I work on where meaning comes from in perceptual and embodied life.
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dominican University of New York.
My research addresses questions in the philosophy of perception and epistemology through phenomenology, but it is pluralistic in method: I treat phenomenology as a resource enriched by dialogue with analytic philosophy, critical theory, and the history of philosophy. I test phenomenological claims against concrete cases — dementia, color vision, developmental psychology, and the perceptual dimensions of racism.
Books
Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy of Perception: The Content
and World of Perception
Routledge Research in Phenomenology, 2023
Motivation and the Primacy of Perception: Merleau-Ponty’s
Phenomenology of Knowledge
Ohio University Press, Series in Continental Thought, 2021
In progress
- Monograph
- Representation and Awareness: A Phenomenological Sketch. Under contract with Routledge. It argues that perceptual awareness lacks a vehicle, and that no satisfactory account of phenomenal character lets perception be both representational and direct — pointing toward a relational view that is nonetheless not naïve realism.
- Anthology
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings, second edition. Editor. Under contract with Routledge.
- Volume
- Motivation and Temporality, co-edited with Christos Hadjioannou and Nikos Soueltzis. Under contract with Routledge.
- Book
- A study of perceptual categorization, drawing on Stein, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, in which perceptual categories are neither fixed natural kinds nor projections but emerge through the relation between perceptual sense and embodied habituation.
Contact
peter.antich@duny.edu
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Dominican University of New York, Orangeburg, NY 10962