Richard Capobianco, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy, Department Chair
B.A., Hofstra University
M.A. and Ph.D, Boston College
E-mail: rcapobianco@stonehill.edu
Phone: (508) 565-1037
Office: Duffy 236
All of us desire to know, but philosophers have a passion to know. As far back as I can recall, I experienced a need to question, and that ultimately led me to the discipline of philosophy. More specifically, it was great thinkers and engaging teachers such as Hans-Georg Gadamer and William J. Richardson who inspired me to my life-long study of existentialism, aesthetics, phenomenology and hermeneutics, and particularly the thought of Martin Heidegger.
There is not — and never shall be — a teaching technology that can replace the transformative face-to-face encounter of human beings together in the pursuit of understanding. That's why the classroom has always been so special to me and why teaching has been so rewarding and satisfying over the years. The classroom is a place where a special kind of 'friendship' is forged.
Professor Capobianco received the Stonehill Teaching Excellence Award in 2000, was the founder of the college's Honors Program in 1992, and also received a Graduate Teaching Excellence Award at Boston College in 1985. His most recent book is titled Engaging Heidegger, University of Toronto Press, 2010.
Courses Taught:
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Ethics and Moral Character
- Ethics: Individual and State
- Ethics and the Arts
- Heidegger and His Influence
- Existentialism
- Philosophy and the Unconscious
- Hermeneutics
- Philosophy of Art (Aesthetics) [cross-listed in Fine Arts]
- Philosophy of Architecture [cross-listed in Fine Arts]
- Honors Senior Seminar: Out of the Cave: On the Nature and Practice of Education