Lee Braver, Ph.D.
Department Chair,
Associate Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Northwestern University;
M.A., Ph.D. Emory University;
330.569.5146
braverlj@hiram.edu
Website: http://hiram.academia.edu/LeeBraver
Education | Courses | Publications
Education
M.a., Ph.D., Emory University, Philosophy , 1999
B.A., Northwestern University, Philosophy Major, 1992
Academic Interests
Nineteenth and twentieth century continental philosophy, history of philosophy, connections between analytic and continental philosophy, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Foucault.
Courses
Advanced seminars taught:
Being and Time (regularly)
Wittgenstein
Kierkegaard
Foucault (regularly)
Later Heidegger (regularly)
Being and Nothingness
Postmodernism
Phenomenology (regularly)
Derrida
Mid-range classes taught on:
Existentialism
Early Modern Philosophy (annually)
Embodiment
Introduction to Cognitive Science (team-taught with a Computer Science Professor)
Nineteenth Century Philosophy (regularly)
Ancient Philosophy
Ethics
Representative Publications
- A Thing of This World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism (Northwestern University Press, 2007).
- Heidegger’s Later Writings: A Reader’s Guide (Continuum Books, 2009).
- Groundless Grounds: A Study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger (MIT Press, 2012).
- “Never Mind: Thinking of Subjectivity in the Dreyfus-McDowell Debate.” In
Is the Mental a Myth? Ed. Julian Schear. New York: Routledge, 2011. - “Analyzing Heidegger: The Analytic Receptions of Heidegger’s Work.” In Interpreting Heidegger. Ed. Daniel Dahlstrom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- “Davidson’s Reading of Gadamer: Triangulation, Conversation, and the Analytic-Continental Divide.” In Dialogues with Davidson. Ed. Jeff Malpas. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2011.
- “Interview with Lee Braver.” In Post-Continental Voices: Selected Interviews. Ed. Paul Ennis. Winchester, UK: zerO Books, 2010.
- “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