David Kolb
Department
of Philosophy 841
W 36th Avenue
Bates
College, 73 Campus Avenue Eugene
OR 97405
Lewiston,
Maine 04240 USA Tel:
(541) 345 3110
Tel:
(207) 786-6308 Email:
dkolb@bates.edu, davkolb@gmail.com
Fax:
(207) 786-6123 http://www.dkolb.org
Education:
1972 Ph.D.,
Yale University. Dissertation: "Conceptual Pluralism and Rationality"
1970 M.
Phil., Yale University
1965 M.A.,
philosophy, Fordham University
1963 B.A.,
Fordham University, summa cum laude, double major, classics and philosophy
Academic Honors:
2004 Douglas
Engelbart Award for best research paper, ACM Hypertext Conference 2004
1999-2000 Charles
Phillips Fellowship
1989 Charles
A. Dana Professor of Philosophy
1983-84 Fulbright
Lectureship, Nagoya, Japan
1982-83 National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers
1976-1982 Danforth
Associate
1970 Tew
Prize in Philosophy, Yale University
1969-72 Kent
Fellowship (Danforth Foundation)
1967 Scholarship
for summer Asian studies, University of Pennsylvania
1964 Licentiate
in Philosophy, summa cum laude
Professional Experience:
2004
on Charles
A. Dana Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Bates College
1989-2004 Charles
A. Dana Professor of Philosophy, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
1999 Guest
Researcher, School of Architecture, Lund, Sweden (autumn only)
1983-9 Professor
of Philosophy, Bates College
1983-4 Fulbright
Lecturer, Nanzan University and Aichi Kenritsu University, Nagoya, Japan.
1980-82 Chair,
Division of the Humanities, Bates College.
1977-91 Chair,
Department of Philosophy and Religion, Bates College
1977-83 Associate
Professor of Philosophy, Bates College
1972-77 Assistant
Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago
1971 Teaching
Assistant, Yale University
1969 Intern,
Department of City Planning, City of Baltimore, Maryland
1968-69 Instructor
(part-time), Mt. St. Agnes College and Woodstock College, Baltimore
1964-67 Instructor,
Fordham College, Bronx, New York
Publications:
Books:
The Critique of Pure
Modernity: Hegel, Heidegger, and After. University of
Chicago Press, 1987. (Chinese translation, 2004)
Postmodern Sophistications:
Philosophy, Architecture, and Tradition. University of
Chicago Press, 1990.
New Perspectives on Hegel's
Philosophy of Religion. SUNY Press, 1992.
(edited)
Socrates in the Labyrinth:
Hypertext, Argument, Philosophy. Eastgate
Systems, 1994. (hypertext essay collection)
Sprawling Places.
University of Georgia Press, 2008. Also a book-length hypertext at http://www.dkolb.org/sprawlingplaces.
Essays and Articles:
ÒPublic
Exposure: Architecture and Interpretation,Ó in Wolkenkuckucksheim - Cloud-Cuckoo-Land – Vozdushnyizamok, July
2008 (online journal).
ÒThe
Revenge of the Page,Ó Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 2008.
ÒMaking
Revision Hyper-Visible,Ó Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 2008.
"Borders
and Centers in an Age of Mobility," in a special issue of Wolkenkuckucksheim - Cloud-Cuckoo-Land
– Vozdushnyizamok 2007 (online journal) honoring Karsten Harries.
"Real
Places in Virtual Spaces," Nordic
Journal of Architectural Research (Nordisk Arkitekturforskning), 2006 no.
3, 69-77.
"The
Necessities of Hegel's Logics," in a volume of essays on Hegel's Logic
edited by Angelica Nuzzo, forthcoming.
"Other
Spaces for Spatial Hypertext," in the <cite>Journal of Digital
Information</cite>, special issue on spatial hypertext, forthcoming.
"Putting
it Together" Zapp Architetcture,
Columbia University, forthcoming
Entry on "Existentialism"
in Mitcham, Carl. 2005. Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and
Ethics. Detroit: Macmillan
Reference USA.
"New
Dimensions and Meta-Questions" A response to Ted Nelson's "Commentary
on Kolb" New Journal of Hypermedia
and Multimedia special issue on scholarly hypertext, vol. 2, no. 1, 33-38.
