Jameson Cockerell, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Biography
"My philosophical research takes a Thomistic and phenomenological orientation toward issues in metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, epistemology, and the philosophy of God. I completed my Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Dallas (2025) where my dissertation focused on the experience of understanding in Thomas Aquinas, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger. I argued that to secure understanding's place in a shared, meaningful world requires the complementary resources of both Thomism and transcendental phenomenology. My M.A. thesis (2019) compared Aquinas and Jean-Luc Marion on the meaning of 'being' in our knowledge of God.
I have been teaching at UD since 2021, including as a Wojtyla Teaching Fellow ('22-23)
and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy ('25-26). I have published articles in the
International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (forthcoming), the Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and Ramify.
Why study and teach philosophy? It deepens my appreciation for the true, good, and
beautiful and thus I believe it is an essential ingredient to a meaningful life on
the way to wisdom. When not scheming an escape to the mountains, my wife and I reside
with our four children in Fort Worth.