Jeffrey Colgan
2025-2026 Graduate Fellow, Center for Ethics
Biography
Jeffrey Colgan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy. His dissertation, The Limits of Language and Philosophy, is written under the direction of Prof. Richard Velkley. His research interests include Ethics, Philosophy of Language, Political Philosophy, Post-Kantian European Philosophy (esp. Wittgenstein & Heidegger), Ancient Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy, and History of Analytic Philosophy.
The Center for Ethics Graduate Fellowships provides support to outstanding Tulane doctoral students who have excelled in their fields of specialization, have demonstrated an interest in ethical questions that cut across disciplinary boundaries, and are likely to make significant contributions to teaching and scholarship in their respective fields.
Publications
“Translating the Tractatus and Tractarian Ethics” in Passinsky, Asya, Julio De Rizzo, and Benjamin Schnieder, eds. Facets of Reality — Contemporary Debates: Proceedings of the 45th International Wittgenstein Symposium. De Gruyter, forthcoming.
Review of Transcending Reason: Heidegger on Rationality, Matthew Burch and Irene McMullin, eds. Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, Vol. 13 (2023): 273-279.
“The Comstock Apparatus” chapter in Canaday, Margot, Nancy F. Cott, and Robert O. Self, eds. Intimate States: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern US History. University of Chicago Press, 2021. Co-written with Jeffrey Escoffier and Whitney Strub.
Education & Affiliations
- PhD Candidate in Philosophy, Tulane University
- MA, University of Chicago (2016)
- BA, St. John’s College (2011)
