| Academic Education: University of Michigan, Philosophy, 1983-1988, Ph.D. University of Michigan, Psychology, 1987-1989, M.A. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, Philosophy, 1979-1982, M.A. (cum laude). Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, Philosophy and Psychology, 1975-1979, B.A. (cum laude). Academic Teaching Experience: Siena Heights University (Michigan), online teaching, 2006-present. Johnson State University (Vermont), online teaching, 2006-present. Haifa University (Israel), Lecturer, 1993-present (one semester a year). Hebrew University (Jerusalem), Lady Davis Fellowship, 1991-1992. Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas), Assistant Professor, 1989-1993. The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan), Teaching Assistant, 1983-1989. Major Presentations and Workshops: "Our Vision for the Individual, Our Vision for Society," 9th International Conference on Philosophical Practice, Carloforte, italy, July 2008. ''Philosophical Counseling'' (a 2-day workshop), University of Venice, Italy, June 2008. ''What is Philosophical Practice?'' Philosophy as Medicine - 1st International Conference, Medellin, Colombia, April 2008. ''Philosophical Practice,'' lecture and workshop at the University of Barcelona, Spain, March 2008. ''Philosophical Practice and Transformation,'' 1st International Convention of Philosophical Practice,'' Lima, Peru, December 2007. ''Awakening Dormant Fountains of Plenitude,'' ASEPRAF (Spanish association for philosophical practice), Madrid, Spain, September 2007. ''Going Out of the Cave,'' ASEPRAF (Spanish association for philosophical practice), Madrid, Spain, May 2007. ''Philosophical Counseling as a Search for Wisdom,'' ScuolaSuperioredi Counseling Filosofico, Rome, Italy, May 2007. ''Philosophical Practice - Past, Present, and Future,'' I EncuentroNacional de Pr?cticaFilos?fica, Universidad San Marcos, Lima, Peru, February 2007. ''Philosophical Counseling'' (a 2-day workshop), University of Venice, Italy, January 2007. ''Grand Philosophical Practice and Small Philosophical Practice,'' 8th International Conference for Philosophical Practice, Seville, Spain, April 2006. ''What is Philosophical in Philosophical Counseling?'' Phronesis Association for Philosophical Practice, Rome, Italy, February 26, 2005. ''Philosophically Charged Psychotherapy,'' with Mary Fox, Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, August 18th, 1997. ''Philosophy as a Search for Wisdom,'' Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, August 13th, 1996. ''The Conscious and the Unconscious'', the 3rd Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science (invited), Konstanz University, Germany, May 19th, 1995. ''What is Philosophical Self-Investigation?'' The First international Conference on Philosophical Counseling, University of BC, Vancouver, Canada, July 9th, 1994. ''Who Are the Philosophical Counselors?'' American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, December 1993. ''What is Philosophical Counseling?'' Tel Aviv University, Israel, March 1992. ''A Bergsonian Approach to Free Will,'' American Phil. Association, Chicago, April 1991. ''Neural Correlates of Visual Phenomenology,'' Consciousness Within Science First International Conference, San Francisco, CA, February 18, 1990. ''Non-Conscious 'Vision' in Normal Humans: Evidence for Tectal Mediation,'' Society for Neuroscience 19th Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, October 30, 1989. Activities and Positions in Philosophical Practice: Honoray member of ASEPRAF, the Spanish association for philosophical practice, since 2007. Honorary member of PHRONESIS (Italian association for philosophical practice) since 2006. Initiator and co-organizer of First International Retreat of Contemplative Philosophy, Chipiona, Spain, June 2005. Member of the editorial board of the journal Philosophical Practice since 2004. Member of the editorial board of the journal Practical Philosophy since 2000. ''Mentor'' of the