Frank Scalambrino, Ph.D.

Dr. Frank Scalambrino is a 21st-century transcendental-existential philosopher. He began teaching university-level philosophy courses in January, 2004. He has won multiple teaching awards from institutions including, but not limited to, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Duquesne University, and Kent State University. He has published ten (10) books, four (4) of which made Amazon's new-release best-selling list. He has taught multiple graduate-level seminars, including, but not limited to, Aristotle's Metaphysics, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Heidegger's Being & Time, Deleuze's Difference & Repetition, Existentialism, Modernism to Postmodernism, and Philosophical Principles of the History & Systems of Psychology.

     As part of his commitment to produce open-access philosophy and continue to contribute to the history and tradition of Western philosophy, Dr. Scalambrino created The Philosophemes Channel on YouTube (https://bit.ly/philosophemes), and he hosts the podcast Basic Philosophical Questions (https://bpq.podbean.com/). In 2021 he released a two-volume book set titled: What Is Existentialism? He, sincerely, stands by the claim that it is the first book published (since the invention of the word "existentialism" in the 1940s) that actually answers the question: What is existentialism?

     Before age 27 he founded a Community Mental Health Suicide Prevention Respite Unit and Clinical Intervention Center; he subsequently received awards from multiple mental health agencies across the local, county, and state levels of Ohio, and, in the same year, was inducted into Chi Sigma Iota, the international counseling honor society.

     He has worked in various direct service provision and leadership capacities in mental health clinics, psychiatric hospitals, emergency rooms, and trauma centers (including the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center). As an undergraduate, he was the starting quarterback and a captain of the Kenyon College football team.

     With a phrasing inspired by a quote from the haiku poet Bashō, regarding the trajectory of his research, Dr. Scalambrino holds:

"I do not seek to follow in the footsteps 

of the great philosophers; 

I seek what they sought."