Mason Tattersall is a doctoral candidate in the History and Philosophy of Science who works in the fields of modern intellectual history and the history of science, primarily dealing with the history of questions of relational and transcendent meaning in European philosophy and the history of science (particularly quantum mechanics). Other areas of interest include: the history of philosophy, particularly the thought of Martin Heidegger; issues of authenticity, meaning, belief, and the history of nihilism; the existentialist tradition, especially Heidegger, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche; historiography and historical thinking; the history of scientific thought, art, literature, expressionism, and visual culture (especially film).
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PHD Dissertation:
The intersection between philosophy and theoretical physics in Central Europe in the 1920′s
Master’s Thesis:
“The Concept of Authenticity in Heidegger’s Being and Time: Thoughts and Revisions on a Critical Theme,” (Vancouver: The University of British Columbia, 2007). [Link]
Undergraduate Honours Thesis:
“Encountering Historiography: The Possibility of a Heidegger-Friendly Historiography”
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Other Significant Work:
“Faust’s Dog, From Reflection to Despair: Kierkegaard’s Notion of Faust and the Chimera of Meaning”
[Currently under review]
“The Question of 1933: Heidegger, Truth, Science, and Modernity”
[Currently under review]
“The Magic of the Movies: Walter Benjamin, Hugo Muensterberg, and the Metaphysics of Film Technology”
“Movie Projectors and Machine Guns: Rapid-Fire Art Education and the Essence of the Modern”