American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy since 1996. Board member of the American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy, 1994-7. Initiator and Co-organizer of The First International Conference on Philosophical Counseling, Centre for Applied Ethics, U. of British Columbia, Canada, July 8-12, 1994. Editorial board member of the German journal Zeitschrift fur Philosophische Praxis, 1993-6. Practicing philosophical counselor since 1992. Books: Comprendere la Vita: La consuelzafilosofica come ricerza della sagezza (In Italian: Understanding Life: Philosophical Counseling as a Search for Wisdom), Apogeo, 2005. Lu: Internal Journals (In Hebrew), Astrolog Publishing House, 2004. Essays on Philosophical Counseling, Lanham: University Press of America, 1995. (An edited anthology with second editor Maria Tillmanns). Articles: ''Against Compositionality: The Case of Adjectives,'' Philosophical Studies, 55: 1989. ''Dis-Phenomenalism: An Alternative to the Adverbial Theory,'' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 50: 1990. ''Bergson and the Hegemony of Language,'' Southern Journal of Philosophy, 28: 1990. ''Between Pre-Determination and Arbitrariness: A Bergsonian Approach to Free Will,'' Southern Journal of Philosophy, 29:1991. ''The Amazing Predictive Powers of Folk Psychology,'' Australoasian Journal of Philosophy, 70:1992. ''How to be a Scientifically Respectable 'Property Dualist','' with second author Niall Shanks, Journal of Mind and Behavior, 13:1992. ''On Thinking Clearly and Distinctly,'' Metaphilosophy, 23:1992. ''The Concept of Man as Reflected in Three Approaches to Education,'' Sachish: Issues in Special Education and Rehabilitation, 7:1992. ''Applied Phenomenology in Philosophical Counseling,'' International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 7:1992. ''The Combinatorial-Connectionist Debate and the Pragmatics of Adjectives,'' Pragmatics and Cognition, 1:1993. ''Using Analytic Philosophy in Philosophical Counseling,'' Journal of Applied Philosophy, 10:1993. ''What Neuropsychology Can Tell Us about Consciousness,'' Philosophy of Science, 60: 1993. ''Phenomenological Tools to Facilitate Self-Change in Philosophical Counseling,'' Agora: Zeitschrift fir Philosophische Praxis, 11-12: 1993. ''A New Challenge for the Physicalist,'' Philosophia, 24: 1994. ''Is Philosophical Counseling that Different from Psychotherapy?,'' Zeitschrift fur Philosophische Praxis, 1: 1994. ''A Conceptual Framework for Philosophical Counseling,'' in: Lahav and Tillmanns (eds.), Essays on Philosophical Counseling, Lanham: University Press of America, 1995. ''What is Philosophical in Philosophical Counseling?,'' Journal of Applied Philosophy, 13: 1996. ''Philosophical Counseling and Taoism: Wisdom and Lived Philosophical Understanding,'' Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 23: 1996. ''The Conscious and the Non-Conscious,'' in M. Carrier and P.Machamer (eds.), Mindscapes: Philosophy, Science, and the Mind, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 1997. ''Philosophical Counseling and Existential Therapy: On the possibility of a dialogue between the fields,'' Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, 9: 1997. ''Philosophical Counseling as a Quest for Wisdom,'' Practical Philosophy, 1: 2001. ''The Efficacy of Philosophical Counseling: A First Outcome Study,'' Practical Philosophy, 4: 2001. ''Transcending the Unconscious: Philosophical counseling sessions with Arthur Schopenhauer,'' (written with Eli Eilon), in: Peter Raabe (ed.), Philosophical Counseling and the Unconscious, Trivum 2005. ''Philosophical Practice as Contemplative Philosophy,'' Practical Philosophy, 8: 2006. ''Beyond Our Perimeter,'' Practical Philosophy, 9: 2008. ''What Philosophical Counseling Can Learn from Buber,'' forthcoming in a collection of articles on Martin Buber 's ''Guilt and Guilt Feelings,'' by Professor Andrea Poma, Apogeo Press. ''Philosophical Practice - Have We Gone Far Enough?'' forthcoming in Practical Philosophy. |
| CURRICULUM VITAE Ran Lahav |