Contact

sean.haefner@mtangel.edu

Education

PhD: Boston College (2026)
MA: Boston College (2021)
BA: Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts (2019)

Courses taught

• Philosophy of the Human Person
• Epistemology
• Modern Philosophy
• Perspectives on Western Culture I: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and Theology
• Perspectives on Western Culture II: Modern and Contemporary Philosophy and Theology
• Philosophy of the Person I: Ancient and Medieval
• Philosophy of the Person II: Modern and Contemporary
• Introduction to Philosophy as a Way of Life

Research interests

• Phenomenology of Vocation
• Ethics
• Edmund Husserl
• Early 20th Century Phenomenology
• St. Thomas Aquinas on Contemplation
• Bernard Lonergan’s Cognitional Theory

Select projects

• “The Unconditional in the Broken World: Gabriel Marcel on Hope and Revelation.” Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift 76, 2 (2025): 115–128.

Professional associations

• American Catholic Philosophical Association