I am a philosopher specializing in phenomenology and have retired after one year short of fifty years teaching. The last twenty-four years have been spent at Fordham University (New York) with previous stints at Coe College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Mount Saint Mary’s College (Emmitsburg, Maryland), and Georgetown University (Washington, DC).
My main area of interest is phenomenology with a particular focus on issues in the philosophy of mind (intentionality, consciousness, and the emotions), epistemology, and ethics (both meta-ethics and normative ethics). I have written extensively on Edmund Husserl’s theory of intentionality and interpretation thereof as well as comparisons with other theoretical approaches. More recently, I have focused on developing a view of evaluative and volitional intentionality in order to examine the special manner in which the valuable properties of things and the specifically moral properties of agents and their actions are manifested to us. My aim in this research is to develop a phenomenological, teleological, and non-consequentialist account of ethics.
A secondary field of interest is ancient philosophy. I believe that phenomenology can recover classical themes, especially in epistemology and ethics, in ways that meet the challenges posed to ancient and medieval thinkers by the modern philosophical tradition while at the same time retaining what is of most value in the modern tradition and critiques thereof.
[The picture in the header is a sunrise in Carolina Beach, North Carolina. The picture of me was taken on a celebratory trip after my wife and I retired; this was taken in Dubrovnik during our trip to the beautiful country of Croatia. See how relaxed I look!]
John J. Drummond 
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