The 41st Meeting of the Heidegger Symposium

Professor Richard Owsley founded the North Texas Heidegger Symposium in 1980, and hosted it for over twenty years.

A prominent Jaspers scholar, Richard also wrote on Heidegger and helped to develop the Department of Philosophy and
Religious Studies at the University of North Texas. He died on February 16, 2003, at the age of 79.

In its original incarnation the NTHS was held once a year and Prof. Owsley invited prominent speakers such as John Sallis, Theodore Kisiel, Reiner Schurmann, and many others to give the keynote address, but the many concurrent sessions and panels always included local scholars as well as UNT faculty members and graduate students from a wide variety of disciplines. 

In the last several years of Prof. Owsley's life, as his health declined, his doctoral student, Keith Brown, took over the reins. After Richard's death, the Symposium lay fallow for a year or so, when Charles Bambach of the University of Texas at Dallas, and Rod Coltman of Collin College, in collaboration with Robert Wood of the University of Dallas and several other area scholars (mainly members of the DASEIN reading group), decided to revive the NTHS  and reconstitute it in the smaller more intimate form that it enjoys today.