David Weberman
Curriculum Vitae
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CURRICULUM VITAE

CONTACT

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Central European University
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ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

  • Fellow, Humanities Center, Central European University, 2005-
  • Associate Professor, Georgia State University, Department of Philosophy, 2002-2004                                      
  • Assistant Professor, Georgia State University, Department of Philosophy, 1999-2002
  • Fellow in Law and Philosophy, Harvard Law School, 1998-1999          
  • Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Philosophy, 1990-1998
  • Teaching Fellow, Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, 1989-1990           

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

  • 19th and 20th century European Philosophy; Philosophy of History; Hermeneutics

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

  • Political and Social Philosophy; Philosophy of Law; Theories of Emotion; Aesthetics; Ethics; Logic

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. Columbia University, Philosophy, 1990
  • M.Phil. Columbia University, Philosophy, 1987
  • M.A. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany. Philosophy. 1982.
  • -- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. French, Philosophy.

PUBLICATIONS

Book
  • Historische Objektivität, New York, Bern: Peter Lang, 1991.
Articles (* - refereed, i – invited)
  • “Phenomenology and History” in Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of History, forthcoming. [i]
  • “Review-Essay: Julian Young’s Heidegger’s Philosophy of Art” in Philosophical Inquiry (Athens), forthcoming. [i]
  • “Gadamer, Non-Intentionalism and the Underdeterminedness of Aesthetic Properties” in O Que Nos Faz Pensar, ed. by Deborah Danowski and Luiz Carlos P. Dias Pereira (Rio de Janeiro: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, 2004), 255-272. [i]
  • “Gadamer and the Heterogeneity of Understanding” in Gadamer Verstehen/Understanding Gadamer, ed.  by Mirko Wischke and Michael Hofer (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2003), 35-56. [i]
  • “The Matrix, Simulation and Postmodernism” in The Matrix and Philosophy, ed. by William Irwin (LaSalle, Ill., Open Court. 2002), 225-239. [i]
  • “Gadamer’s Hermeneutics and the Question of Authorial Intention” in The Death and Resurrection of the Author?, ed. by William Irwin (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002), 45-64. [i]
  • “On Racial Kinship” with Yalonda Howze, Social Theory and Practice 27 (July 2001): 419-436.[*]
  • “Heidegger’s Relationalism,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 9:1 (March 2001): 109-122. [*]
  • “Are Freedom and Anti-Humanism Compatible? The Case of Foucault and Butler,”- Constellations 7 (June 2000): 255-271. [*]
  • “A New Defense of Gadamer's Hermeneutics,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LX (January 2000): 45-65. [*]
  • “Reconciling Gadamer’s Non-Intentionalism with Standard Conversational Goals” The Philosophical Forum 30 (December 1999): 317-328. [*]
  • “Cambridge Changes Revisited: Why Certain Relational Changes are Indispensable,” Dialectica 53 (1999): 139-149. [*]
  • “Heidegger and the Source(s) of Intelligibility,” with Pierre Keller, Continental Philosophy Review 31 (October 1998): 369-386. [*] Reprinted in Dasein, Authenticity and Death: Heidegger Re-examined, (eds.) Hubert Dreyfus and Mark Wrathall (London: Routledge, 2002).
  • “The Nonfixity of the Historical Past,” Review of Metaphysics 50 (June 1997): 749-768. [*]
  • “Liberal Democracy, Autonomy and Ideology Critique,” Social Theory and Practice 23 (Summer 1997): 205-233. [*]
  • “Sartre, Emotions and Wallowing,” American Phil. Quarterly 33 (October 1996): 393-407.[*]
  • “Heidegger and the Disclosive Character of the Emotions,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 34 (Fall 1996): 379-410. [*]
  • “Foucault's Reconception of Power,” The Philosophical Forum 26 (Spring 1995): 189-217. [*]

