Charles Guignon

{{Short description|American philosopher}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox academic | name = Charles Guignon | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Charles Burke Guignon | birth_date = February 1, 1944 | birth_place = Amarillo, Texas, U.S. | death_date = May 23, 2020 (aged 76) | death_place = Palm Harbor, Florida, U.S. | residence = | home_town = | spouse = | partner = | alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley | thesis_title = Heidegger and the Structure of Traditional Epistemological Arguments | thesis_year = 1979 | school_tradition = Continental philosophy | doctoral_advisor = Hubert Dreyfus | academic_advisors = Hans-Georg Gadamer | influences =  | discipline = Philosophy | sub_discipline =  | workplaces = {{ubl | University of Texas at Austin | University of Vermont | University of South Florida}} | doctoral_students =  | notable_students =  | main_interests = {{hlist | Martin Heidegger | existentialism | hermeneutics}} | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced =  | signature = | signature_alt = }} '''Charles Burke Guignon''' (February 1, 1944 – May 23, 2020) was an American philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of South Florida.<ref>[http://nietzsche.events.wfu.edu/speakers/ Nietzsche and Community speakers]</ref> He is known for his expertise on Martin Heidegger's philosophy and existentialism.<ref>[http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/23949-heidegger-a-very-critical-introduction/ Heidegger: A (Very) Critical Introduction]</ref> He became a member of the Florida Philosophical Association in the early 2000s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.phil.ufl.edu/fpa/members/index.html |title=MEMBERS |publisher=Florida Philosophical Association |access-date=April 12, 2014}}</ref>

==Bibliography== * Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1983). * Editor, Dostoevsky's "The Grand Inquisitor," with Related Chapters of "The Brothers Karamazov" (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993). Includes a 40-page editor's introduction. * Co-editor (with D. Pereboom), Existentialism: Basic Writings (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1995). Book introduction and introductions to Nietzsche and Heidegger. * Editor, The Good Life (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1999). Book introduction and introductions to 25 readings. * (with Frank C. Richardson and Blaine Fowers). Re-envisioning Psychology: Moral Dimensions of Theory and Practice (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999). * Co-editor (with David C. Hiley). Richard Rorty, “Philosophy in Focus” series (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). * Editor, The Existentialists (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004). * On Being Authentic (a volume in the Thinking in Action series) (London: Routledge, 2004). * Editor, Cambridge Companion to Heidegger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). Includes editor's introduction and one chapter ("Authenticity, Moral Values, and Psychotherapy"). [Translated in Portuguese and Romanian]. Second enlarged edition, with new editor's Preface: 2006. [Translated into Chinese]. * Dostoevsky's "Notes from the Underground", edited with an Introduction (40 pages) with K. Aho (Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing, 2009).

==See also== {{Portal|Biography|Philosophy}} *Authenticity (philosophy) *The good life *Hubert Dreyfus

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==External links== * [http://philosophy.usf.edu/faculty/cguignon/ Guignon at the USF Philosophy Department] * [http://philosophy.usf.edu/faculty/data/cguignon_cv.pdf Guignon's CV]

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