Publications
Butler, M. and Werkheiser, I. (editors) Forthcoming (Nov. 2022). “Digital Worlds” special issue of Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology Vol. 26, No. 3. Link to CFP
Butler M. Forthcoming (expected 2021). “Buying Green – A Trap For Fools: Sartre on Ethical Consumerism” in Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene, Matthew Ally and Damon Boria (eds). Lexington Books. (7000 words).
Butler, M. and Gallagher, S. 2018. “Habits and the Diachronic Structure of the Self,” in The Realization of the Self, Andrea Altobrando, Takuya Niikawa, Richard Stone (eds). Palgrave Macmillan. (6600 words)
Butler, M. 2016. “There is No Good Answer: The Role of Responsibility in Sartre’s Ethical Theory.” Sartre Studies International, Vol. 21, No. 2, 97-107
Butler, M. and Gallagher, S. 2017. “Merleau-Ponty” The Encyclopedia of Social Theory, Wiley Blackwell. (1000 words)
Translations from French to English
Legrand, D. 2018. “The Violence of the Ethical Encounter: Listening to the Suffering
Subject as a Speaking Body” Continental Philosophy Review, 51 (1): 43-64
Book Reviews
Butler M. 2018. “The Birth of Sense: Generative Passivity in Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy by Don Beith” CHOICE, Vol. 56, No. 7 (200 words).
Butler M. 2017. “Science as Social Existence by Jeff Kochan” CHOICE Vol. 55, No. 12 (200 words).
Conference Presentations
| October 2020 | The City, The Highway and the Spatial Level: Navigation Apps and Disorientation Accepted but not presented due to COVID-19 The Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy Toronto, Ontario |
| March 2020 | History as Anti-Human: Sartre on Experiencing the Past Accepted but not presented due to COVID-19 North Texas Philosophical Association University of Texas, Dallas |
| May 2019 | Developmental Space: What Navigation Apps Get Wrong About Our Experience of Movement Presented at Society for Philosophy of Technology Texas A&M, College Station, TX |
| October 2018 | Institution and the Problem of the Past: Time in Merleau-Ponty’s Lectures at the College de France Presented at “Merleau-Ponty at the College de France, Expression, Intercorporeity, Nature” Palacky University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic |
| October 2018 | Sartre and the State of Nature: The (Re)Production of Scarcity and Sociality in the Critique of Dialectical Reason Presented at the North American Sartre Society University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA |
| March 2018 | Being Sens-ed by the World: Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and the Significance of Place in Minimal Self-Awareness Presented at the North Texas Philosophical Association University of Texas Dallas, Dallas, TX |
| February 2017 | Autonomy and the Embodied Mind Presented at the Philosophical Collaborations Conference SIU Carbondale, Carbondale, IL (with Dr. Somogy Varga) |
| June 2016 | Embodied Knowing and the Ontology of Nature Presented at the Canadian Hermeneutics Institute Toronto, ON |
| October 2015 | Divine Philosophers and the Nocturnal Council in Plato’s Laws Presented at the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Fordham University, New York, NY |
| June 2014 | There is No Good Answer: The Role of Responsibility in Sartre’s Ethical Theory Presented at Diverse Lineages of Existentialism St. Louis, MO |
| October 2013 | “Do not ask me who I am and do not ask me to remain the same:” Foucault’s Discontinuous Subject in The Archaeology of Knowledge Presented at The Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, ON |
| October 2013 | Activity, Passivity and Original Choice: Responding to a Merleau-Pontean Critique of Sartrean Freedom Presented at the bi-ennial meeting of the North American Sartre Society University of Windsor, Windsor, ON |
