G.C.F. Bearn, January 2017, p. 1
Name: Gordon C.F. Bearn
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Degrees: Ph.D., Philosophy, Yale University, May 1985
B.A., M.A. Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Pembroke College, Oxford
University, 1979, 2004
B.A., cum laude, Honors in Philosophy, Williams College, 1977.
Appointments:
August 2001 to present, Professor of Philosophy Lehigh University.
September 2014 to July 2015 Visiting Scholar, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.
September 2007 to June 2008 Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
August 2001 to July 2008, Founding Director, Humanities Center, Lehigh University.
August 2001 to July 2008, Selfridge Professor of Philosophy, Lehigh University.
August 1999 to July 2001, Chair of the Philosophy Department, Lehigh University.
August 1996 to July 1998, Chair of the Philosophy Department, Lehigh University.
August 1995 to July 1996, Acting Chair of the Philosophy Department, Lehigh University.
July 1994 to July 1995, Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Logic and
Metaphysics at The University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland.
August 1992 to July 2001, Associate Professor of Philosophy, with Tenure, Lehigh University.
August 1986 to July 1992, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Lehigh University.
January 1985 to February 1986, Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy, Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
September 1980 to June 1984, Teaching Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Grants
Received:
(6) Faculty Grant for International Connections, Lehigh Office of International Affairs. 2011. The Grant was to develop connections between Lehigh and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. The grant brought me to Católica for four seminars jointly led by Victor J. Krebs August 16, 18, 22, & 23, 2011. A second seminar, this one led by Steven G. Affeldt, Victor J. Krebs, and myself was held at Lehigh University July 9-18, 2012. The seminar involved about 12 faculty and grad students from around the country, and it had a very long title: "Stakes of Speech: Self-Revelation and Theatricality - A Summer Seminar on Wittgenstein in the Spirit of Cavell and Rhees."
(5) Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Officer's Grant. 1997."Re-Figuring the University: A Study of Lehigh." Seminar and Speaker Series, Spring 1996-Fall 1997.
(4) NEH Seminar: Knowledge, Realism, and Reflection, Michael Williams, director, Northwestern University, Summer 1992.
(3) Paul Franz Fellowship, Lehigh University, Summer 1989.
(2) NEH Institute: Interpretation in the Sciences and Humanities, Hubert Dreyfus David Hoy, directors, with month long participation of Stanley Cavell, Richard Rorty, Thomas Kuhn, Charles Taylor, and Alexander Nehamas. UC Santa Cruz, Summer 1988.
(1) Provost Grant for Teaching Development, Lehigh University, Spring 1987.
1. Scholarly Activities.
A. Publications.
a. Books.
(2) Life Drawing: A Deleuzean Aesthetics of Existence. Fordham University Press, May 2013.
Reviewed: (a) Choice 51.07 (March 2014)
(b) Janae Sholtz, "Bruising the Rose: Becoming Beautiful in Gordon Bearn’s Life Drawing: A Deleuzian Aesthetics of Existence,” Comparative and Continental Philosophy, 2014.
(1) Waking To Wonder: Wittgenstein's Existential Investigations, SUNY Press, January 1997.
Reviewed: (a) Rom Harré International Studies in Philosophy, 33, no. 2 (2001): 139-141.
(b) S.E. Arnold (on line) Literature Network Forums (July 2010)
Link to Literature Network Forums Review
b. Articles.
(32) "Foucault, Boole, And Our Deleuzean Century" invited contribution to
Symbolizing Existence, volume 3, edited by Vera Bühlmann in series Metalithikum, Birkhäuser Vienna/Basel, November 2016.
(31) "Inklings And Algebra: Beyond The Industrialized Humanities." in New Writing Volume II - December 2015 - Serpent Club Press - edited by Matt Gasda.
(30) "Bats? Again? William James, Consciousness, and Our Insipid Existence" Journal of Speculative Philosophy 29.4 (2015).
(29) Revised version of "Kitsch" for the second edition of Kelly, ed. The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics Oxford University Press. July 2014. (A revision of (14).)