Book reviews

  • “Douglas Donkel (ed.), The Theory of Difference,” Teaching Philosophy 29 (March 2006): 75-77.
  • “Karl Ameriks (ed.), Cambridge Companion to German Idealism,” Ethics 112 (July 2002): 884.
  • “Martin Morris, Rethinking the Communicative Turn: Adorno, Habermas and The Problem of Communicative Freedom,” Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur 94 (Spring 2002): 142-143
  • “Michael P. Lynch, Truth in Context: An Essay on Pluralism and Objectivity,” Teaching Philosophy 24 (March 2001): 81-83.
  • “Lewis R. Gordon (ed.), Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy,” Teaching Philosophy 23 (December 2000): 390-392.
  •  “Stephen Eric Bronner, Camus: Portrait of a Moralist,” Review of Politics 62 (Summer  2000): 620-622.
  • “Sabine S. Gelhaar (ed.), Jüdische Fragen als Themata der Philosophie,” Modern Austrian Literature 31 (1998): 162-163
  • “Michael Rosen, On Voluntary Servitude,” Ethics 108 (April 1998): 617-619.
  • “Jürgen Habermas, Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action,” Philosophical Review 101 (October 1992): 924-926. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism 104 (1998): 80-82.
  • “Ronald Roblin (ed.), The Aesthetics of the Critical Theorists: Studies on Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse and Habermas,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 50 (Summer 1992): 274.
  • “John Rajchman, Philosophical Events: Essays of the 80's,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 50 (Spring 1992): 168-169.

Translation

  • “Mathematics as Both Familiar and Strange” (“Mathematik als zugleich Vertrautes und Unbekanntes”) by Paul Bernays, translated with Pierre Keller, forthcoming in Wilfried Sieg and William Tait (eds.), Paul Bernays’ Philosophy of Mathematics.

PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS

Book

  • Interpretive Pluralism - a sustained defense of a nonrelativist, Gadamer-inspired, interpretive pluralism with special attention to the problem of interpretation in law, literature and history.

Articles

  • “Phenomenology and History” invited article for the Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of History
  • “Substantive Philosophy of History Revisited”
  • “Adorno on the Immediacy of Aesthetic Experience”

