James C. Risser

James C. Risser
Born	1946
Education	Duquesne University (PhD)
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy
Institutions	Seattle University
Thesis	Truth and Aesthetic Experience in Kant's Critique of Judgement (1978)
Doctoral advisor	John Sallis
Main interests	hermeneutics

James Conrad Risser (born 1946) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. He was Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair of Humanities between 1991 and 1994 and the president of the North American Society of Philosophical Hermeneutics (2012–2015).

Books

• The Life of Understanding: A Contemporary Hermeneutics. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012)
• (Edited) American Continental Philosophy. Edited by Walter Brogan and James Risser. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000)
• (Edited) Heidegger Toward the Turn: The Work of the 1930s. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999)
• Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other: Re-reading Hans-Georg Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics (Albany: SUNY Press, 1997)