LEE BRAVER Philosophy Department University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave, FAO226 Tampa, FL 33620 [email protected]
Employment:
Professor University of South Florida 2016-present
Associate Professor University of South Florida 2013-2016
Associate Professor Hiram College 2006-2013 Department Chair Hiram, Ohio
Assistant Professor Hiram College 2000-2006 Hiram, Ohio
Publications:
I. Books
Division III of Heidegger’s Being and Time: The Unanswered Question of Being, Editor (MIT Press, 2015)
Reviewed in: The Review of Metaphysics (Vol 71, Issue 1), September 2017, pp. 139-40 Notre Dame Philosophy Reviews (http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/67426-division-iii-of- heideggers-being-and-time-the-unanswered-question-of-being/) Phenomenological Reviews (http://reviews.ophen.org/2016/05/20/lee-braver-ed- division-iii-heideggers-time-unanswered-question/) Library Journal Reviews (http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2016/02/books/nonfic/nonfiction-on-martin- heidegger-and-being-and-time-xpress-reviews/) Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy Book Reviews (http://www.c-scp.org/2016/12/15/lee-braver-ed-division-iii-of- heideggers-being-and-time.html)
Heidegger: Thinking of Being (Polity Press, 2014)
Reviewed in: Notre Dame Philosophy Reviews (http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/54728-heidegger- thinking-of-being/) The Review of Metaphysics (Vol 68, Issue 3), March 2015 Braver-2
London School of Economics and Political Science (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2014/05/18/book-review-heidegger-thinking-of- being-by-lee-braver/) New Media & Society (Vol 17, No. 3), March 2015 doi: 10.1177/1461444814563046 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Vol 21, Issue 4), December 2015, pp. 959-60. (https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12325)
Groundless Grounds: A Study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger (MIT Press, 2012)
Reviewed in: Notre Dame Philosophy Reviews (http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/38529-groundless- grounds-a-study-of-wittgenstein-and-heidegger/) Foucault Studies (Issue 18, Oct 2014) Philosophy in Review (XXXIII, No. 5) Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger (Vol. 65, No. 3) Radical Philosophy 179 (May/June 2013) Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (Issue 45:1), January 2014, doi: 10.1080/00071773.2014.915639 Australasian Journal of Philosophy (Vol. 92, Issue 1; 2013), doi: 10.1080/00048402.2013.862557 The Review of Metaphysics (Vol 66, Issue 3), March 2013 Journal of Applied Hermeneutics (April 13, 2014) Irish Left Review (December 18, 2013)
Heidegger’s Later Writings: A Reader’s Guide (Bloomsbury Books, 2009)
Reviewed in: Kritike (Vol. 4, No. 1)
A Thing of This World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism (Northwestern University Press, 2007)
Reviewed in: Journal of the History of Philosophy (Vol. 48, No. 4) Philosophy Today (Vol. 52, No. 2) The Review of Metaphysics (Vol. 62, No. 4) Continental Philosophy Review (Vol. 45, No.1) Notre Dame Philosophy Reviews (http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=19848) Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger (Vol. 63) The Heythrop Journal (Vol. 52, No. 1) Cosmos and History (Vol. 6, No. 1) Subject of an online reading group receiving thousands of hits (http://pervegalit.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/a-this-of-this-world-by-lee-braver- reading-group)
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II. Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“Propensities return us to the discovery-creation debate about entrepreneurial opportunities.” Braver, L., & Danneels, E. Academy of Management Review, October 2018. Vol 43, Issue 4: pp. 812–815. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.20180030
“Is there (still) a Continental-Analytic divide in philosophy? Is it necessary to bridge the Analytic-Continental divide?” Gavagai. Issue 3. November 2017, pp. 150-1.
“Heidegger’s Schematizations,” in After Heidegger? ed. Gregory Fried and Richard Polt (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017).
“Before Infinitude: A Levinasian Response to Meillassoux’s Speculative Realism.” Continental Realism and Its Discontents. Ed. Marie-Eve Morin. Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
“Davidson’s Interpretation of Quine’s Radical Translation, and How It Helped Make Analytic Philosophy a Tradition.” Analytic Philosophy: An Interpretive History. Ed. Aaron Preston. Routledge, 2017.
