Brian Kemple received his Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of St. Thomas, TX in 2016. Since then, he has written two scholarly monographs (Ens Primum Cognitum in Thomas Aquinas and the Tradition, and The Intersection of Semiotics and Phenomenology: Peirce and Heidegger in Dialogue) as well as an Introduction to Philosophical Principles and Linguistic Signification. He is the author of many articles, both scholarly and popular, and after teaching for several years at the college level, Dr. Kemple started the Lyceum Institute (https://lyceum.institute), an online community of continued philosophical habit.