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My website: http://tigerroholt.com

I am Chair of the Philosophy department. I write about meaningfulness, technology, art and music. My M.A. and Ph.D. are from Columbia University; my B.A. is from the University of Minnesota.

I teach Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Art, and Introduction to Philosophy.

My Writing:
• Distracted from Meaning: A Philosophy of Smartphones (Bloomsbury Academic, October 2022);
• “Performance, Technology, and the Good Life” (in The Oxford Handbook on the Phenomenology of Music, forthcoming);
• “Being-with Smartphones” (Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 25, no. 2, 2021);
• "On the Divide: Analytic and Continental Philosophy of Music” (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 75, 2017);
• Groove: A Phenomenology of Rhythmic Nuance (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014);
• Key Terms in Philosophy of Art (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 — translated into Chinese, Arabic, and Persian);
• "In Praise of Ambiguity: Musical Subtlety and Merleau-Ponty" (Contemporary Aesthetics 11, 2013);
• “Philosophy of Music” (in The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edn, 2013 — also at Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online);
• "Continental Philosophy and Music" (in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, 2011);
• "*Musical* Musical Nuance," (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 68, 2010);
• "Musical Experience" (in The Oxford Companion to Consciousness, 2009 — also at Oxford Reference Online).

Specialization

I write about meaningfulness, technology, art and music.

Office Hours

Fall

Monday

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Friday

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Spring

Monday

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Friday

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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