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ALISTAIR WELCHMAN CONTACT INFORMATION Associate Professor of Philosophy Tel: +1 (210) 458 7215 Department of Philosophy and Classics Email: alistair dot welchman at utsa dot edu University of Texas at San Antonio Office: MH 4.05.30M One UTSA Circle San Antonio, TX 78249 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND 1998 University of Sussex MSc (Distinction) Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems 1996 University of Warwick PhD Philosophy 1990 University or Warwick MA Continental Philosophy 1988 Christ Church, Oxford BA (Hons.) Philosophy, Politics, Economics FULL-TIME ACADEMIC POSITIONS University of Texas at San Antonio, Professor of Philosophy 2019-present University of Texas at San Antonio, Associate Professor of Philosophy 2013-2018 University of Texas at San Antonio, Assistant Professor of Philosophy 2007-2012 PART-TIME ACADEMIC POSITIONS University of Texas at San Antonio (Fall 2006 – Spring 2007) Adjunct Assistant Professor University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX (Fall 2005 – Fall 2006) Adjunct Assistant Professor Trinity University, San Antonio, TX (Spring Semester 2005, Spring Semester 1999) Adjunct Assistant Professor Austin Community College, Austin TX (Fall 2004 – Fall 2006) Adjunct Associate Professor University of Greenwich, London, UK (Spring Term 2004) Adjunct Lecturer University of Warwick, Coventry, UK (1995-6) Teaching Assistant University of Madison-Wisconsin, Madison WI (1992-3) Research Assistant to Professor Ivan Soll OTHER POSITIONS 2001 –2004. NeoGeo New Media GmbH (Hamburg, Germany). Technical Lead, CyberSmart systems. User Modeling; Human Centered Computing. Genetic Algorithms; Scheduling systems. 1999 – 2001. Applications Development Consultant. Amedis Pharmaceuticals Ltd (Cambridge, United Kingdom). Genetic Algorithms; Neural Networks AWARDS, HONORS AND GRANTS 1. UTSA Library. $1000. Adopt a Free Textbook. Awarded 05/17/2018. https://lib.utsa.edu/services/faculty/open-educational-resources/textbook-heroes 2. TexasHumanities. $7585. Philosophy for Children Initiative in San Antonio for pre-k Children. With graduate student, Rocky Conrad. [Not funded] 3. F&A Grant. $651.47. Schopenhauer and Feminism. With Prof. Paul Adoin, ENG, and Catherine Hauer, UTSA MA Alumna. Awarded 02/16/2018. 4. Research Course Release (Fall 2015, Spring 2017) 5. Faculty Development Leave (Spring 2016) 6. Quantitative Literacy Course Development Grant for PHI 1043 Critical Thinking $7,500 (2013-14) 7. Provost’s Core Values Initiative Fund Award (Spring 2010) 8. Outstanding Research Mentor Award, Honors College, UTSA (2007) 9. Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (UK) Studentship Award (1997-8) 10. Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Stipendium (1996) 11. University Exchange Fellowship, University of Madison-Wisconsin (1992-3) 12. University Grant Awards, University of Warwick (1991-2; 1990-91; 1989-90) SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY BOOKS 1. Cambridge Guide to The World as Will and Representation (Cambridge University Press: under contract, forthcoming 2020) [with Judith Norman] 2. Arthur Schopenhauer The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2, translated by Alistair Welchman and Judith Norman and edited by Alistair Welchman, Judith Norman and Christopher Janaway (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018) http://admin.cambridge.org/ck/academic/subjects/philosophy/philosophy-texts/schopenhauer-world- will-and-representation-volume-2 Reviewed by Dale Snow (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews) https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/the-world-as-will-and-representation-volume-2/ 3. Alistair Welchman (ed.) Politics of Religion/Religions of Politics (Dordrecht: Springer 2014) Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, Vol. 8, XIII, 191 p. DOI: 10.1007/978-94- 017-9448-0 http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/religious+studies/book/978-94-017-9447-3 4. Arthur Schopenhauer The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1, edited and translated by Alistair Welchman, Judith Norman and Christopher Janaway (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010) http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/philosophy-texts/schopenhauer-world- will-and-representation-volume-1 Review: Sandra Shapshay (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews) https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/the-world-as-will-and-representation-volume-1/ 5. Salomon Maimon Essay on Transcendental Philosophy, edited and translated by Alistair Welchman, Nick Midgley, Henry Somers-Hall and Merton Reglitz (London & New York: Bloomsbury 2010) http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/essay-on-transcendental-philosophy-9781441113849/ 6. Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman (eds) The New Schelling (London & New York: Bloomsbury 2004) http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-new-schelling-9780826469427/ REFEREED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS In Preparation 1. ‘Seeing Things: Schopenhauer’s Kant-Critique and Direct Realism’ in Welchman and Norman (eds) The Cambridge Critical Guide to The World as Will and Representation (Cambridge University Press: under contract, forthcoming 2020) 2. ‘Irrational Ravings and Skeptical Woes -- A Revival of Madness’ with undergraduate student Nathanial Stagg (Targets: History of Philosophy Quarterly, British Journal for the History of Philosophy) 3. ‘Schopenhauer and Compassion’ (Targets: History of Philosophy Quarterly, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Schopenhauer Jahrbuch) 4. ‘Deleuze, Badiou and Novelty’ (Target: Angelaki, parrhesia) 5. ‘Schopenhauer and Feminism’ [with Catherine Hauer] (Target: Schopenhauer Jahrbuch) 6. ‘Schopenhauer was (very probably) not a Panpsychist: a rebuttal of Skrbina’ (Targets: History of Philosophy Quarterly, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Schopenhauer Jahrbuch) 7. ‘The irreducibility of the second person’ Submitted 1. ‘Schopenhauer and Schelling’ in Robert Wicks (ed) Oxford Handbook of Schopenhauer (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [with Judith Norman] Published 1. ‘Schelling and Schopenhauer on Evil’ in Douglas Hedley, Chad Meister and Charles Taliaferro (eds.) The History of Evil in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Vol. IV of Chad Meister and Charles Taliaferro (eds.) The History of Evil (London: Routledge 2018), pp. 150-166 https://www.routledge.com/The-History-of-Evil-in-the-Eighteenth-and-Nineteenth-Centuries- 17001900/Hedley/p/book/9781138236837 2. ‘Schopenhauer’s Two Metaphysics’ in Sandra Shapshay (ed) Palgrave Schopenhauer Handbook (London: Palgrave-Macmillan 2017), pp. 129-149. https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319629469 3. ‘Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy’ in Jens Timmerman and Sacha Golob (eds) The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017), pp. 448-58. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/philosophy/history-philosophy/cambridge-history- moral-philosophy 4. ‘Eternity in Kant and Post-Kantian European Thought’ in Yitzhak Melamed (ed.) Eternity: A History (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016), pp. 179-225. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/eternity-9780199781867 5. ‘Metafisica e moralità. Il Male in Schelling e in Schopenhauer’ in Alessandro Medri (ed) La Filosofia tedesca dell’ottocento: Sentieri e percorsi all’alba del XX secolo (Turino: Limina Mentis 2015), pp. 133- 146. 6. ‘Deleuze and Schopenhauer’ in Craig Lundy and Daniella Voss (eds) At the Edges of Thought: Deleuze and Post-Kantian Philosophy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press [Oxford University Press in the US], May 2015), pp. 213-252. http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748694624 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/at-the-edges-of-thought-9780748694631 7. ‘Deleuze and the Enaction of Nonsense’ in Tom Froese and Massimiliano Cappuccio (eds) Enactive Cognition at the Edge of Sense-Making: Making Sense of Non-Sense (Palgrave Macmillan 2014), pp. 238-265 [with William Short and Wilson Shearin] ISBN: 9781137363350 http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/enactive-cognition-at-the-edge-of-sense-making-massimiliano- cappuccio/?k=9781137363350 8. ‘Introduction’ to Alistair Welchman (ed.) Politics of Religion/Religions of Politics (Dordrecht: Springer 2014), pp. 1-10. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9448-0_1 http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/religious+studies/book/978-94-017-9447-3 9. ‘Border Sovereignty’ in Alistair Welchman (ed.) Politics of Religion/Religions of Politics (Dordrecht: Springer 2014), pp. 51-68. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9448-0_4 http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/religious+studies/book/978-94-017-9447-3 10. ‘Schelling’s Moral Argument for a Metaphysics of Contingency’ in Emilio Carlo Corriero and Andrea Dezi (eds) Nature and Realism in Schelling’s Philosophy (aAccedemia Press, Turin, Italy 2013), pp. 27-54. http://books.google.com/books?id=W0OaAgAAQBAj 11. ‘The Art of Willing: The Impact of Kant’s Aesthetics on Schopenhauer’s Conception of the Will’ in Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca and Margit Ruffing (eds.) Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht (Berlin: de Gruyter 2013), Band 5: Wissenschaft, Mathematik, Naturphilosophie, pp. 627-38. http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/119353 12. ‘Heidegger among the Robots’ Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring/Printemps 2013), pp. 229-249 DOI: 10.5840/symposium201317112 13. ‘The Question of Romanticism’ in Alison Stone (ed.) The Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy: Volume 5—The Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh University Press/Columbia University Press 2011), pp. 47-68 [with Judith Norman] 14. ‘Unacknowledged Harms’ Global Virtue Ethics Review Vol. 6, No. 2 (2011), pp. 20-54 15. ‘Creating the Past: Schelling’s Ages of the World’