Recent Articles and Book Chapters:

In English:

• “Charity in Interpretation: Principle or Virtue? A Return to Gregory the Great,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, special issue on Catholicism and Phenomenology, ed. Michael Bowler and Mirela Oliva (forthcoming).

• “The Scaffolding Role of a Natural Language in the Formation of Thought: Edmund Husserl’s Contribution,” in Language and Phenomenology, ed. Chad Engelland. London: Routledge, 2021, 194-211.

• “Between Appropriation and Transmission: The Romantic Thread in Heidegger’s Existential Notion of Understanding,” in The Palgrave Handbook of German Romantic Philosophy, ed. Elizabeth Millán. London: Palgrave McMillan, 2020, 607-630.

• “From Fallibility to Fragility: How the Theory of Narrative Transformed the Notion of Character of Fallible Man,” in A Companion to Ricoeur’s Fallible Man, ed. Scott Davidson. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019, 145-162.

• “Dialogue or Drama? The Event of Interpretation in Gadamer and Foucault,” in Paul Fairfield and Saulius Geniusas (eds.), Relational Hermeneutics: Essays in Comparative Philosophy. London: Bloomsbury, 2018, 131-148.

• “Historicizing the Mind: Gadamer’s ‘Hermeneutic Experience’” Compared to Davidson’s ‘Radical Interpretation,’” in Véronique Fóti and Pavlos Contos (ed.), Phenomenology and the Primacy of the Political. Springer, 2017, 87-106.

• “How Husserl’s and Searle’s Contextual Model Reformulates the Discussion about the Conceptual Content of Perception,” in Roberto Walton, Shigeru Taguchi, Roberto Rubio (ed.), Experiential Reason: Husserl on Perception, Affectivity, and Volition. Dordrecht: Springer, 2017, 57-76.

• “Translators’ Introduction: Hermeneutics at the Crossroads between History and Philosophy” (with Arun Iyer), in The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer: Volume I Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy, edited and translated by Pol Vandevelde and Arun Iyer. London: Bloomsbury Publishings, 2016, p. xvi-xxxv.

• “The Enigma of the Past: Ricoeur’s Theory of Narrative as a Response to Heidegger,” in Hermeneutics and Phenomenology in Paul Ricoeur: Between Text and Phenomenon, ed. Scott Davidson and Marc-Antoine Vallée. Dordrecht: Springer, 2016, p. 123-139.

• "Two French Variations on Truth: Ricoeur’s Attestation and Foucault’s “Parrhesiastic” Attitude,” Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, (2015) 46:1, 33–47.

• “Language as the House of Being? How to Bring Intelligibility to Heidegger While Keeping the Excitement,” Philosophy Compass, 9:4, (2014), 253-262.

• “Forgiveness in a Political Context: The Challenge and the Potential,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 39:3, (2013), 263-276. 

• “Husserl and Searle on the Completable Nature of the Object of Perception,” in Ingo Guenzler and Karl Mertens (eds.), Wahrnehmen, Fühlen, Handeln. Phänomenologie im Wettstreit der Methoden. Münster: Mentis Verlag, 2013, p. 347-363.

• “The Phenomenological Correlation between Consciousness and Object Faced with its Hermeneutical Challenge,” in Variations on Truth: Approaches in Contemporary Phenomenology, ed. Pol Vandevelde and Kevin Hermberg. London: Continuum, 2011, 3- 21.

• “Heidegger’s Fluid Ontology in the 1930s: The Platonic Connection,” in Variations on Truth: Approaches in Contemporary Phenomenology, ed. Pol Vandevelde and Kevin Hermberg. London: Continuum, 2011, p. 109-126.

• “Literature and Phenomenology: A Historical Perspective,” in Phenomenology and Literature, ed. Pol Vandevelde. Würzburg: Koenigshausen und Neumann, 2010, p. 8-42. 

• “Translation as a Mode of Poetry: Heidegger’s Reformulation of the Romantic Project,” in Phenomenology and Literature, ed. Pol Vandevelde. Würzburg: Koenigshausen und Neumann, 2010,p.  93-113. 

• “Strengths and Limitations of Discourse Ethics: The Contribution of Karl-Otto Apel,” Philosophy Today, (2010), 54:2, 153-164.

• “What is the Ethics of Interpretation?,” in Consequences of Hermeneutics, ed. Jeff Malpas and Santiago Zabala. Evanston, IL.: Northwestern University Press, 2010, p. 288-305.

• “Between Epistemic Virtue and Metaphysics of Knowledge: The Place of Love in Pierre Rousselot’s Epistemology,” in Pierre Rousselot, Essays on Love and Knowledge, ed. Andrew Tallon and Pol Vandevelde, trans. Andrew Tallon, Pol Vandevelde, and Alan Vincelette. Vol. 3 of The Collected Philosophical Works of Pierre Rousselot. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2008, p. 22-50.

• “An Unpleasant but Felicitous Ambiguity: Sinn and Bedeutung in Husserl’s Revisions of the Logical Investigations, in Filip Mattens (ed.), Meaning and Language: Phenomenological Perspectives. Dordrecht: Springer, 2008, p. 27-48. 

• “The challenge of the “such as it was”: Ricoeur’s Theory of Narratives,” in David Kaplan (ed.), Reading Ricoeur. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008, p. 141-162.

• “A Pragmatic Critique of Pluralism in Text Interpretation,” Metaphilosophy, 36 (2005), 501-521.

• “Derrida’s Intentional Skepticism. A Husserlian Response,” The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 36 (2005), 160-178.

• “Intersubjectivity and the Instability of the Transcendental Ego in Husserl,” Laghi lecture. Josephinum Journal of Theology, 11 Supplement (2004), 269-302.

• “Diuina eloquia cum legente crescunt. Does Gregory the Great Mean a Subjective or an Objective Growth?” Rivista di storia della filosofia, 58 (2003), 611-636.

• Communication and Rational Justification: A Phenomenological Stance,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 27 (2001), 55-79. Re-printed in David Rasmusen and James Swindal (eds.), Habermas II, London: Sage Publications, 2009.

• “Karl-Otto Apel’s Critique of Heidegger,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 38 (2000), 651-675.

• “Poetry as a Subversion of Narratives in Heidegger,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 72 (1999), 239-254.

• “The A Priori of Language in Apel’s Transcendental Philosophy,” in Karl-Otto Apel, Towards a Transformation of Philosophy. Reprint. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1998, p. xiii-xxxviii. 

• “Afterword: Karl Jaspers in a Postmodern Era: Communication v. Dissemination,” in Karl Jaspers, Reason and Existenz. Reprint. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1997, p. 159-181. 

• “Paul Ricoeur: Narrative and Phenomenon,” in Paul Ricoeur, A Key to Edmund Husserl’s Ideas. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1996, p. 7-29.

• “The Notions of ‘Discourse’ and ‘Text’ in Postmodernism. Some Historical Roots,” Philosophy and Theology, 6 (1992), 181-200.

In French:

• “La vulnérabilité au cœur de l’humain: comment Levinas peut nous aider à comprendre la déshumanisation,” in L’humanité à l’épreuve de la déportation, ed. Cathy Leblanc et Jean-François Petit. Lille: Geai Bleu Éditions, 2020, 35-59.

• “La fraternité comme réponse éthique: Les enjeux et les risques d’une expérience en commun,” in La Fraternité à l’épreuve de la déportation, ed. Cathy Leblanc. Lille: Le Geai Bleu Éditions, 2017, 107-128.

• “Les frontières sociales du corps vécu,” in Le corps à l’épreuve de la déportation, ed. Cathy Leblanc. Lille: Le Geai Bleu Éditions, 2016, p. 51-68.

• “Les enjeux et les difficultés du pardon communautaire,” in Cathy Leblanc, Le pardon à l’épreuve de la déportation. Lille: Le Geai Bleu Éditions, 2015, p. 99-121. 

• “La pensée de l’événement : Heidegger et le romantisme allemand,” Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 112/2 (2014) 395-410.

• “Le fondement ontologique du récit selon Ricoeur: mimesis, dette et attestation,” Studia Phaenomenologica XIII (2013), 244-259.

• “Karl-Otto Apel et le projet d’une nouvelle forme de philosophie transcendantale,” in Karl-Otto Apel, Transformation de la philosophie, volume 2, textes rassemblés et traduits sous la direction de Pol Vandevelde. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2009, 9-59.

