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John Erik Hmiel serves as an Assistant Professor-Instructional within the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University's College of Liberal Arts, specializing in the intersection of intellectual history, philosophy, and art history.
His educational background includes:
- PhD in U.S. History, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2020)
Hmiel's research spans Intellectual History, History of Modern Philosophy, History of the Human Sciences, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Art, and Art History. His current book manuscript, "Beyond the Senses: The Postwar Human Sciences and the Decline of Modernist Authority," investigates how Cold War-era disciplines—including analytic philosophy and cognitive psychology—reshaped contemporary art theory by dismantling modernist dogmas like metaphysical genius and the authority of art criticism. This work traces intellectual lineages from Kant's 18th-century aesthetics through 20th-century thinkers like Danto and Goodman.
His publications reveal a cohesive scholarly trajectory examining philosophy's historical impact on art theory. The 2021 Danto article analyzes indiscernibility in analytic frameworks, while the 2015 Wittgenstein study explores neo-pragmatism's American evolution—both demonstrating how postwar human sciences enabled breaks from metaphysical traditions in aesthetic discourse.
Hmiel teaches foundational Intellectual Heritage courses: "The Good Life" (IH 0851) and "The Common Good" (IH 0852), guiding students through philosophical traditions from antiquity to modernity.
