Dr. Eric Mohr earned his Ph.D. from Duquesne University in 2014 and joined the Philosophy Department at Saint Vincent College that same year. He is also Chair of the Liberal Arts Department and Secretary of the Max Scheler Society of North America. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA.
Dr. Mohr's research focuses on themes within social and moral phenomenology in a personalist vein, such as personal identity, individuality, and value, the conditions for their apprehension, and implications for dignity, injustice, social organization and policy.
He is co-editor of Edith Stein and Max Scheler in Dialogue (Lexington Press, forthcoming), Legacies of Max Scheler (Marquette University Press, 2025), and Mister Rogers and Philosophy: Wondering through the Neighborhood (Open Court, 2020).
Selected Publications
Mohr, “Two Tenets of Personalism: Irreducibility and Individuality in Scheler and Stein,” Edith Stein and Max Scheler in Dialogue (Bloomsbury, 2025).
Mohr, "Through Windows of Love and Hatred: A Critical Phenomenology of Dehumanization," in Phenomenologies of Love (Brill, 2024).
Mohr, "The Dignity of Difference: Individuality as Source and Expression of Personal Value," in Legacies of Max Scheler (Marquette, 2024).
Mohr, "Mixing Fire and Water: A Critical Phenomenology," in Phenomenology for the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave, 2016).