• “Le modèle de la traductibilité chez Husserl et Ricoeur. L’exemple de la littérature,” Studia Phaenomenologica, vol. VIII (2008), 159-175.

• “Le pardon communautaire est-il possible? Le problème posé par Disgrâce de J.M. Coetzee,” Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie, 139 (2007), 65-77.

• “Platonisme et romantisme chez Heidegger entre 1936 et 1945,” Existentia, 14 (2004), 95-118.

• “Sens et langue chez Heidegger. L’aporie de la voie politique entre 1933 et 1935,” Études phénoménologiques, 37-38 (2003), 149-174.

• “L’interprétation comme acte de conscience et comme événement. Une critique de Gadamer,” in Laurent Van Eynde (ed.), Littérature et savoir(s). Brussels: Publications des facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, 2002, p. 41-64.

• “Deux paradigmes du rôle du langage dans la formation du sens: John Searle et Martin Heidegger,” Existentia, 11 (2001), 67-111.

• “La littérature comparée,” in Guy Jucquois and Christophe Vielle (eds.), Le comparatisme dans les sciences de l’homme. Approches pluridisciplinaires. Bruxelles/Paris: De Boeck Université, 2000, p. 245-280.

• “La traduction comme interprétation. Une comparaison et quelques répercussions théoriques,” Existentia, 8 (1998), 1-26.

• “Coexistence et communication. Un point de vue phénoménologique,” in Marc Richir and Natalie Depraz (eds.), Eugen Fink. Actes du Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle 23-30 juillet 1994. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997, p. 247-269. 

• “Phénoménologie et Existentialisme,” in J. Bessière, E. Kushner, R. Mortier, J. Weisgerber (eds.), Histoire des poétiques. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997, p. 409-416.

• “Vergegenwärtigung et présence originale chez Husserl: Le rôle de l’articulation langagière,” Recherches Husserliennes, 6 (1996), 91-116.

• “Ontologie et récit selon Ricoeur: Une application au roman de Günter Grass, Les années de Chien,” Études de Lettres, 3-4 (1996), 195-213.

• “Articulation et communication. L'exemple de la littérature,” in Robert Brisart and Raphaël Célis (eds.), La voix des phénomènes. Contributions à une phénoménologie du sens et des affects. Brussels: Presses Universitaires de Saint-Louis, 1995, p. 111-146. 

• “Communication et monde vécu chez Husserl,” Études Phénoménologiques, 20 (1994), 65-100.

• “L'oeuvre d'art comme discours. Heidegger et la question de la discursivité,” Heidegger Studies, 9 (1993), 125-136.

• “Heidegger et la poésie. De Sein und Zeit au premier cours sur Hölderlin,” Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 85 (1992), 5-31.

• “Aristote et Heidegger à propos du Logos. L’enjeu de la discursivité d’une traduction,” Revue de Philosophie Ancienne, 9 (1991), 169-198.

• “Madame Dargent de Bernanos. Échos balzaciens, miroir aux écritures,” Les Lettres Romanes, 42 (1988), 415-431.

• “Le statut de l'étymologie dans le Cratyle de Platon,” Les Études Classiques, 55 (1987), 137-150.

• “Les mots à double voix. D'un usage heideggérien de la langue,” Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 85 (1987), 522-537.

• “Le temps d'une sonate. La traversée du Pont des Arts de Claude Roy,” Les Lettres Romanes, 40 (1986), 45-60.

• “Claude Roy,” Auteurs Contemporains. Bruxelles: Didier Hatier, 4 (1986), p. 67-93

In German:

• “Dichtung als Übersetzung. Heideggers Reformulierung von Platon unter dem Einfluss der Romantik,” in Alfred Denker, Holger Zaborowski, and Jens Zimmermann (eds.), Heidegger und die Dichtung. Heidegger-Jahrbuch 8. Freiburg: Alber, 2014, p. 108-122.

• “Sind die Grenzen der Sprache die Grenzen meiner Welt? Eine phänomenologische Kritik an Derrida,” Philosophica 6 (2005), 303-313.