(28) "Pointlessness and the University of Beauty" in Richard Smith, editor, Philosophy of Education II: Major Themes in Education, Routledge 2014. (Reprint of (16) (21))
(27) “The Mechanism of Meaning: A Pedagogical Sketchbook.”
Inflexions - A Journal for Research Creations 6, (January 2013). 250-266. http://www.inflexions.org/n6_bearn.html
(26) "Sensual Schooling. On the Aesthetic Education of Grownups." Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups. Fordham University Press, 2012. Reviewed by Stanley Bates in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/35266-stanley-cavell-and-the-education-of-grownups/
(25) republication of (24) - "The Enormous Danger" in Tolerancia/Toleration/Tolerância volume 5, edited by Castro, Augusto and Krebs, Victor J. Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial de la Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012.
(24) "The Enormous Danger." in Seeing Wittgenstein Anew edited by William Day and Victor Krebs. Cambridge University Press, (March 2010)
(23) "Effecting Affection. The Corporeal Ethics of Gins and Arakawa."
Journal of Aesthetic Education 44.2 (Summer 2010): 40-49.
(22) "Not Pretty. Beautiful." In Colman, F.J. et. al. eds., Sensorium: art-aesthetics-
philosophy. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
(21) "Pointlessness and the University of Beauty" reprinted in Jean François Lyotard: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory Volume 3, Ethics, edited by Victor E. Taylor, Gregg Lambert, (Routledge, 2006), vol 3, pp. 1-30. (Reprint of (16).)
(20) "Differentiating Derrida and Deleuze” reprinted in Jacques Derrida edited by David Roden and Christopher Norris. (Sage Publications, December 2002) Volume 1. (My essay was originally published in 2000)
(19) "Derrida Dry: Iterating Iterability Analytically" reprinted in Jonathan Culler ed. Deconstruction: Critical Concepts Routledge 2002. (My essay was originally published in 1995.)
(18) "Differentiating Derrida and Deleuze" Continental Philosophy Review (Previously Man and World) 33.4 (October 2000), 441-465.
(17) "Staging Authenticity: A Critique of Cavell’s Modernism"
Philosophy and Literature 24.2 (October 2000), 494-311.
(16) "Pointlessness and the University of Beauty," in Educating Lyotard, edited by Paul Standish and Pradeep Dhillon, Routledge 2000, 230-268. Reprinted 2005, see (21).
(15) "Individuation without Identity: A Deleuzian Aesthetics of Existence."
Now in Mapping Jewish Identities, edited by Laurence J. Silberstein, New York University Press. Spring 2000, 324-349.
(14) "Kitsch," in The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly, Oxford
University Press, 1998, 65-70.
(13) "Sounding Serious: Cavell and Derrida," Representations 63
Summer 1998, 65-92.
(12) "Instead of Relativism," Proceedings of the 4th ISSEI Conference, Graz,
Austria, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 2.4 (1998).
(11) "Aestheticide: Architecture and the Death of Art," Journal of aesthetic Education, 31.1 (Spring 1997): 87-94.
(10) "Derrida Dry: Iterating Iterability Analytically," Diacritics, 25.3 (Fall
1995): 3-25.
(9) "The Possibility of Puns: A Defense of Derrida," Philosophy and Literature,
19.2, (October 1995), 330-335.
(8) "Wittgenstein and the Uncanny." Soundings, 76.1 (1993), 29-58.
(7) "The Formal Syntax of Modernism: Carnap and Le Corbusier." British
Journal of Aesthetics, 32.3 (1992), 227-241.
(6) "Still Looking For Proof: A Critique of Smith's Relativism," The Journal
of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 49.4 (Fall 1991), 297-306.
(5) "The Horizon of Reason," in Relativism: Interpretation and Confrontation.
Michael Krausz, editor, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989, 205-231.
(4) "Reply to Martin's 'A Critique of Nietzsche's Metaphysical Scepticism',"
International Studies in Philosophy, Summer 1987, 61-65.
(3) "Nietzsche, Feyerabend, And The Voices of Relativism," Metaphilosophy
Volume 17, Nos. 2 & 3, April/July 1986, 135-152.
