H. Peter Steeves


Howard Peter Steeves is an American academic and author who is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Emeritus Director of the Humanities Center at DePaul University. He specializes in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophy of science.
Steeves received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Indiana University Bloomington in 1995. He has authored several books, including Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry ; The Things Themselves: Phenomenology and the Return to the Everyday ; Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding: Phenomenology and the Life of Art ; Being and Showtime ; Up From Under the Rulers: The Anarchic Phenomenological Communitarian Manifesto ; and is the editor of, and contributor to, Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology, and Animal Life and Political Animal: By Nature and Culture.
He has published more than 140 book chapters and journal articles, and has presented more than 220 public and academic professional lectures. Steeves has also been the recipient of a Fulbright Program Fellowship and an National Endowment for the Humanities grant. He has been a Fellow at Princeton and Stanford, and was a member of an astrobiology research group at NASA's Ames Research Center.
In 2011, the website Rate My Professors announced that based on their research culled from more than 1,500,000 professors in their database, Steeves was one of the “Top 15 Best Professors in the United States.”
His current research focuses primarily on cosmology and astrobiology—on the origin events of both the cosmos and life—and on APC.

Books authored

  • Steeves, H. Peter The Things Themselves: Phenomenology and the Return to the Everyday USA: State [University of New York Press]
  • Steeves, H. Peter Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding: Phenomenological Aesthetics and the Life of Art USA: State University of [New York Press]
  • Steeves, H. Peter Being and Showtime USA: Sawbuck Books

Papers published