"Association
and Argument: Hypertext In and Around the Writing Process.". New Journal of Hypermedia and Multimedia
special issue on scholarly hypertext, vol. 2, no. 1, 7-26.
"Oh
Pioneers! Bodily Reformation Amid Daily Life." Interfaces no. 21/22, vol. 2: 383-398
"Twin
Media: Hypertext Structure Under Pressure," Proceedings of the 2004 ACM
Hypertext Conference.
"Beyond
the Pale: The Spectre of Formal Universality," The Owl of Minerva 36:1 (2003–04), 15-30.
Entries
on "Architecture," "Modernity," "Heterotopias,"
"Architectonic," "Striated/Smooth Space" for the Edinburgh
Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, forthcoming.
"Authenticity
with Teeth: Positing Process," forthcoming in a book, Philosophical Romanticism;
"Impure
Postmodernity - Philosophy Today," preface to the Chinese translation of The Critique of Pure Modernity.
"The
Logic of Language Change," Presidential Address for the Hegel Society of
America, forthcoming in a volume from SUNY Press.
"Coming
Down from the Trees: Metaphysics and the History of Classification," Continental Philosophy Review, vol. 35,
no. 2, June 2002, 161-183
"Hegelian
Buddhist Hypertextual Media Inhabitation, or, Criticism in the Age of
Electronic Immersion," in Adrift in the Technological Matrix, Bucknell Review 46.2, Autumn 2002,
90-108.
"Et
blandet selskab: Laesekundskaber inden for trykte tekster og hypertekst pŒ Žn
og samme tid," in Standart 4/5,
Copenhagen. (Danish translation of the talk "Ruminations in Mixed Company:
Literacy in Print and Hypertext Together")
"Why
Hegel? Why Now?" Introductory essay to the Hegel issue, Dialogue XXXIX (2000), 651-6. (with
Suzanne Foisy)
"Exposing
an English Speculative Word," The
Owl of Minerva, Fall 2000, xx.
"Learning
Places: Building Dwelling Thinking On-Line," Journal Of Philosophy Of Education, vol. 34, no. 1,Winter 2000,
121-133.
"Hypertext
as Subversive?" a hypertext essay, in Culture
Machine 2, 2000, http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk
"Genius
Fluxus: The Spirit of Change," Proceedings of a Conference on The Flux of
Place, forthcoming.
"The
Particular Logic of Modernity," Bulletin
of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, Nos. 41.42, 2000, 31-42.
"Hegel's
Architecture," in A Companion to
Hegel's Aesthetics, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
"Modernity's
Self-Justification," The Owl of
Minerva, vol. 30, no. 2, Spring 1999, 253-276.
"Collisions
and Interactions: Philosophical Reflections on CATAC '98," at the
conference on Cultural Attitudes toward Technology and Communication, London, August
1998. Available at http://www.bates.edu/~dkolb/catac-dk.html
"Four
Questions and a Funeral: Hegel on Spirit's Self-Division and New Life,"
Proceedings of a Colloquium on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, forthcoming.
"Steps
to the Futures," Proceedings of the Conference on Religion and Education
at the Millennium, forthcoming.
"The
Age of the List," in Algreen-Ussing, Gregers, et al, ed.. Urban Space and Urban Conservation as an
Aesthetic Problem. Rome: Accademica Danica, L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2000,
27-35.
"The
Spirit of Gravity: Architecture and Externality in Hegel," in Hegel and Aesthetics, SUNY Press, 2000,
83-96.
"Tradition
and Modernity in Architecture," in the Encyclopedia
of Aesthetics. Oxford Unversity Press, 1998.
"Circulation
and Constitution at the End of History,"in Endings: Questions of Memory in Hegel and Heidegger, ed. by Rebecca
Comay and John McCumber. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1999, 57-76.
"Filling
the Blanks," in Language Beyond
Postmodernism: Saying and Thinking in Gendlin's Philosophy, ed. by David
Michael Levin. Northwestern University Press, 1998, 65-83.
"Scholarly
Hypertext: Self-Represented Complexity," Hypertext '97, Association For Computing Machinery, 1997, 29-37.