CONFERENCE PAPERS, PANELS, INVITED LECTURES AND TALKS

  • “Five Things to Know about Hermeneutics,” Università di Genova (Italy), February 2006.
  • “Heidegger’s Anti-Epistemology,” Central European University, November 2005.
  • Commentator on “Gadamer and the Fusion of Horizons,” APA Pacific meeting, San Francisco, March 2005 (not attended, paper read by chair of panel).
  • “Nietzsche and Callicles,” Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, February, 2005.
  • “Is Philosophy of History Legitimate or Simply a Case of Substance Abuse?” William Edwards Undergraduate Lecture, Emory University, November 2004.
  • “Is Substantive Philosophy of History a Legitimate Enterprise?” Central European University, Budapest, July 2004.          
  • “Cassirer’s Mythical Thought and Heidegger’s Problem with Consciousness,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Boston, November 2003.
  • “Nietzsche, Genealogy and the Genetic Fallacy,” German Studies Assoc., New Orleans, Sep. 2003.
  • Commentator on “Text, Time and Image in Walter Benjamin,” German Studies Assoc., New Orleans, Sep. 2003.
  • Nicholas Fotion’s “Moral Constraints of War,” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Atlanta, April 2003.
  • “Adorno on the Immediacy of Experience,” German Studies Association, San Diego, October 2002.
  • “Gadamer, Non-Intentionalism and the Underdetermninedness of Aesthetic Properties,” Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 2002.
  • “Against Intentionalism: The Underlying Intuition,” Furman University, February 2002.
  • Commentator on “Why Phenomenologists Cannot Discover Essences,” APA Eastern meeting, Atlanta, December 2001.               
  • “Gadamer’s Moderate Non-Intentionalism,” Brooklyn College-CUNY, December 2001.
  • “The Matrix, Simulation and Postmodernism,” Georgia State University, November 2001.
  • Session Chair, “The Dialogical and Communal Grounding of Practical Hermeneutics,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Goucher College, Baltimore, October 2001.
  • Commentator on “Interpretation and First-Person Authority,” Georgia State Univ., September 2001.
  • “What’s Behind Sanctity of Life Arguments?,” Panel on Abortion, Georgia State Univ., April 2001.
  • Commentator on “Sartre and Racialized Identity,” APA Pacific meeting, San Francisco, March 2001.
  • “The Hermeneutic Case Against Authorial Intention,” symposium paper APA Pacific meeting, San Francisco, March 2001.
  • “Does the Endeavor to Understand the Other Suppress the Other’s Otherness?,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, October 2000. Organized panel “Communication and Incommunicability in Adorno, Bataille, Levinas and Gadamer.”
  • “On Racial Kinship,” APA Central meeting, Chicago, April 2000.
  • “Is Group Identity in Bad Faith? A Sartrean Perspective,"  APA Eastern  meeting, Boston, Dec. 1999.
  • “On Racial Kinship,” Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, Georgia State University, September 1999 and Georgia Philosophical Society, Emory University, November 1999.
  • Panel Moderator, “Between Ethics and Justice,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Hartford, Conn., May 1999.
  • “Heidegger's Relationalism,” APA Central meeting, New Orleans, May 1999.
  • “A New Defense of Gadamer's Hermeneutics,” APA Pacific meeting, Berkeley, April 1999.
  • “Is Group Identity in Bad Faith? A Sartrean Perspective,” Tenth Biennial North American Sartre Society meeting, Los Angeles; Georgia State University, Miami University (Ohio), February 1999.
  • “Reconciling Gadamer's Non-Intentionalism with Standard Conversational Goals,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Denver, October 1998.
  • “A Relational Properties Approach to a Theory of Interpretation,” Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 1998.  Selected for on-line publication.
  • “Are Freedom and Anti-Humanism Compatible? The Case of Foucault and Butler,” Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 1998. 
  • “Power and Agency in Judith Butler's Work,” APA Pacific meeting, Los Angeles, March 1998.
  • “Interpretive Pluralism: An Overview,” University of Auckland, New Zealand, February 1998.
  • “The Nonfixity of the Historical Past,” National Chung-Cheng Univ., Rep. of China, January 1996.
  • “Sartre, Emotions and Wallowing,” National Tsing Hua University, Rep. of China, January 1996.
  • “Heidegger on the Disclosive Character of Emotions,” Lawrence University, February 1994.
  • “Towards a Genetic Conception of Ideology,” University of Wisconsin-Madison, February 1993.
  • “Heidegger contra Descartes,” University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, October 1991.
  • “Heidegger's Transcendental Historicism,” Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Wisconsin-Madison, January 1990.
  • “Comments on the Mind-Body Problem,” Drew University, January 1990.
  • “Heidegger's Transcendental Argument,” Illinois Institute of Technology, November 1989.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • 2005-, Central European University, Visiting Fellow
    Nietzsche, Kant’s First Critique, Philosophy of History
  • 2001-2004, Bard-Clemente Program in Humanities, Instructor
    Introduction to Philosophy
  • 1999-2004, Georgia State University, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor
    Undergraduate Courses: Great Questions of Philosophy, Existentialism, Hermeneutics, Nietzsche, Phenomenology, Mortal Questions, Sartre, Heidegger, Marxism, Aesthetics.
    Graduate Courses: Hermeneutics, Postmodernism, Nietzsche, Phenomenology, Sartre, Continental Aesthetics, Heidegger, Frankfurt School, Marxism, Merleau-Ponty, Aesthetics.
    Directed Studies: Heidegger, Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations
  • 1990-1998, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Assistant Professor
    Undergraduate Courses: Introduction to Philosophy, Hermeneutics and History, Heidegger, Existentialism, Foucault, Late Heidegger and French Philosophy, Philosophy of  History, Interpretation in Law and Literature
    Graduate Seminars: Heidegger, Autonomy and Ideology, Heidegger and Subjectivity, Frankfurt School, French Anti-Humanism, Hermeneutics, Late Foucault
    Directed Studies: Frankfurt School Aesthetics, Philosophy of History, Heidegger's Aesthetics, The End of Philosophy?, Death, Feminist Epistemology, Heidegger's Nietzsche
  • 1989-1990, Illinois Institute of Technology, Teaching Fellow
    Core Humanities Course, 20th Century Philosophy, Political Philosophy
  • 1987-1989, HEOP (program for disadvantaged students) Tutor
    Formal Logic
  • 1986-1989, New York University, Lecturer
    Introduction to Philosophy, Existentialism, Ethical Relativism
  • 1985-1989, Columbia University
    Teaching Assistant: Kant, Nietzsche
    Reader: Introduction to Philosophy
    Instructor: Existentialism
    Preceptor: Literature-Humanities

