Curriculum vitae – Ran Lahav
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 Work 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.
Other work experience:
Organizer and director of numerous workshops, seminars, and lectures on philosophical practice, in countries such as Israel, USA, Spain, Italy, Norway, Moldova, Peru, Ecuador and others - since 1992.
Honoray member of ASEPRAF, the Spanish association for philosophical practice, since 2007.
Honorary member of Phronesis, the Italian association for philosophical practice, since 2006.
Practicing philosophical counselor since 1992.
Initiator and co-organizer (together with Jose Barrientos) 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 Israeli journal for creative therapy Ken, 1993-4.
Editorial board member of the German journal Zeitschrift für Philosophische Praxis, 1993-6.
Publications:
Books:
The Chambers of Heaven (A philosophical-spiritual novel in Hebrew), Jerusalem: Carmel Publishing House, forthcoming.
Comprendere la Vita: La consuelza filosofica come ricerza della sagezza (In Italian: Understanding Life: Philosophical Counseling as a Search for Wisdom), Milano: 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).
3 Educational books in Hebrew (Jerusalem: Ministry of Education Press, 1980, 1982, 1984).
Academic 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 für Philosophische Praxis, 11-12: 1993.
“A New Challenge for the Physicalist,” Philosophia, 24: 1994.
“Is Philosophical Counseling that Different from Psychotherapy?,” Zeitschrift für 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?” (in Italian: “Cosa puo impararela consulenza filosofica da Buber?”) in: Ed. Luca Bertolino, Martin Buber: Colpa e Sensi di Colpa, Milano: Apogeo Press, 2008.
“Philosophical Practice – Have We Gone Far Enough?” forthcoming in Practical Philosophy.
