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David Schenk

David Schenk
David Schenk

Associate Professor

David Schenk

Associate Professor

dschenk@messiah.edu (717) 796-1800, ext. 2208

Office: 457 Boyer Hall
Metaphysics, Phenomenology, and Logic

Statement of Faith

  • Ph.D., Philosophy – University of Iowa, 2003
  • B.A., Philosophy – Antioch College, 1991
  • The Philosophy and Apologetics of C. S. Lewis (First-Year Seminar)
  • Problems in Philosophy
  • Logic
  • Epistemology and Metaphysics
  • Phenomenology
  • Philosophy of Time
  • Heidegger
  • Continental Philosophy
  • Modal Logic
  • The Philosophy of Panayot Butchvarov
  • The Philosophy of Dostoevsky
  • “A New Phenomenological Defense of the Date Theory of Time,” presented at the Central Division American Philosophical Association. Chicago, IL, April 2007
  • “Heidegger's B-Theoretic Phenomenology” International Philosophical Quarterly. Vol. 46, no. 182 (2006)
  • “Sensing Reality Robustly: The Protometaphysical Foundations of Butchvarov’s Epistemology” in The Philosophy of Panayot Butchvarov: A Collegial Evaluation, ed. Larry Lee Blackman (Edwin Mellen Press, 2005)
  • “The Causal Origins Theory of Times” Chronos: Proceedings of the Philosophy of Time Society. Vol. 5 (2004)
  • “On the Egocentric Experience of B-Time,” presented at the Eastern Division American Philosophical Association. New York, NY, December 1995
  • “Quentin Smith's Felt Meanings of the World: An Internal Critique” Journal of Speculative Philosophy. Vol. 7:1 (1993)
  • The nature of necessity, especially as applied to the status of possible worlds
  • Arguments from religious experience and the phenomenology of religious experiences
  • Personalism
  • Time and divine providence
  • The relationship between the laws of Reason and the physical world
  • August, 2009 – present: Associate Professor, Messiah College
  • August, 2006 – June, 2009: Assistant Professor, Messiah College
  • August, 2003 – July, 2006: Assistant Professor, University of Saint Thomas