“‘Kontinentale’ Philosophie.” Handbuch Metaphysik. Ed. Markus Schrenk. J.B. Metzler Verlag, 2017.
“Coin-Operated Doors and God: A Gnostic Reading of Philip K. Dick’s Ubik.” Extrapolation 56.1. April, 2015, pp. 83-110. doi: 10.3828/extr.2015.6.
“Thoughts on the Unthinkable.” Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy. December, 2015, pp. 1-16. http://www.parrhesiajournal.org/parrhesia24/parrhesia24_braver.pdf
“Introduction,” “Turning From a Given Horizon to the Givenness of Horizons.” Division III of Heidegger’s Being and Time: The Unanswered Question of Being, (MIT Press, 2015).
“Reasons, Epistemic Truth, and History: Foucault’s Criticism of Putnam’s Anti-Realism.” Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century. Eds. Jeffrey A. Bell, Andrew Cutrofello, and Paul M. Livingston. New York: Routledge, 2015.
“Transgressive Realism in Art.” Methode, Vo. 4, No. 5 (2015), pp. 18-29. http://dx.doi.org/10.13135/2281-0498%2F5 http://www.methode.unito.it/methOJS/index.php/meth/article/view/144
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Translated as “Un’Estetica Realista e Trasgressiva.” I Nuovi Realismi. Ed. Sarah De Sanctis. Milano, Italy: Bompiani. 2017.
“Hermeneutics and Language Philosophy.” In Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics. Eds. Hans-Helmuth Gander and Jeff Malpas. New York: Routledge, 2014.
“Realism.” In Meillassoux Dictionary. Eds. Peter Gratton and Paul J. Ennis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
“How I Mark Up Philosophy Texts.” Teaching Philosophy. Vol. 14, No. 1, Fall 2014, pp. 13-16. http://www.apaonline.org/resource/collection/808CBF9D-D8E6-44A7-AE13- 41A70645A525/TeachingV14n1.pdf
“On Not Settling the Question of Realism.” Speculations IV, 2013. http://www.speculations-journal.org/storage/Braver_On Not Settling_Speculations_IV.pdf
“Disintegrating Bugbears: Heidegger and Wittgenstein on Basic Laws of Thought.” Wittgenstein and Heidegger. Eds. David Egan, Stephen Reynolds, and Aaron Wendland. New York: Routledge, 2013.
“Later Essays and Seminars.” The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger. Eds. François Raffoul and Eric S. Nelson. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.
“Never Mind: Thinking of Subjectivity in the Dreyfus-McDowell Debate.” Mind, Reason, and Being-in-the-World: The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate. Ed. Joseph K. Schear. New York: Routledge, 2013.
“A Brief History of Continental Realism.” Continental Philosophy Review: Volume 45, Issue 2 (2012), pp. 261-289. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-012-9220-2
“Analyzing Heidegger: A History of Analytic Reactions to Heidegger.” Interpreting Heidegger. Ed. Daniel Dahlstrom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
“Davidson’s Reading of Gadamer: Triangulation, Conversation, and the Analytic-Continental Divide.” Dialogues with Davidson. Ed. Jeff Malpas. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2011.
“Paraphrasing: An Exercise to Teach Close Reading in Introductory Classes.” APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy. Spring 2005. http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/publications/newsletters/v04n2/Teaching.pdf
“Ascent and Descent,” “Fortune,” “Order/Chaos,” co-authored with Paul G. Kuntz. Encyclopedia of
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Comparative Iconography. Ed. Helene E. Roberts. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998.
IIA. Forthcoming Publications
“Epoché,” “Kehre,” “Seinsvergessenheit,” “Seinsverlassenheit,” Übergang.” The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon. Ed. Mark Wrathall. Cambridge University Press.
“Dilthey and Wittgenstein: Understanding Understanding.” Interpreting Dilthey: Critical Essays. Ed. Eric S. Nelson. Cambridge University Press.
“Heidegger and Wittgenstein on the Social Self.” Die Jemeinigkeit des Mitseins: Die Daseinsanalytik Martin Heideggers und die Kritik der soziologischen Vernunft. Eds. Gallina Tasheva and Johannes Weiss. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck Verlag.
