Dr. Garner joined the UWG Philosophy Program in 2014 after studying at Villanova University (Ph.D. Philosophy ⇗, 2014) and Florida State University (B.A. Religion ⇗, 2005). His teaching and research interests range from ancient Greek philosophy to continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, and critical thought broadly (including translation thereof). His most significant research is linked below:

• Works-in-Progress:
  • Book project: Imagination and Truth: Creative Discovery in the Platonic Tradition (Bloomsbury Academic; contracted w/ expected 2027 release).
  • Article/chapter projects: Essays placing ancient views of imagination into conversation with threads in recent philosophy.
• Published Book:
  • John V. Garner, The Emerging Good in Plato's Philebus (Northwestern UP, 2017). ⇗
• Other Publications (selection): 
  
  • John V. Garner, “An Institution of Waiting: Capital Punishment in Weil and Camus,” in Re-Thinking Political Crisis and Collapse: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil, eds. A. Calcagno, S. G. Lofts, and M. Yenson (Lexington Books, forthcoming). [edited book chapter]
  • John V. Garner, “The Imaginal World and the Orientation of Perception: Henry Corbin and the French Phenomenological Context,” The Journal of Religion 104 (1), 2024 [peer-reviewed article]. ⇗
  • John V. Garner and Christopher P. Noble, “Possibility or Necessity? On Robert Watt’s ‘Bergson on Number’,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 32 (1), 2023 [peer-reviewed article]. ⇗
  • Cornelius Castoriadis, The Greek Imaginary: From Homer to Heraclitus, Seminars 1982–1983, co-trans. w/ M.-C. Garrido Sierralta (includes translator's “Foreword”) (Edinburgh UP, 2023) [book translation]. ⇗ 
  • John V. Garner, “Creative Discovery: Proclus and Plato on the Emergence of Scientific Precision,” Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 24 (2), 2020 [peer-reviewed article]. ⇗
  • Cornelius Castoriadis, Democracy and Relativism: A Debate (includes translator's “Foreword” ⇗) (RLI, 2019) [book translation]. ⇗
  • John V. Garner, “Creativity and Historical Non-Being in Nikulin’s The Concept of History,” Existenz: An International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics, and the Arts 14 (1), 2019 [invited article]. ⇗
  • John V. Garner, “Thinking Beyond Identity: Numbers and the Identity of Indiscernibles in Plato and Proclus,” Idealistic Studies 47 (1/2), 2017 [peer-reviewed article]. ⇗
  • John V. Garner, “Gadamer and the Lessons of Arithmetic in Plato’s Hippias Major,” META: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy 9 (1), 2017 [peer-reviewed article]. ⇗
  • John V. Garner, “Cornelius Castoriadis,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2011, rev. 2015 [peer-reviewed encyclopedia entry]. ⇗
  • Cornelius Castoriadis, Postscript on Insignificance: Dialogues with Cornelius Castoriadis, co-trans. w/ G. Rockhill (Continuum, 2011) [book translation]. ⇗
• For complete works, see Garner's CV. ⇗