The program for the Central in a few weeks does not give correct information for the Author Meets Critics group discussion for Lee Braver's A Thing of this World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism.
On the APA website it currently, and erroneously, reads:
GII-4. Society for Realist-Antirealist Discussion: Lee J. Braver, A Think of This World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Chair: Mark Okrent (Bates College)
Critic: Samuel C. Wheeler III (University of Connecticut)
Author: Lee J. Braver (Hiram College)
What were they thinking?!?! This not only neglects to mention two of the other critics (one of whom is me) but it also gets the title of the book wrong. Here's the correct version!
Central APA 2011, Thursday 3/31/2011
5:30-7:30 PM
Society for Realist-Antirealist Discussion: Lee J. Braver, A Thing of This World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism
Session Chair: Mark Okrent, Professor of Philosophy, Bates College
Panelists:
Jon Cogburn, Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, Louisiana State University
Professor Robert D'Amico, Department of Philosophy, University of Florida
Samuel C. Wheeler III, Professor of Philosophy, Director of Graduate Studies in Philosophy University of Connecticut
Response:
Lee Braver, Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, Hiram College
Bios:
Jon Cogburn has a Ph.D from The Ohio State Unversity (1999) and currently Associate Professor at Louisiana State University. He has published widely on logical revision, Dummettian anti-realism, and inferentialism more broadly, as well as on the aesthetics and metaphysics of video games.
Robert D'Amico teaches philosophy at University of Florida and works in the areas of history of philosophy and philosophy of social science. He has recently published "Disease and the Concept of Supervenience" in Establishing Medical Reality (Springer, 2007), "Historicism" in A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, (Blackwell, 2009) and co-authored "'Counting As' a Bridge Principle'" forthcoming in Philosophy of Social Science.
Samuel C. Wheeler III got his PhD from Princeton in 1970. He publishes articles on Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Ancient Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Literary Theory, and Derrida’s relationship to analytic philosophy. His book, Deconstruction as Analytic Philosophy, was published by Stanford in 2000. His current projects include an article on the semantics of comparative adjectives and a book arguing for a Davidsonian position in metaphysics that is neither realist nor anti-realist.
Lee Braver is the author of 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), and Groundless Grounds: A Study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger (MIT Press, 2012), as well as a number of articles on Heidegger, Davidson, Gadamer, and Wittgenstein. Much of his work focuses on creating a dialogue between analytic and continental philosophy.
I'm kind of nervous about this thing. As I've been typing up my remarks it just becomes clear how little critical I have to say about what is a great book. "Author meets Fan" would be a better description. . . I think I'm going to depart a little bit from the normal way these things go and spend a substantial amount of my time giving some concrete illustrations of what is so great about the book, as opposed to just finding one thing to obsessively kvetch about.
I'm really excited about the rest of the panel too. D'Amico and Wheeler are great, and I actually taught Okrent's really fantastic book Rational Animals last semester and also did a reading group with John Protevi on Okrent versus Harman's Heidegger [I think we concluded that Herman Phillipse is right that there is no univocal "problem of being" in Heidegger, and that Okrent (if one includes the recent book!) and Harman most faithfully and fruitfully develop two of the five distinct problematics that Phillipse locates].
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