“An Ethics of Courage and Honesty in Wittgenstein and Heidegger.” Heidegger and his Anglo- American Reception. Eds. J. Rogove, P. D’Oriano. Indiana University Press, Studies in Continental Thought, 2019.
“The Real Scandal.” New Realism and Contemporary Philosophy. Ed. Gregor Kroupa. Bloomsbury.
III. Presentations
“Philip K. Dick: Science-Fiction Prophet.” USF Humanities Institute. University of South Florida. Tampa, FL. November 27, 2018.
“How the Real World Became Unthinkable, and Why That Might Be a Good Thing: A Brief Discussion of Transgressive Realism.” Invited Speaker. Catholic University of America. March 17, 2017.
“Transgressive Realism and Its Discontents.” Invited Speaker. Realisms Workshop. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. April 11, 2015.
“The Limits of Thought.” Keynote Address. 8th Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference. University of South Florida. Tampa, FL. March 13, 2015.
“An Ethics of Courage and Honesty in Wittgenstein and Heidegger.” Invited Speaker. The Anglo-American Reception of the Thought of Martin Heidegger. University of Chicago, Center in Paris. Paris, France. January 17, 2015.
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“Thoughts on the Unthinkable.” Keynote Address. Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy. Australian Catholic University. Melbourne, Australia. December 5, 2014.
Panel Discussion on Postgraduate and Early Career Matters. Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy. Australian Catholic University. Melbourne, Australia. December 4, 2014.
“Heidegger, Foucault, and Clocks: An Impure Genealogy of Time.” Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. New Orleans, LA. October 24, 2014; and Heidegger Circle. St. Petersburg, FL. May 11, 2014.
“What Is Knowledge? Two Historical Theories and One Contemporary Application.” Invited Speaker. Internal Medicine Residency Program. Oak Hill Hospital. November 6, 2014.
“The Critical Split Between Continental and Analytic Philosophy.” Invited Speaker. Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Eugene, OR. October 26, 2013.
“Three Takes on Realism: Anti, Speculative, and Transgressive.” Invited Speaker. Kent State University. Kent, Ohio. February 21, 2013.
“On Not Settling the Question of Realism.” Invited Speaker. Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Rochester, NY. November 2, 2012.
“Existential Honesty in Wittgenstein and Heidegger.” Invited Speaker. International Society for Phenomenological Studies. Kennebunkport, Maine. August 1, 2012.
Respondent. Author Meets Critics Session on A Thing of This World. APA Central Division Meeting. Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion. Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 31, 2011.
“Never Mind: Thinking of Subjectivity in the Dreyfus-McDowell Debate.” Response to the Keynote Address by Hubert Dreyfus. Northern New England Philosophical Association Conference. University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, October 13, 2007.
“Why Wittgenstein was Not a Pragmatist.” NEH Summer Seminar “Pragmatism: A Living Tradition.” University of New Mexico, Summer 2007.
“Robots in an Interdisciplinary Course in the Liberal Arts,” co-authored with Ellen Walker, Computer Science. AAAI Spring Symposium. Stanford University, March 26-28, 2007. https://www.aaai.org/Papers/Symposia/Spring/2007/SS-07-09/SS07-09-040.pdf
“Heidegger, Genealogies, History of Being: Why Heidegger Has Always Been, for Foucault’s Genealogy, the Essential Philosopher.” Society for the Philosophy of History. APA Central Division Meeting. Chicago, April, 2006.
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“Davidson’s Reading of Gadamer: What He Missed, Why, and What He Could Have Learned.” Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion. APA Central Division Meeting. Chicago, April, 2006.
“Reading the Analytic-Continental Division as Anthropology from Two Kantian Points of View.” Mid- South Philosophy Conference. The University of Memphis. February 25, 2006.
“Strange Questions: Thinking After the Destruction of the Tradition in Later Heidegger.” APA Central Division Meeting. Chicago, April 28, 2005.
“Questioning Heidegger: The Question of the Question in Late Heidegger.” 22nd Annual Heidegger Symposium. Denton, Texas, 10/30-11/2, 2002.
IV. Reviews and Professional Activity
Founding Editorial Board Member of New Heidegger Research, Rowman and Littlefield International.
Referee of philosophy faculty quality for The Philosophical Gourmet Report (2014-present).
Content Editor for Philosophy at academia.edu (2015-present).
