Professor Nicholas Davey
Contact Details
E-Mail: j.r.n.davey@dundee.ac.uk
Telephone: (01382) 385199
Room Location: 3.20, Tower Extension
Biography
Professor Nicholas Davey received his B.A. in History and Philosophy at the University of York, and both his M.A. and D. Phil in the History of Ideas at the University of Sussex. He also studied at the University of Tubingen.
He has lectured at the City University of London, Manchester University, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, and at the University of Dundee, where he is currently Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the School of Humanities.
Nicholas is a member of the International Symposium for Hermeneutics and is President of the British Society for Phenomenology. He currently serves on the Philosophy RAE panel and is an academic adviser for various publishers.
Research & Teaching
Professor Davey's overlapping areas of philosophical research involve the philosophical development of contemporary hermeneutics (the works of Gadamer, Vattimo and Iser), contemporary European aesthetics (the nature of meaning and interpretation in the arts), and the philosophy of Nietzsche (the connections between philology, language and interpretation in his writings).
Nicholas Davey teaches a variety of graduate and post-graduate courses on hermeneutics, aesthetics, Hegel and Gadamer. He has a particular interest in inter-disciplinary teaching and counts as two of his major achievements the building of the B.A. scheme in Art and Aesthetics at Cardiff and the Art and Philosophy B.A. in Dundee.
Professor Davey is currently working on Seeing Otherwise: Gadamer, Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (SUNY). This book presents a major study of Gadamer's aesthetic theory and contains major new research material. He is also engaged with three articles on Baumgarten, Deleuze and Relativism for Blackwells Companion to Aesthetics.
Publications
Nicholas Davey has over a hundred published items concerning hermeneutics, aesthetics and Modern European Philosophy.
Recent Books
- Unquiet Understanding: Gadamer's Philosophical Understanding, Albany, State University of New York Press, 2006. To order a copy: email the publisher or visit www.sunypress.edu
Recent Chapters and Articles
- "Hermeneutical Application: A Dialogical Approach to the Art/Theory Question", International Hermeneutics Yearbook (ed.) Gunter Figal, Tubingen, J.C.B.Mohr 2008.
- "Hermeneutics" in Dermot Moran (ed.), Twentieth Century Philosophy, London, Routledge, 2007.
- "Aesthetics", in Constantin von Boundas, Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
- "Reflections on Openness", Irish Philosophy Association Year Book, 2007. Download the paper.
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