Nicholas Davey

British philosopher

Nicholas Davey

Born|  (1950-08-08) 8 August 1950 (age 74)
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
Era| 21st century Philosophy
Region| Western philosophy
School| Continental
Institutions| University of Dundee

Main interests

| hermeneutics, aesthetics, contemporary European philosophy, Buddhist Thought

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

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* Unfinished Worlds. Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and Gadamer. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0748686223
* Unquiet Understanding: Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics. New York: SUNY Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0791468425

## Book chapters

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* "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. ISBN 978-1138574632
* “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.

## Articles

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* "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.

## References

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

## External links

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

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