(2) "Relativism as Reductio," Mind Volume 94, no. 375, July 1985, 398-408.
(1) "Cavell, Wittgenstein and Human Finitude," Proceedings Of The 8th
International Wittgenstein Symposium/Kirchberg am Wechsel Part 2 Philosophy of Religion, Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1984, 95-97.
c. Book Reviews
(8) Review of Literary Theory after Davidson edited by Reed Way Dasenbrock,
(University Park, The Pennsylvania University Press). The Philosophical Quarterly. January 1998, 135-137.
(7) Review of Newton Garver and Seung-Chong Lee, Derrida and Wittgenstein
(Philadelphia, Temple UP), Philosophical Books, 37.2 (April 1996), 118-119.
(6) Review of Paul Johnston, Wittgenstein: Rethinking The Inner, (London:
Routledge), The European Legacy 1997, 2127-2128.
(5) Review of James C. Edwards The Authority of Language: Heidegger,
Wittgenstein, and the Threat of Philosophical Nihilism (Tampa, 1990) Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 60.3 (Fall 1992), 545-548.
(4) Review of Literature and Medicine. Volume 5: Use and Abuse of Literary Concepts in Medicine. (Johns Hopkins, 1986.) Edited by Joanne Trautmann Banks. Isis, 80:1:301 (1989) p. 95-6. Co-authored with Alexander G. Bearn.
(3) Review of Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and
Expertise in the Era of The Computer, Dreyfus, H.L. and Dreyfus, S.E., New York: Free Press, 1986. CogSci News, v.1, n. 2, Fall 1988. Co-Authored with: Norman P. Melchert, 3-4.
(2) Review of Rationality, Relativism, and the Human Sciences, Margolis, J.,
Krausz, M., et al. editors. Canadian Philosophical Reviews March 1988.
(1) Review of The Prevalence of Humbug Max Black, Ithaca: Cornell Univ, 99- 102. Press, 1983. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. Autumn 1985 Co-authored with Alexander G. Bearn.
B. Papers, Addresses.
a. Off Campus (Papers, addresses, and videos for (41) and (50)).
(63) "Inklings And Algebra." Keynote address, 29th annual conference of the IAPRS (Interdisciplinary Association for Philosophyand Religious Studies) EastStroudsburgUniversity - 9 April2016
(62) "What is Philosophy?" on 20 May 2015 at Kobe Women's University in Suma, Japan. I spoke to the philosophy class of Professor KANO Kyo.
(61) "Communication and Resistance in Deleuze and Gertrude Stein" Invited Plenary Address at Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari-Refrains of Freedom 24-26 April 2015 Panteion University Athens, Greece.
(60) "Punctuation in Gertrude Stein and Wittgenstein: Legacies of William James MD" Invited Lecture. The Jennie Mae and Ellis L. Krause Lecture,
Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio. November 12, 2014.
(59) "The Experience of Stanley Cavell [Bringing up Baby]" Invited Paper, El pensamiento del cine. Coloquio internacional sobre cine y filosofía en homenaje a Stanley Cavell, [The Thought of Movies. International Colloquium on Cinema and Philosophy in honor of Stanley Cavell] Lima, Peru November 4, 2014
(58) "Foucault, Boole, and Our Deleuzean Century" Lehigh University, Second Annual Philosophy Conference, October 24, 2014.
(57) "Violescent Sensuality: Beyond Deleuze's Logic of Sensation" at the 7th International Deleuze Studies Conference, Models, Machines and Memories Istanbul, July, 14-16th 2014.
(56) "Bats? Again?" presented at ISI 2013, The Interactivist Summer Institute University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL. August 1-4, 2013
(55) "Reading Out Loud" presented at “I International Colloquium: Perspectives from Wittgenstein,” at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, both in the city of Porto Alegre, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. May 20-24 2013
(54) "Feeling Words: An Attitude to Linguistic Life." presented at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, October 2012.
(53) "Sensual Semantics" presented at the 4th European Communication Conference, sponsored by ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association). The conference was held at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University,Bomonti Campus, Istanbul October 24-27, 2012.
