William Gavin
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Home Address
23 Battery Point Lane
Yarmouth, Maine 04096
University Address University of Southern Maine Department of Philosophy PO Box 9300Portland Maine 04104-9300
Telephone
office: 207-780-4242 home: 207-846-5745
E-mail wjg43@maine.rr.com gavin@usm.maine.edu
Date of Birth December 16, 1943
Citizenship: United States
Education: PhD Philosophy Fordham University, 1970 Thesis:"An Aesthetic Approach to the Philosophy of William James" MA Philosophy Fordham University, 1967 BA Russian Language & Soviet Area Studies Fordham University, 1965
Employment: 2007-2008 Chair, Philosophy Department 1977-present Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine
Interests: American Philosophy; Russian Philosophy; Ancient Philosophy; Aesthetics; Epistemology; Philosophy of Science; Death and Dying.
Books: see below
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Books:
In Dewey's Wake: Unfinished Work of Pragmatic Reconstruction, edited byWilliam J. Gavin (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003).
Cuttin' the Body Loose: Historical, Biological, and Personal Approaches to Deathand Dying (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995).
William James and the Reinstatement of the Vague (Philadelphia: TempleUniversity Press, 1992).
Context Over Foundation: Dewey and Marx, William J. Gavin, editor (Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1988).
Marxism and Alternatives: Towards the Conceptual Interaction Among SovietPhilosophy, Neo-Thomism,Pragmatism, and Phenomenology, Tom Rockmore, James Colbert, William J. Gavin, and Thomas J. Blakeley (Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1981)
Russia and America: A Philosophical Comparison, William J. Gavin and Thomas J.
Blakeley (Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1976)
Articles (selected last ten years):
2008:
“James, William (1842-1910),” Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse, (New York: Rutledge, Jan 2008)
“Vagueness,” Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse, (New York: Rutledge, Jan 2008)
“Immediacy,” Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse, (New York: Rutledge, Jan 2008)
“Ambiguity,” Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse, (New York: Rutledge, Jan 2008)
“Sick Soul,” Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse, (New York: Rutledge, Jan 2008)
“Habit,” Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse, (New York: Rutledge, Jan 2008)
2007:
“’Problem’ vs. ‘Trouble’: James, Kafka, Dostoevsky and ‘The Will to Believe’,” William James Studies, Vol 2 issue 1, 2007
2006:
“The Importance of Context in John Dewey’s Philosophy,” Dewey, Pragmatism and Modern Philosophy, edited by Yu Wujin, (Beijing: Renmin Press, 2006)
“Locality in American Culture and the American Experience,” in Experience as Philosophy: On the Work of John J. McDermott, edited by James Campbell and Richard E. Hart, (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006)
2004:
"William James, 1842-1910," in The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, edited by Armen T. Marsoobian and John Ryder (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, LTD, 2004)
“The Importance of ‘The Vague’ in William James’s Philosophy,” Jianghai Academic Journal, 2004, #4
2003:
"Contexts Vibrant and Contexts Souring in Dewey's Philosophy," in InDewey's Wake: Unfinished Work of Pragmatic Reconstruction (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003)
"On 'Tame' and 'Untamed' Death: Jamesian Reflections, "Pragmatic Bioethics, edited by Glenn McGee, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003) (Reprint of 1999)
"Between Logic and Philosophy: A Jamesian View," Society and Culture, Vol 10, 2003
1999:
"On 'Tame' and 'Untamed' Death: Jamesian Reflections," in Pragmatic Bioethics, edited by Glenn McGee (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1999.)
1998:
"The Woman, the Warrior, and the Wedding: James's Pragmatism, Marriage, and Divorce," The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol 12, # 4, 1998