"The
Final Name of God: Hegel on Determinate Religion," Hegel and the Tradition. University of Toronto Press, 1997,
162-175.
"Communicating
Across Links," Philosophical Perspectives
on Computer Mediated Communication, SUNY Press, 1996, 15-26.
"Circulation
Bound: Hegel and Heidegger on the State," Phenomenology, Interpretation, and Community, SUNY Press, 1996.
"Raising
Atlantis: The Later Heidegger and Contemporary Philosophy," From Phenomenology to Thought, Errancy, and
Desire, Kluwer, 1995, 55-69.
"Identity
and Judgment: Five Theses and a Program, "Nordisk Arkitekturforskning, Fall 1994, 37-40.
"Home
on the Range: Planning and Totality," Research
in Phenomenology, 1992, 3-11. (Reprinted in Nordisk Arkitekturforskning,
Spring 1995.)
"Heidegger
and Habermas on Criticism and Totality," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. LII, no. 2, 1992,
683-693.
"What
is Open and What is Closed in the Philosophy of Hegel?" Philosophical Topics, vol. 19, no. 2,
Fall 1991, 29-50.
"Heidegger
at 100, in America," Journal of the History of Ideas, 1991, 140-151.
"Criticism
and the Formless Center," in a forthcoming book on Technology and Culture,
University of South Florida.
"Before
Beyond Function," Proceedings of the Conference on Hegel and Architecture,
School of Architecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, forthcoming.
"Socrates
in the Labyrinth," a linear version of one hypertext essay from the above
collection, in Hyper/Text/Theory
Johns Hopkins Press, 1994, 323-344.
"Call
for Submission Recycled," a hypertext, in Perforations 4.
"Postmodern
Sophistications" Postmodernism on
Trial, A/D Profile, London: Academy Editions,1990, 13-19.
"Haughty
and Humble Ironies," Annals of
Scholarship, vi, 1989, .
"American
Individualism: Does it Exist?," Nanzan
Review of American Studies, vi, 1984, 21-45.
"Pythagoras
Bound: Limit and Unlimited in Plato's Philebus," Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1984, 497-512.
"Dialectic
& Phenomenology: Heidegger's Lectures on Hegel's Phenomenology of
Spirit," The Owl of Minerva,
1982.
"Heidegger
on the Limits of Science," Journal
of the British Society for Phenomenology, January 1983, 50-64.
"Hegel
and Heidegger as Critics," The
Monist, 1981, 481-499.
"On
the Objective and Subjective Grounding of Knowledge," translation, with
introduction and notes, of an essay by the Neo-Kantian Paul Natorp, Journal of the British Society for
Phenomenology, 1981, 245-261.
"Language
and Metalanguage in Aquinas," Journal
of Religion, 1981, 428-432.
"A
Place Without a Form," Proceedings of the Fifteenth Heidegger Conference,
1981.
"Socrates
and Stories," Spring, 1981,
177-184.
"Sellars
on the Measure of All Things," Philosophical
Studies, 1979, 381-400.
"Ontological
Priorities: A Critique of the Announced Goals of Descriptive Metaphysics,"
Metaphilosophy, 1975, 238-258.
"Time
and the Timeless in Greek Thought," Philosophy
East-West, 1974, 137-143.
Interviews:
"Ma
tu come scrivi col computer: Fra rete e ipertesti: scrittori esperti,"
interview published in Domenico Fiormonte and Ferdinanda Cremascoli, Manuale di scrittura (Turin: Bollati
Boringhieri, 1998).
"An
Analysis of the concept of hypertext," an interview with Italian public
television 's Mediamente, RAI, Rome,
October, 1997. Available at
http://www.mediamente.rai.it/english/bibliote/intervis/k/kolb.htm
"Socrates
Apology," essay/interview in Seulemonde
(University of South Florida, Web journal; the essay is at
http://www.bates.edu/~dkolb/seulmonde/Apology.html), Spring 1995.
Book Reviews:
Heidegger's Topology:
Being, Place, by Jeff Malpas, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Online
at http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=9963.
How Images Think,
by Ron Burnett, forthcoming in Tekka.