• “Literatur und Wahrheit am Beispiel Ernesto Sabatos,” in Hans Rainer Sepp and Jürgen Trinks (eds.), Literatur als Phänomenologisierung. Vienna: Turia & Kant, 2003, p. 30-63.

In Spanish:

• “El suplemento de la imaginacíon en la narracíon. O de cómo Husserl aporta un complemento a la perspectiva de Ricoeur," Anuario Filosófico 51.2 (2018): 127-153.

Authored, Edited, and Translated Texts:

• Heidegger and the Romantics: The Literary Invention of Meaning. London/ New York: Routledge, 2012.

  • Awarded the Prix Cardinal Mercier by the Université de Louvain

• The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning , and Negotiation. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.

• Être et Discours. La question du langage dans l'itinéraire de Heidegger (1927-1938). Bruxelles: Académie Royale de Belgique, 1994.

  • Awarded First Prize by the Royal Academy of Belgium.

• The Selected Writings of Hans-George Gadamer: Volume I Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy, edited and translated by Pol Vandevelde and Arun Iyer. London: Bloomsbury Publishings, 2016.

• Hans-Georg Gadamer, The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer: Volume II Art, Action and the Historical Dimension of Language, edited and translated by Pol Vandevelde and Arun Iyer. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, forthcoming.

• Variations on Truth: Approaches in Contemporary Phenomenology, edited by Pol Vandevelde and Kevin Hermberg. London: Continuum, 2011.

• Phenomenology and Literature, edited by Pol Vandevelde. Würzburg, Germany: Koenigshausen und Neumann, 2010.

• Karl-Otto Apel, Transformation de la philosophie, volume 2, textes rassemblés et traduits sous la direction de Pol Vandevelde. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2010.

• Epistemology, Archaeology, Ethics: Current Investigations of Husserl’s Corpus, edited by Pol Vandevelde and Sebastian Luft. London: Continuum, 2010.

• Pierre Rousselot, Essays on Love and Knowledge, ed. Andrew Tallon and Pol Vandevelde, trans. Andrew Tallon, Pol Vandevelde, and Alan Vincelette. Vol. 3 of The Collected Philosophical Works of Pierre Rousselot. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2008.

• Issues in Interpretation Theory, edited by Pol Vandevelde. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2006.

• Edmund Husserl, Autour des Méditations Cartésiennes, trans. from German by Natalie Depraz and Pol Vandevelde. Grenoble: Millon, 1998.

• Paul Ricoeur, A Key to Edmund Husserl’s Ideas. Edited by Pol Vandevelde, trans. B. Harris and J. Bouchard Spurlock. Marquette University Press, 1996.

• Martin Heidegger, Aristote, “Métaphysique IX 1-3.” De l'essence et de la réalité de la force, trans. from German by Bernard Stevens and Pol Vandevelde. Paris: Gallimard, 1991.

Keynote Addresses and Invited Lectures:

• “Is Love Necessary for Knowing?” Institute Lecture, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Mumbai, India, January 11, 2018.

• “How Charitable is Davidson's Principle of Charity? A Gadamerian Critique," Department of Philosophy, Mumbai University, Mumbai, India, January 4, 2018.

• “Literature and Suffering: The Power of Narratives,” invited paper, Department of Philosophy, Seattle University, November 18, 2016.

• “Justice, Charity, and Ethics in Interpretation,” invited paper in the satellite session “Catholicism and Phenomenology,” Annual Conference of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, San francisco, CA, November 5, 2016.

• “Dialogue or Drama: The Role of Language in Gadamer and Foucault,” invited paper, Colloquium of the Philosophy Department, DePaul University, April 22, 2016. 

• “How Radical Must Interpretation Be? Gadamer’s Case Against Davidson,” Keynote Address Marquette University Graduate Philosophy Conference, March 28, 2015.

• “Le rôle de l’imagination dans le récit chez Ricoeur et Davidson,” invited lecture, Université Catholique de Lille, March 11, 2015. 

• “Pourquoi faut-il un moment narratif et imaginatif dans le récit de l’action et de l’événement? Ricoeur et Davidson,” invited lecture, Jornada de estudio en torno a la ficción en Ricoeur, Universidad Alberto Hurtado Santiago, Chile, November 14, 2014.

