Bret W. Davis
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Office: HU 050P
410-617-5697
bwdavis@loyola.edu - B.A. – Trinity University (Philosophy), 1989
- M.A. – Vanderbilt University (Philosophy), 1996
- Ph.D. – Vanderbilt University (Philosophy), 2001
- Study of Japanese Language and Culture in Osaka, Japan, 1990–1993
- Graduate Studies and Post-Doctoral Research at Otani University and Kyoto University, Japan, 1996-2004
- Visiting Scholar at Freiburg University, Germany, 2007-2008
- Visiting Scholar at Kyoto University, 2011-2012
- Japanese Philosophy, with a focus on the Kyoto School
- Buddhist Philosophy, with a focus on Mahayana and especially Zen
- 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, with a focus on Heidegger
- Cross-Cultural Philosophy
- Comparative Philosophy of Religion
- PL 201 Foundations of Philosophy
- PL 216 Asian Thought (Philosophies of Hinduism and Buddhism)
- PL 314 Environmental Ethics
- PL 336 Comparative Philosophy: East-West Dialogues
- PL 321 Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Ethics/Politics and Hermeneutics
- PL 365 Japanese Philosophy
- PL 385 The Thought of Heidegger
Dr. Davis also leads the Heart of Zen meditation group on campus.
- Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2007).
- Sekai no naka no Nihon no tetsugaku [Japanese Philosophy in the World], co-edited with Fujita Masakatsu (Kyoto: Showado, 2005).
- "The Kyoto School," in the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- "Zen after Zarathustra: The Problem of the Will in the Confrontation between Nietzsche and Buddhism," in Journal of Nietzsche Studies 28 (2004): 89–138.
- "Natural Freedom: Human/Nature Non-Dualism in Japanese Thought" in The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy, ed. Jay Garfield (Oxford University Press, 2011).
- Translator of Martin Heidegger’s Country Path Conversations (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010).
- Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School, co-edited with Brian Schroeder and Jason M. Wirth (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011).
- Editor of Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts (Durham, UK: Acumen Publishing, 2010).
- “The Presencing of Truth: Dogen’s Genjokoan” in Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings, ed. Jay Garfield and William Edelglass (Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 251–259.
View a complete list of publications (as of 2011) in PDF.
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