The New Media Reader, edited
by Montfort and Wardrup-Fruin. Computers
and the Humanities 38 (2004) 339-41.
Architectural Body,
by Arakawa and Madeline Gins, for Continental
Philosophy Review
Another Modernism?: Form,
Content and Meaning of the new Housing Architecture of Hanoi,
by Tran Hoi Anh, in Nordisk
Arkitekturforskning, forthcoming.
Substance or Context: A
Study of the Concept of Place, by Wang
Jun-Yang , in Nordisk Arkitekturforskning,
1995:3, 123-127, and a second review in Arkitectur 1995:7, 62-64.
Freedom, Truth, and
History: an Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy,
by Stephen Houlgate, The Owl of Minerva,
Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 1995.
The Modernist City:
an Anthropological Critique of Bras’lia, by James Holston, Visual Anthropology Review.
Hegel's Theory of Mental
Activity, by Willem A. deVries, Idealistic Studies, Fall 1992.
Hegel and Mass Death,
by Edith Wyschgrod, The Owl of Minerva,
Fall 1989.
Hegel, Heidegger, and the
Ground of History, by Michael Gillespie, Journal of the History of Philosophy,
January 1987, 569-571.
The Eclipse of the Self,
by Michael Zimmerman, Canadian
Philosophical Reviews, January 1985.
The Turning Point,
by Fritjof Capra, and The Reenchantment of the World, by Morris Berman, Commonweal, June 18, 1982.
Naturalism and Ontology,
by Wilfrid Sellars, Philosophical Books,
April 1982, 108-111.
Toward a Philosophy of Zen
Buddhism, by T. Izutsu, Philosophy East-West, 1980, 540-542.
Plato: The Written and
Unwritten Doctrines, by J. N. Findlay, Ethics, 1976.
Criticism and the Growth of
Knowledge, ed. by Imre Lakatos, in Main Currents of Modern Thought, 1972.
Book Notes:
The Moral Order of a Suburb,
by M. P. Baumgartner, Ethics.
Relationship and Solitude,
by Maurice Natanson, Ethics, October
1988, 200.
Performances:
"Touring,"
a reading given at Hypertext 01, Aarhus, Denmark, August 2001.
Other:
Thirty
or so small journalistic articles and reviews of varying lengths concerning
computers and word processing, published in a newsletter, a computer magazine,
and the APA Newsletter on Computing in Philosophy.
Professional Talks:
ÒThe
Revenge of the Page,Ó and ÒMaking Revision Hyper-Visible,Ó at Hypertext 2008,
Pittsburgh, June 2008.
ÒHow
the Internet Changes Writing and Research,Ó at the University of Oregon's Osher
Lifelong Learning Center, May 2008
ÒArt
and Philosophy,Ó at Yale University, April 2008.
"Are
Suburbs Real Places?," at the University of Oregon's Osher Lifelong
Learning Center, January 2008.
"Universal
and Particular Persons and Places," at the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy
Consortium, December 2007.
"Socrates
Looks at Today's Media," at the Eugene OASIS continuing education center.
"Crossing
the Borders: Scholarship and Research in a Networked World," at the
Humanities Institute, SUNY Stony Brook, March 2006.
"Darwin
Rocks Hegel: Does Nature have a History?" at the department of philosophy,
SUNY Stony Brook, March 2006, at the University of Oregon, April 2006..
"Composition
and Presentation," at eNarrative 6, Boston, January 2006
"Themes
in Place," at the School of Architecture, Lund University, Sweden,
December 2005.
"How
Do I Write This Thing," at KID, RCAST, University of Tokyo, Novvember
2005.
"The
Necessities of Hegel's Logics," APA Pacific Division, San Francisco, March
2005.
"Twin
Media: Hypertext Structure Under Pressure," at the 2004 Hypertext
Conference, August 2004.
"Scholarly
Hypertext Today," Wayland Seminar, Brown University, March 2004.
"Beyond
the Pale: The Spectre of Formal Universality," response to Frederick
Neuhouser's book on Hegel's politics, APA, December 03, Washington DC.
"Complexity
in Places," Byggnadsfunktion Seminar, School of Architecture, Lund
University, Sweden, September 2003.
"The
Sprawling Places Project." Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, September
2003.