(52) "Humming While He Works, or Inadvertent Mysticism in the Writing of Stanley Cavell." Invited presentation at Stanley Cavell and Understanding Other Cultures a two-day conference at Harvard University, March 19,20, 2012.
(51) "Sensual Semantics" a paper presented at the Sensory Worlds conference, Edinburgh, Scotland. December 7-9, 2011.
(50) "Experiencing Wittgenstein" four seminars presented with Victor J. Krebs to faculty and grad students at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in August 2011. All four seminars are available in video on the web:
8/16/2011 http://videos.pucp.edu.pe/videos/compartido/e7a1aa87e71c3f231de305bf5bb0a660
8/18/2011 http://videos.pucp.edu.pe/videos/compartido/5b23cacd58ba4fadb38116342d8f091f
8/22/2011 http://videos.pucp.edu.pe/videos/compartido/4f4fe65b03c5aaa267360de3ad561505
8/23/2011 http://videos.pucp.edu.pe/videos/compartido/1d5a7248aa4a0a2cac68fe1a61aaff65
(49) "Feeling Words: An Attitude to Linguistic Life" paper for Philosophy of Education conference, Gregynog, Wales, July 25, 26, 27, 2011
(47) "Austin: Sense and Sensuality" a presentation at the J.L Austin Centenary Conference, Lancaster University, England, April 5- 7, 2011.
(46) "The Education of Grownups" Panel discussion by some of the contributors to Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Spokane WA, March 10-12, 2011.
(45) "Feeling Words: An Attitude to Linguistic Life" invited lecture at "A New Form of Seeing: Wittgenstein in the 21st Century" at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, in Lima, Peru. December 2-4, 2010
(44) "Violescent Sensuality: Beyond Deleuze's Logic of Sensation," invited lecture in the Lehigh Humanities Center series on Excess, November 4, 2010.
(43) Accepted but not delivered because of volcanic activity of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland.
"Resonating Rhythms: Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon, and Sensual Enjoyment." A paper to be presented at RESONANCE(S): A Deleuze and Guattari Conference on Philosophy, Arts and Politics, April 22-24, 2010 at Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
(42) Invited Lecture. Live Presentation of (41) at "RAUCUS: Celebrating the Launching of an Art-Science of Viability," Barnard College in NYC, April 30, 2010
(41) "The Mechanism of Meaning: A Pedagogical Sketchbook" paper invited for ag3, the third international conference on Arakawa and Gins, this is an on-line conference, March 12-26, 2010. My talk is available in a video on line here: http://ag3.griffith.edu.au/node/283
(40) "Punctuation in Gertrude Stein and Wittgenstein," Invited Keynote Address at Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Association for Philosophy and Religious Studies, 22nd Annual Conference, April 3-4, 2009. Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.
(39) “Sensual Consciousness in James and Bergson” 3rd Philosophy Conference, ATINER, Athens, Greece, June 2, 2008
(38) “Not Pretty. Beautiful.” Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, April 25, 2008
(37) “The Enormous Danger” Philosophy Department, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, April 24, 2008
(36) “A Deleuze Cookbook” Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, April 16, 2008
(35) "Learning Comma Living" a paper presented at the Second International Arakawa + Gins Architecture + Philosophy Conference, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 4-6, 2008. recording available here:
http://slought.org/media/media-mp3/1366-2008-04-04-10-Bearn.mp3
(34) “Punctuation in Gertrude Stein and Wittgenstein.” Philosophy Department, Bogazici University, Istanbul, December 2007.
(33) "Humming While He Works, or Inadvertent Mysticism in the Writing of Stanley Cavell." on Cavell's Senses of Walden. Cavell Colloquium at Harvard University, October 27-29, 2006
(32) "Sensual Schooling: On The Aesthetic Education of Grownups.” Cavell Colloquium, Harvard University, October 27-29, 2006.
(31) "Sensual Schooling, or Green Grow the Grownups " Invited paper delivered at a conference on Cavell Education and the Senses of Walden. International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo, Japan. Also present: Paul Standish, Naoko Saito, Steve Odin, Andrew Feenberg. October 23, 2005