• “The Political Role of Greek Tragedy: The Case of Sophocles’ Philoctetes,” invited lecture in a course on Verdad, Bien y Belleza, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, November 13, 2014.

• “Husserl and Searle on the Conceptual Content of Perception,” Invited paper, Seminario académico interno, Department of Philosophy, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile, June 2014

• “The Thought of the Event: Heidegger and Early German Romanticism,” Colloquium paper, Marquette University, April 2014

• “L'être, la compréhension et l'événement: Heidegger et le romantisme allemand,” invited paper, Université Catholique de Lille, March 2014.

• “La pensée de l’événement : Heidegger et le romantisme allemand,” invited public lecture, Université de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, November 2013.

• “Event and Language in Ricoeur and Heidegger,” invited paper, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, March 25, 2013.

• “Attestation as a New Version of Parrhesia: How Ricoeur Re-interprets Foucault,” Plenary Speaker, III Congreso iberoamericano sobre el pensamiento de Paul Ricoeur: Reconocimiento, justicia y vida buena, Santiago de Chile, March 22, 2013.

• “Things as Objects that Can Be Completed: Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Foucault,” invited paper, St John’s University, Queens, New York, February 2012.

• “El Perdón: Implicancias Politicas,” invited paper, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile, June, 2011.

• “Heidegger: El Lenguaje y la historia,” invited lecture, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile, June, 2011.

• “The Unfinished Project of Philosophical Hermeneutics,” invited paper, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Montreal, November 2010.

• “Übersetzung als Potenzierung. Heidegger und die Frühromantik,” invited paper, University of Wuppertal, Germany, July 2010.

• “Is There a Future for Transcendental Philosophy? The Contribution of Karl-Otto Apel,” Colloquium of the Department of Philosophy, Marquette University, April 2009.

• “Love as an Epistemic Attitude. Contribution to Virtue Epistemology,” Keynote address, Graduate Students Conference, University of Gonzaga, April 2008.

• “De l’épistémologie à l’ontologie: La théorie du récit de Ricoeur,” invited paper, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, February 2008.

• “Le modèle de la traductibilité chez Husserl et Ricoeur: l'exemple de la littérature,” invited paper, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, Department Colloquium, May 30, 2007.

• “Pardon Communautaire. Le défi de la réconciliation en Afrique du Sud selon J.M. Coetzee,” invited paper, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, May 2005.

• “Language and Thought in Husserl and Heidegger,” Marquette Philosophy Colloquium, April 2005.

• “Sind die Grenzen der Sprache die Grenzen der Welt?” invited paper, Olomouc, Czech Republic, May 2004.

• “Entre l’auteur et l’écrivain. A qui de droit?” invited paper, “Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en droit de la culture,” Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, Limelette (Belgium), May 2002.

• “La littérature comme acte éthique,” invited paper, Séminaire de recherches littéraires, Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, Bruxelles, May 2002.

• “The Intricacies of Epistemology and Anthropology in Husserl’s Notion of Intersubjectivity,” The Laghi Chair Lectures Series, Pontifical College Josephinum, Columbus, Ohio, March 2002.

• “What Does It Mean to Interpret? A Phenomenological Account,” Marquette University, Philosophy Colloquium, November 2001.

• “Meaning and Intention: How Contemporary Novels Contribute to the Philosophical Discussion,” invited paper, Prague, Czech Republic, October 2000.

• “Coexistence et communication. Un point de vue phénoménologique,” invited paper, Centre International de Cerisy, Cerisy, France, July 1994.

• “Heidegger et le langage II,” invited lecture, Department of Philosophy, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium, April 1991.

• “Heidegger et le langage I,” invited lecture, Department of Philosophy, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium, April 1991.

• “Texte et Discours à partir de Heidegger,” invited paper, Department of Philosophy, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium, March 1991.

• “The Notions of ‘Discourse’ and ‘Text’ in Postmodernism. Their Historical roots and their Role,” invited paper, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, February 1991.

• “Heidegger et la question des catégories dans Sein und Zeit,” invited paper, Centre d'Études Jan Patočka, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Brussels, Belgium, January 1991.

• “L'étymologie scientifique et l'étymologisme,” invited paper, Université de Louvain (Belgium), “Institut de Linguistique,” February 1987