"Exposing
Exposition: New Genres of Hypertext Exposition and Argument," Aarhus
University, Aarhus, Denmark, September 2003.
"Accessible
Hypertext," panel participant, Hypertext 03, Nottingham, England, August
2003..
"New Genres and Informal Voices in Scholarly
Communication." at the workshop on Scholarly Hypertext, Hypertext 03,
Nottingham, England, August 2003.
"Philosophy
Goes Hyper: New Voices and Styles of Scholarly Communication," at the APA
Pacific Division, San Francisco, March 2003.
"Authenticity
with Teeth: Positing Process," forthcoming in Philosophical Romanticism, edited by Nikolas Kompridis.
"The
Logic of Language Change," Presidential Address, Hegel Society of America,
Penn State, October 2002.
"The
Logic of the Critical Process," at a panel on Hegel and Critical Theory,
SPEP, Baltimore, October 2001.
"Space
and Meaning Stability," at the Hypertext 01 Workshop on Spatial Hypertext,
Aarhus, Denmark, August 2001.
"Saving
the Suburbs," Faculty lecture, Bates College, January 2001.
"Variations
on a Theme by Disney," at a conference on Architecture, Language and
Design, Bowdoin College, April, 2000.
"Hypertext
and Print," to the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries, Texas A and
M University, March, 2000.
"Full
Theme Ahead," to the Center for the Study of American Design, University
of Texas School of Architecture, March, 2000.
"Complex
Grammars: Saving Suburbia," to Studio E, and the Building Function
department, School of Architecture, Lund, Sweden, October 1999.
"Genius
Fluxus: The Spirit of Change," at a conference on the flux of place,
Sandbjerg, Denmark, October, 1999.
"Hypertext
at Work," to the Design@Work group, Lund, Sweden, October 1999.
"Casey
on Site and Place," Seminar on Edward Casey's The Fate of Place, School of
Architecture, University of Lund, Sweden, October 1999.
"The
Particular Logic of Modernity," to the Hegel Society of Great Britain,
Pembroke College, Oxford, September 1999.
"Steps
to the Futures," to a conference on religion and education at the
millennium, Bates College, January 1999.
"Four
Questions and a Funeral: Hegel on Spirit's Self-Division and New Life," to
a colloquium on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Pennsylvania State University,
March, 1999.
"Ruminations
in Mixed Company: Literacy in Print and Hypertext Together," a talk given
at the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, July 1998. Available at
http://www.bates.edu/~dkolb/ou-dk.html
"Hypertext
and Argument," a seminar given at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy,
October 1997.
"The
Age of the List" a talk at the conference on Urban Preservation as an
Aesthetic Problem, Rome, October 1997.
"Scholarly
Hypertext: Self-Represented Complexity" at Hypertext 97, University of
Southampton, England, April 1997.
The
Spirit of Gravity: Hegel Society of America, Denver, Colorado, October, 1996.
"Hypertext
and Literacy," SPEP, Washington, October 1996.
"Hypertext
in the Classroom and Research," Nercomp, Sturbridge, March 1996.
"Hyper-Literacy:
Re-forming Reading in a Media Age," University of Manitoba, April 1996.
"The
Prose of Hypertext: Hypertext for Teaching and Writing Philosophy," CHUG
(Brown University Computers in the Humanities User Group), October 1995.
Panelist
at a Conference on "King Ludd and the Resistance to Technology,"
University of South Florida at Tampa, September 1995 (Virtual panel session
through IATH Moo, University of Virginia)
"Re-writing
Socrates: Hypertext Prose and Argument," Workshop "Serious
Hypertext," Boston, May, 1995.
"Before
Beyond Function," Conference on Hegel and Architecture, School of
Architecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, March 1995.
"Postmodernism
and Pluralism," and "Japanese Architecture Today," School of
Architecture, Chalmers Technical University, Gothenburg, Sweden, February 1995.
"Irony
and Postmodernism," University of Tokyo, October 1994.
"Form
and Flow: Is there a Postmodern Age?," two lectures at a conference on The
European City in the Age of Pluralism, School of Architecture, Aarhus, Denmark,
September 1994.
