Nicholas Davey Explained

Region:	Western philosophy
Era:	21st century Philosophy
Nicholas Davey
Birth Date:	8 August 1950
School Tradition:	Continental
Institutions:	University of Dundee
Main Interests:	hermeneutics, aesthetics, contemporary European philosophy, Buddhist Thought
Education:	University of Sussex MA and D.Phil History of Ideas, University of York BA History and Philosophy, University of Tübingen
Alma Mater:	University of Sussex

Nicholas Davey (born 8 August 1950) is a British philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Dundee. He is known for his expertise in aesthetics, hermeneutics, and his work on Hans-Georg Gadamer.^{[1] [2]} Davey has also played a leading role in founding several research groups and institutes at the University of Dundee, which include Theoros, Hermeneutica Scotia (research groups), and the university's Arts and Humanities Research Institute.^[3]

Davey is an active member of the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy.^[4]

Books

• Unfinished Worlds. Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and Gadamer. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
• Unquiet Understanding: Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics. New York: SUNY Press, 2007.

Book chapters

• "Hermeneutics, Structuralism, and Poststructuralism." In The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics, edited by Jeff Malpas and Hans-Helmut Gander, pp. 600–611. New York: Routledge, 2017.
• “Hermeneutics, Art and Transcendence.” In Gadamer’s Hermeneutics and the Art of Conversation (International Studies in Hermeneutics and Phenomenology), edited by A. Wiercinski, pp. 371–382. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2011.
• “Getting the Measure: Language and Reasoning in Philosophical Hermeneutics.” In Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, pp. 123 –142. Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2011.
• “Philosophy Research and the Quest for the Unpredictable.” In The Public Value of the Humanities, edited by Jonathan Bate, pp. 303–312. Bloomsbury Academic, 2011. [see reviews in THES 24 March 2011, p. 29 and ''Financial Times'', 24 February 2012].
• “Language and Reason in Philosophical Hermeneutics”, Studia Humanitatis: Ars Hermeneutica, 2011, 61-84
• “Philosophical Hermeneutics, An Education for All Seasons”, in Education, Dialogue and Hermeneutics, ed. by Paul Fairfield (London: Continuum, 2011), pp. 39–60.
• “Truth, Method and Transcendence.” In Consequences of Hermeneutics, ed. by Malpas and Zabala, pp. 25–44. Illinois: North Western University Press, 2010.
• “Written in Stone; Reflections on Word and Image." In Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, edited by Gunter Figal. Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2009.
• Essays on “Baumgarten,” “Aesthetic Relativism” and "Gilles Deleuze." In Blackwell Companion for Aesthetics, pp. 234–238. London: Wiley-Blackwells, 2009.
• "Hermeneutical Application: A Dialogical Approach to the Art Theory Question." Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, edited by Gunter Figal, pp. 93–107.Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2008.

Articles

• "Critical Excess and the Reasonableness of Interpretation", Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik (2013).
• "Aesthetic Reasoning: A Hermeneutic Approach", Nordic Journal for Aesthetics (2012/2013).
• "Philosophical Hermeneutics, Art and the Language of Art", Aesthetic Pathways, 1:1 (2010), 4–29.
• "Hume i Nietzsche o jazni i tozsamosc", trans. by Dawid Misztal, Nowa Krytyka, 20-21 (2006), 149–172.
• "Lest we Forget: The Question of Being and Philosophical Hermeneutics", Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 40:3 (2009), 239–254.
• "Editorial", Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 40:3 (2009), 234–238.
• "On the Polity of Experience: Towards a Hermeneutics of Attentiveness", Renascence, 56:4 (2004), 217–234.
• "Aesthetic F(r)ictions", Journal of Visual Art Practice, 4:2&3 (2005), 135–149.
• "Sitting Uncomfortably: Gadamer's Approach to Portraiture", Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 34:3 (2003), 231–246.
• “Arts Enigma: Adorno and Iser On Interpretation”, Existentia, 12:1-2 (2003), 155–168.
• “Hermeneutics and the Challenge of Writing: Gadamer and Cixous on Speaking and Writing", Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology”, 33:3,(2002), 299–316.

External links

• Nicholas Davey at University of Dundee
• Nicholas Davey at Google Scholar
• Christopher Watkin on Davey's book, Unfinished Worlds

Notes and References

1. Book: Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics. Malpas. Jeff. Routledge. 2015. 978-0415644587. London. 504, 506, 512, 515, 533, 539, 540, 545, 549.
2. Zabala. Santiago. 2011. Review of Unquiet Understanding. Symposium. 15.
3. Web site: University of Dundee Faculty Profile. January 4, 2019.
4. Web site: Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy. January 4, 2019.