boston College Psychology Department since spring 2022. Timothy Schatz completed his undergraduate education at the University of Oregon, completing a B.S. in mathematics and philosophy, with honors. Timothy Schatz intends to begin a PhD in philosophy in 2023. His academia.edu page can be found here, his philpeople page here, and his linkedin can be found here

Area of Interest

I am interested in the phenomenology of emotions. I focus on questions of ontological opacity and ambiguity, as given in both subjective and intersubjective emotional experiences. My work in this area has focused on wonder, melancholia (depression), and guilt, but I also am interested in other emotions such as anger, resentment, and the like in interpersonal contexts. With that, I am interested in the limits of phenomenological methods, primarily drawing from Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and Husserl. Alongside this, I am interested in psychoanalysis, namely Freud.

Conferences

September 2022 “The Guilty Body and the Opacity of Its Gestures” Merleau-Ponty: Institution-Ontology-Politics, University of Lisbon

April 2022 “A Phenomenological Investigation of the Meaning of the Reality of Climate Change in its Scientific and Political Dimensions” Boston University Graduate Student Philosophy Conference 2022: Sustainability & Environmental Ethics, Boston University

April 2022 “Descartes and the Essential Meaningfulness of the World” Gonzaga Graduate Philosophy Conference: Art, Liturgy, Ecology: Philosophy and the Meaning of the (Material) World, Gonzaga University

March 2022 “Man’s Place in the Cosmos: On the Tension of Transcendence and Subservience in On Learned Ignorance” Boston College Graduate Student Conference: God & the Human Person, Boston College

February 2022 “Christian Mysticism: Isn’t it Nonsense?” Northeast Philosophy of Religion Colloquium, Fordham University

Apiril 2021 “The Question of an Ethical Imperative on Us as Readers of the Nicomachean Ethics” Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Pacific University Oregon

May 2020 “On the Phenomenological Deduction of Peirce’s Categories” Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Oregon

Publications

Schatz, Timothy. “An Investigation into the Systematic Meaning of Sensuous-Certainty in Hegel.” Ex Animo 1, no. 1 (2021): 49–59. https://doi.org/10.5399/uo/exanimo.1.1.5.

Talks

Januaray 2022 “Philosophy and Community” University of Oregon Philosophical Society, University of Oregon