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Biography: Bernard Harrison continues to be philosophically active
and involved with the department. He will be giving a seminar and colloquium
in the department in March 2006, in connection with the Pacific Division
APA meetings. He current serves on two advisory boards and continues
to write widely.
International Advisory Boards
1. Partial Answers:
Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, the Magnes Press,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. (Partial Answers was recently
awarded the title of best new journal for 2004, by the American Councli
of Editors of Learned Journals)
2. Philosophy of History and Culture series put out by the
Dutch publishing house Brill.
Books
- [with Pat Hanna] Word
and World: Practice and the Foundations of Language, NY: Cambridge
University Press (2004)
- (in progress) a book on
the isssue of whether there is anything antisemitic in the attitudes
of people on the Left in Britain and Continental Europe to Israel
(I argue that there is). The book is called The New Antisemitism.
- (in progress) In 2006,
I hope to work up a whole bunch of articles on philosophy and literature
published since the appearance of my Inconvenient Fictions: Literature
and the Limits of Theory (Yale 1991) into a new book of that
type.
Articles
- "What Are Fictions For?",
invited contribution to MIDWEST STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY, VOL XXV, Eds.
Peter A. French and Howard K. Wettstein, Blackwell Publishers, Inc.,
Malden, MA, Oxford (2001), 12-35
- "Houyhnhnm Virtue", PARTIAL
ANSWERS: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, v.1 no.1,
January 2003, 35-64
- (with Patricia Hanna)
"Interpretation and Reality: Two Queries for Krausz", in Interpretation
and Ontology in the Philosophy of Michael Krausz, ed. Andreea
Deciu and G. Pandit, NY: Rhodopi Press (2003)
- "Imagined Worlds and the
Real One: Plato, Wittgenstein and Literary Mimesis" (previously published
in PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE 1993), in John Gibson and Wolfgang Huemer,
eds., The Literary Wittgenstein, London, NY: Routledge (2004)
- (forthcoming) "Aharon
Appelfeld and the Problem of Holocaust Fiction", in A Sense of
the World, Essays on Fiction, Narrative and Knowledge, eds, John
Gibson and Wofgang.Huemer, London, NY: Routledge (2006)
- (forthcoming) "Realism",
10,000-word article commissioned for The Oxford Handbook of Literature
and Philosophy, ed Richard Eldridge, Oxford University Press
(2006/7?)
- (forthcoming) A shorter
version of "Aharon Appelfeld and the Problem of Holocaust Fiction"
requested for advance publication in the January 2006 issue of Partial
Answers.
Conferences, etc.,
- Paper on Aharon Appelfeld
and Holocaust fiction read to the Kunst und Kognition conference,
Erfurt, Germany 9--11 June 2005,
- Paper on Language, Literature
and Reality to be presented at the Pacific Meetings of the APA at
Portland in March 2006
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Bernard Harrison