"Socrates
in the Labyrinth," remote video presentation of a hypertext essay, at ECHT
'94 Edinburgh, Scotland, September 1994.
"Subdivisions,
Metaphysics, and the History of Classification," Pennsylvania State
University, February 1994, and Northwestern University, March 1994
"Raising
Atlantis: the Later Heidegger and Contemporary Philosophy," invited
symposium talk, American Philosophy Association, Eastern Division, Atlanta,
December 1993.
"Building
and Thinking at the End of History," Holy Cross College, October 1993.
"Coming
Down out of the Trees: Kant and Hegel on the Transcendentals,"University
of New Hampshire, October 1993.
"Hypertext
and Philosophy," Conference on Computers in Philosophy, Pittsburgh, August
1993.
"Socrates
in the Labyrinth," Vassar College, April, 1993.
"Computers,
Communication, and Walls," Kanazawa Nichibei Kyokai Kanazawa, Japan, April
1993.
"Locality
and Identity: Escaping Hierarchy," University of Nagoya, Japan, April,
1993.
"How
do we build and think at the end of history?," University of Maine at
Orono, November 1992.
"Es
spielet, weil es spielet," Between Heidegger and Nietzsche, Trieste,
April, 1992.
"Scholars,
Scholasticisms, and the End of Philosophy," Wabash College, March 1992.
"Circulation
Bound: Hegel and Heidegger on the State," Invited paper, Society for
Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy, Memphis, October 1991.
"Circulation
and Constitution at the End of History," Invited symposium participant,
American Phiilosophical Association Central Division, Chicago, April 1991.
"Planning
and Totality," Center for Sustainable Cities, University of Kentucky,
April 1991.
"Postmodernism
in Thought and Architecture," Vassar College, April 1990.
"Hegel
and Religion: an Open and Shut Case," Brown University, March 1990.
"What
is Open and What is Closed in the Philosophy of Hegel (Version 2),"
Society for Systematic Philosophy, Atlanta, December, 1989.
"Heidegger
and Habermas on Criticism and Totality," Heidegger Conference 1989,
University of Notre Dame.
"Haughty
and Humble Ironies," University of South Carolina, April 1989.
"What
is Modern about Postmodern Architecture," Clemson University School of
Architecture, April 1989.
"Traditional
Japanese Crafts in the Modern Context," Olin Museum of Art, Bates College
Museum of Art, November, 1988.
"What
is Open and What is Closed in the Philosophy of Hegel," Loyola University
of Chicago, October, 1988.
"Projects
and Roots: Heidegger on Where We Are," American Political Science
Association, Washington, D.C., September, 1988.
"The
Power of the Sophist," Maine Philosophical Institute, April, 1988.
"Modernity
in America and Japan," delivered at ELEC, Tokyo, Japan, December, 1987.
"From
Pillar to Post: Modernity and Postmodernity in Architecture,"
International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Kansas,
May, 1987.
"The
Semantics of Modern Dance," panelist, Bates Dance Festival, July, 1987.
"Heidegger
and Transcendental Arguments," Nagoya Philosophical Society, January 1984.
"Rationality
and Persuasion," Nagoya Business Debate Group, December 1983.
"American
Individualism and Law," (with Richard Parker), the American Centers, Osaka
and Nagoya, Japan, November 1983.
"Hegel
and Heidegger: Locating Modernity," New School for Social Research
Graduate Faculty, February 1983.
"Humanism
Letter: The Price of Land Around The House of Being," Collegium
Phenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, Summer 1982.
"Hegel:
The Whole Story," at Hegel Today: the Meaning of Hegel's Absolute Spirit,
University of Ottawa, October 1981.
"A
Place Without a Form," Heidegger Circle, Pennsylvania State University,
Spring 1981.
"Animal
Rights or Animal Values?" Bates College Colloquium on Animal
Experimentation, 1979.
"Heidegger
and Hegel as Critics," Collegium Phenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, Summer,
1978, and at Northern New England Philosophy Association, November 1979.
"The
Last Word in Greek Philosophy," Symposium on Early Greek Thought and
Culture, University of Chicago, 1977; also delivered to the Department of
Philosophy, University of Maine at Orono, 1978.
