Carman's main areas of interest are in the philosophy of
Martin Heidegger and in
phenomenology. He is the author of ''Heidegger’s Analytic: Interpretation, Discourse, and Authenticity in Heidegger's
Being and Time (2003) and Merleau-Ponty
(2008), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty'' (2005). He is also co-editor of a philosophy series with Ashgate Publishing called "Intersection: Continental and Analytic Philosophy".
Hubert Dreyfus considered Carman to be one of the leading contemporary authorities on Heidegger and on Heidegger's concept of death in particular. Carman was featured, along with Dreyfus,
Charles Taylor,
Albert Borgmann,
Mark Wrathall and
Sean Kelly, in the documentary
Being in the World (2010), which explores the phenomenology of everyday life. == References ==