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]
"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. ISBN978-1138574632
“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.
"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.