"Myth,
Truth, and Translation," Conference on Myth, University of Chicago, 1975.
"The
Varieties of Transcendental Method in Philosophy," Washington and Lee
University, 1975.
"Mysticism
and Philosophy," Washington and Lee University, 1975.
"Sellars
on the Measure of All Things," Department of Philosophy, University of
Illinois Chicago, 1975.
Talks
delivered to the philosophy colloquium at the University of Chicago, 1973-7:
"The Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars" "Relations between European
and American Philosophy" "De Re and De Dicto in Medieval Logic"
"Ontological Priorities in Strawson" "Eternity in Plato and
Plotinus"
"Heidegger
on the Limits of Science," Heidegger Circle, Tulane University, Spring
1974.
"Ontological
Priorities," Department of Philosophy, Rice University, 1974.
"Time
and the Timeless in Greek Thought," Society for Asian and Comparative
Philosophy, 1973.
Comments on presentations:
"Collisions
and Interactions: Philosophical Reflections on CATAC '98," at the
conference on Cultural Attitudes toward Technology and Communication, London,
August 1998. Available at http://www.bates.edu/~dkolb/catac-dk.html
Recollecting
Design," comments on a paper by Robert Mugerauer on Daniel Liebeskind's
addition to the Berlin Museum, at the Society for Phenomenological and Existential
Philosophy, Chicago, October 1995.
"Training
and Architecture," Conference on "Das Unheimliche" in
Architecture and the City, DePaul University, April 1991.
"Heidegger
and Politics," American Political Science Association, New England
Regional Meeting, April 1990.
"Me
and My Shadow," Heidegger Circle, 1982, (on Robert Bernasconi)
"The
Community of Inquiry," Boston Colloquium on Philosophy and Religion, 1980.
(on Robert Neville)
"Two
Cheers for the Ontic," Heidegger Circle, University of Toronto, Spring
1980. (on Charles Scott)
"Phenomenology
and Psychoanalysis," Heidegger Circle, Duquesne University Spring 1979.
(on William Richardson)
"Aquinas
on God," Symposium on Medieval Thought, University of Chicago, 1974. (on
David Burrell)
Courses Taught:
At Bates College:
Architecture,
Tradition, Innovation
Between
Text and Hypertext (first year seminar)
Contemporary
Debates about Subjectivity
Designs,
Traditions, and Powers
Dilemmas
of Architecture and Design in the Post-Modern Age (Alumni Course)
Doing
Philosophy
Dwelling
and Dispersion
Feminist
and Postmodern Critiques of Philosophy
From
Text to Hypertext (first year seminar)
Greek
Philosophy
Habermas
and Foucault
Hegel's
Phenomenology of Spirit
Hegel's
Philosophy of Art (short term unit)
Hyperwriting
(short term unit)
Intention
and Meaning (co-taught with five colleagues)
Interpretation
and Deconstruction
Introduction
to Logic
Japanese
Places: Modern, Feudal, Postmodern (Bates Fall Program in Japan, Tokyo, 1989)
Metaphysics
and its Enemies
Modernization:
an Introduction to Japanese Civilization (Bates Fall Program in Japan 1987)
Nietzsche
Nineteenth
Century Philosophy
Normative
Ethics
Phenomenology
and Existentialism
Phenomenology
and Science
Philosophy
of Art
Philosophy
of Science
Postmodernism:
Lyotard and Habermas
Readings
in Greek Philosophy: Plato's Phaedrus
and Plotinus, "On Beauty,"
Readings
in Greek Philosophy: Plato's Philebus
and Gorgias
Readings
in Greek Philosophy: The Nichomachean
Ethics
Religion
and Science (co-taught with Thomas Tracy)
Ricoeur's
Oneself as Another
Rorty
on Heidegger and Derrida
Self
and Individual East and West (co-taught with Lily de Silva)
Seminar
on Major Thinkers: Aristotle
Seminar
on Major Thinkers: Wittgenstein
Seminar:
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Seminar:
World and Reality
Short
Term Symposium: The Exploration of Space (co-taught with physics and
mathematics)
Short
Term trip to Japan, Spring 1985
Tokyo
as City and as Myth (Bates Fall Program in Japan 1994)
Topics
in the Philosophy of Art: Place and Placelessness
Transcendental
Arguments in Analytic Philosophy
At Japanese Universities:
American
Thought.
