Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire

Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the School of Civic Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin, where he will begin teaching in Fall 2027. He specializes in 19^th-20^th Century post-Kantian European philosophy (especially phenomenology and hermeneutics), ancient Greek philosophy (especially Plato and Aristotle), and the reception of the ancient Greek tradition in European philosophy. He is also interested, more broadly, in the history of philosophy and political thought, and in how philosophy and literature relate to each other. He is the author of Heidegger and German Platonism: The Shadows of Marburg (Cambridge University Press, 2026), Heidegger and his Platonic Critics (Cambridge University Press, 2025), and of various articles on post-Kantian European philosophy and ancient philosophy. He is currently finishing a book entitled Ethics without Metaphysics? Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Hermeneutic Aristotelianism, and projects to work on education and play in Plato’s dialogues afterwards. He earned his Ph.D. from the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and worked as a postdoctoral research scholar affiliated with Boston University and Oxford (2023-2025) and with the University of Ottawa (2025-2027).

Education

B.A. in Philosophy, Université Laval

M.A. in Philosophy, University of Ottawa

Ph.D. in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago