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Haley Burke, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor Philosophy Office Location: AD 255
Dr. Haley Irene Burke is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of the Incarnate Word. Her research areas include continental philosophy, social philosophy, aesthetics, feminist philosophy and the history of philosophy. She specializes in phenomenology and hermeneutics, especially the legacies of Heidegger and Gadamer, and focuses on questions concerning the role of solidarity in social life. Dr. Burke holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and an M.A. in English from Texas A&M University, an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of New Mexico, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Metropolitan State University of Denver.  

Ph. D., Texas A&M University, 2025  

Dissertation: Hermeneutic Solidarity: Interpretive Charity for the Social Domain  

M. A., Texas A&M University, 2023 

M. A., University of New Mexico, 2019  

B. A., Metropolitan State University of Denver, 2016 

“Heidegger and Gadamer on Making Phenomenology Hermeneutical” Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 29, no. 2 (2025): 341-364.   

Co-authored with Fridolin Neumann. “Translator’s Introduction” to Hans-Georg Gadamer’s “On the Idea of System in Philosophy” (1924). British Journal for the History of Philosophy 33, no. 4 (2024): 930–938. 

“Education, Play, and the Political Valence of Art: Revisiting the Hermeneutic Interpretation of Schiller” Journal of Aesthetic Education 58. no 3 (2024): 20-39  

“Developing Gadamerian Virtues Against Epistemic Injustice: The Epistemic and Hermeneutic Dimensions of Ethics” Journal of Applied Hermeneutics. Article 9 (2022): 1–10 

Translation  

 Co-translated with Fridolin Neumann. Hans-Georg Gadamer’s “On the Idea of System in Philosophy” (1924). British Journal for the History of Philosophy 33, no. 4: 938-956. 

Book Reviews 

“Review of Eckhart, Heidegger, and the Imperative of Releasement by Ian Alexander Moore (SUNY. 2019)” Continental Philosophy Review 53, no. 4 (2020): 523–527.