The
Idea of Progress
At the University of
Chicago:
Ancient
Philosophy
General
Humanities
Greek
Thought and Literature
Hegel's
Logic
Hegel's
Phenomenology of Spirit (with Paul Ricoeur)
Heidegger's
"Origin of the Art Work" (with Ted Cohen).
Nietzsche
(with Paul Ricoeur)
Phenomenology
and Science
Philosophy
of Religion: Mysticism
Strawson
and Heidegger on Kant
The
Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars
Transcendental
Method in Philosophy
At Yale University:
Political
Philosophy (teaching assistant)
At Mt. St. Agnes College:
Introduction
to Asian Religions
The
Problem of Evil.
At Woodstock College:
Introduction
to Asian Religions.
At Fordham University:
Epistemology
Ethics
History
of Philosophy
Ontology
and Metaphysics.
Philosophy
of Man
Philosophy
of Nature
Philosophy
of Religion
Administrative Experience:
At Bates College:
Chair,
Humanities Division
Chair,
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Committee
Chair: Library Committee, Long Range Planning Committee, Ad Hoc Committee on
Extracurricular Life, Computing Service Committee, Information Services
Advisory Committee, Task Force on Strategic Planning for Technology,
Information Services Advisory Committee
Committee
Member: Personnel Committee, Educational Policy Committee, Academic Computing
Service Committee, Ad Hoc Committee on Computers and the Liberal Arts, Graduate
Study Committee, Ad Hoc Committee on Tenure Rules, Planning Group for New
Residential Construction, Committee on Teaching Awards, Vision 2005 Planning
Committee, Interdepartmental Hiring Committees in Education, Art History, and
for the Dean of the Faculty, Architectural Advisory Committees for a new
student residence, a new academic building, and the renovation of Coram
Library, President's Advisory Committee, Electronic Security and Access
Committee, Campus Master Plan Committee
Planned,
administered, and taught a spring term trip to Japan, 1985, and the Bates Fall
Semesters in Japan, 1987, 1989, 1994.
At The University of
Chicago:
Chair,
Departmental Committees on Admissions, Financial Aid, Library
Member,
Departmental Committee on Placement, Humanities Collegiate Division Advisory
Board, University Advisory Board on Continuing Education
At Fordham University:
Director,
Fordham College Debate Program.
Other Service:
Co-editor
of Northwestern University Press Series "SPEP Studies in Historical
Philosophy" (with John McCumber)
Guest
Editor, special issue on Hegel, Dialogue:
a Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
Program
Committee member or reviewer: Hegel Society of America, SPEP, ACM Hypertext
Conference, Digital Arts and Culture Conference, SCI Conference
Review
manuscripts for the University of Chicago Press, University of Minnesota Press,
Critical Inquiry, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Continental Philosophy
Review, Journal of Digital Information, SUNY Press, Duke University Press, The
Review of Politics, Dialogue, Cambridge University Press, Northwestern
University Press, Rowan and Littlefield, the ACM Hypertext Conference, TKDE
Computer Theory, World Wide Web Conference.
Reviewed
PhD dissertations for Northwestern University, University of Sydney, University
of Chicago, University of Toronto.
External
examiner for PhD defenses at the University of Toronto and at Chalmers
Technical University, Sweden; External Examiner for the Swarthmore College
Honors Program in Philosophy, External Reviewer of the Philosophy Department,
Wabash College
Reviewed
dossiers and interviewed candidates for fellowships, planned and helped run
annual conferences for the Danforth Foundation.
Participant
in seminars, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Chalmers Technical
University School of Architecture, Aarhus University School of Architecture,
Lund University School of Architecture.
Professional Organizations:
American
Philosophical Association
Hegel
Society of America (Vice-President, 1988-1990, President, 2000-2002))
Heidegger
Conference
Association
for Computing Machines
Society
for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)
Community Service
Lewiston
(Maine) Historical Preservation Review Board
Crest
Area Neighborhood Association Board, Neighborhood Leaders Council subcommittees
on infill compatibility standards.