GRANTS

  • Humanities Fellowship, Central European University, 2005-2006 (2 yrs., paid).
  • Research Initiation Grant, Georgia State University, 2004.
  • Writing Across the Curriculum, Georgia State University, 2001.
  • University of Wisconsin Foundation Grants, 1991, 1993

ACADEMIC HONORS

  • Fellowship in Law and Philosophy, Harvard Law School, 1998-1999
  • IIT Humanities Fellowship (Mellon Foundation), Illinois Institute of Technology, 1989-90
  • President's Fellowship, Columbia University, 1983-1984, 1984-1985
  • Graduate with Distinction, Universität München, 1982

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

  • American Philosophical Association
  • Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
  • North American Sartre Society
  • Society for the Philosophy of History
  • Georgia Philosophical Society (Vice President 2000-2001, President 2001-2002)
  • German Studies Association

LANGUAGES

  • German: near-native reading, writing and speaking
  • French: very good reading, good writing and speaking

FOREIGN RESIDENCE AND LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION

  • Munich, Germany (7 years); Paris, France (1 year); Israel (6 months); Switzerland (3 months)
  • Deutschkurs für Ausländer an der Universität München (5 months)

DISSERTATION AND THESIS SUPERVISION

  • Central European University:
    Supervisor of Ph.D. Thesis (on Husserl’s theory of meaning)
  • Georgia State University:
    Supervisor of M.A. Theses, [Sartre (2); Nietzsche (2), Heidegger (1) and Cixous (1 for the Women’s Studies Institute), Merleau-Ponty (1)]. Member of M.A.Thesis Committee (on philosophy of law, on Tolstoy’s theory of art, on pragmatism, on Heidegger, on Sartre).
  • University of Wisconsin:
    Supervisor of Ph.D. Dissertations, (on Sartre; on philosophy of technology).
  • University of Wisconsin:
    Member of Ph.D. Dissertation Committees, Philosophy Dept., German Dept., English Dept., Sociology Dept., Political Science Dept., Dept. of Education Policy Studies.

UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENT SERVICE

  • Georgia State University:
    Director of Undergraduate Studies (2001 - ), Recording Secretary, Colloquium Program Committee Chair, Departmental Self-Study Committee, Junior Search Committee- Chair, Senior Search Committee, Visiting Instructor Search Committee, Curriculum Committee, Affiliate of Women’s Studies Institute.
  • University of Wisconsin: Admissions Committee, Continuing Students Fellowship Committee, Independent Major Committee, DAAD/Bonn Fellowships Committee, Foreign Language Committee.

REFEREEING

  • Books:
    Broadview Press, Longman Publishers, Oxford University Press.
  • Articles:
    American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Continental Philosophy Review, Dialogue (Canada), Herder Jahrbuch, Inquiry, Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur, Synthese.
  • M.A. Thesis:
    University of Auckland (New Zealand).
  • Fellowship:
    Killam Fellowship, Canada Council of the Arts (Ottawa), 2001
  • Tenure Case:
    Beloit College.
  • Other:
    Fine Arts Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997, Journalism History Society, Georgia State University, 2002.

LETTERS OF REFERENCE

  • Claudia Card, Professor, Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Danowski, Deborah, Associate Professor, Philosophy, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Raymond Geuss, Reader, Philosophy, Cambridge University
  • Paula Gottlieb, Professor, Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Charles Guignon, Professor, Philosophy, University of South Florida
  • Frederick Neuhouser, Professor, Philosophy, Columbia University
  • Marcus G. Singer, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Wilhelm Vossenkuhl, Professor, Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.
  • Mirko Wischke, Privatdozent, Philosophy, University of Olmütz, Czech Republic.
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