Referee for The Council for the Humanities of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NOW).
Review of Heidegger and Cognitive Science, edited by Julian Kiverstein and Michael Wheeler. Mind: Volume 123, Number 490; April 2014; pp. 616-19; doi: 10.1093/mind/fzu093. http://mind.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/fzu093?ijkey=HUyF8zEQlaTASmF&keyt ype=ref
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Review of How History Matters to Philosophy: Reconsidering Philosophy’s Past After Positivism, Robert C. Scharff. Human Studies. Vol 37, Issue 4, pp. 583-7. August, 2014. Doi: 10.1007/s10746-014-9320-6.
Session Chair, International Society for Phenomenological Studies. Kennebunkport, Maine. July 30, 2014.
Review of The Fate of Wonder: Wittgenstein’s Critique of Metaphysics and Modernity, Kevin M. Cahill. British Wittgenstein Society. August 28, 2012. http://www.editor.net/BWS/docs/Lee-Braver-Fate_wonder-review.pdf.
Review of The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things, A.W. Moore. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. March 24, 2012. http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/29679-the- evolution-of-modern-metaphysics-making-sense-of-things/.
Review of Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity, Iain D. Thomson. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. July 8, 2011. http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24754-heidegger-art-and-postmodernity/.
Review of Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts, ed. Bret W. Davis. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. March 13, 2010. http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=19267.
Chair, invited panel on later Heidegger. APA Eastern Division Meeting. New York City, December 30, 2009.
NEH Summer Seminar “Pragmatism: A Living Tradition.” University of New Mexico, June 18-July 20, 2007.
Organized panel discussion “Continental and Anti-Realist Interpretations of Davidson” featuring Samuel C. Wheeler III, Mark Okrent, and Timothy J. Nulty, in association with the Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion. APA Central Division Meeting. Chicago, April, 2006.
Editorial Consultant and/or Reviewer for: Mind Journal of the American Philosophical Association HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science The Journal of the History of Philosophy Teaching Philosophy The Southern Journal of Philosophy Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory The Journal of Consciousness Studies PhaenEx. Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture Synthesis Philosophica: The International Journal of the Croatian Philosophical Society
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Presses: Routledge, Open Humanities, Edinburgh University, Lexington, Cambridge University, MIT, The Catholic University of America Press, New Heidegger Research, Rowman and Littlefield International.
External Reviewer for Promotion to Full Professor for University of New Mexico
V. Interviews
Breaking the Spell: Contemporary Realism Under Discussion. Eds. Sarah De Sanctis and Anna Longo. Mimesis International, 2015. http://mimesismagazine.com/interview-with-lee-braver/
Philosophical Readings. Vol. 1, Issue 2; Summer 2014. Pp. 147-50. http://issuu.com/philosophicalreadings/docs/pr22014/0
The Biggest Questions. May 30, 2013. http://tonysobrado.com/2013/05/30/the-biggest-questions-what- is-reality-and-truth-tony-sobrado-speaks-to-professor-lee-braver/
Interstitial: A Journal of Modern Culture and Events. To be reprinted in Theoretically Speaking (INTERpress, 2013). http://interstitialjournal.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/braver-interview.pdf
3ammagazine. August 24, 2012. http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/on-heidegger-wittgenstein-derrida/
New Books in Philosophy. August 15, 2012. http://newbooksinphilosophy.com/2012/08/15/lee-braver- groundless-grounds-a-study-of-wittgenstein-and-heidegger-mit-press-2012/
Newappsblog. November 30, 2011. http://www.newappsblog.com/2011/11/new-apps-interview-lee- braver.html
Figure/Ground Communication. May 4, 2011. http://figureground.ca/interviews/lee-braver/
Post-Continental Voices: Selected Interviews. Ed. Paul Ennis. Winchester, UK: zerO Books, 2010.
My work has been featured on the official web-sites of: Wired magazine (http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/02/speculative- realism-as-philosophy-fiction/), The New York Times (http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/stone-links- consider-the-octopus/), The National Gallery of Art (http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object- page.354.html)
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Areas of Specialty:
Continental Philosophy Heidegger, Foucault, Wittgenstein Connections between Analytic and Continental Philosophy
Education:
Ph.D., Emory University 1999
B.A., Northwestern University 1992