Ran Lahav
Ran Lahav (born April 17, 1954) is an Israeli-born American philosopher, internationally active in developing philosophical activities for the general public. Since the early 1990s he has been a major figure in the philosophical practice movement, has given numerous workshops and retreats around the world, and published books and articles.[1]
Since the early 2010s he has been developing formats of philosophical contemplation, known as Deep Philosophy.[2]
Education
Ran Lahav received his Bachelor Degree in philosophy and psychology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1988 he completed his PhD in philosophy at the University of Michigan with a doctoral thesis on the nature of subjective experience, as well as a Master’s degree in psychology.[2]
Philosophical career
Lahav’s early academic work focused on philosophy of psychology. His interests shifted to practical philosophy in 1992, when he joined the then-nascent philosophical practice movement, which seeks to make philosophy relevant to individuals’ everyday lives.[1] He then taught philosophical counseling at Haifa University, gave public presentations on the topic, published articles, initiated and co-organized the first international conference on philosophical counseling (University of British Columbia, 1994),[2][3] and edited the anthology Essays on philosophical counseling (1995), the first book in English in the field.[1]
Over the years, Lahav’s approach to philosophical practice developed in three main phases, expressing three visions of how philosophy can contribute to individuals’ lives. Until the late 1990s he worked on developing the prevailing view that the role of philosophical practice is to provide thinking tools to help counselees address their personal issues.[1]
In the second phase, which lasted until the early 2010s, he envisioned a form of philosophizing that would help to elevate life and transform it, with the help of past philosophical texts. Inspired by notable historical philosophers, he developed philosophical methods of self-transformation and used them in counseling and group activity.[4] He published a comprehensive overview of this approach in his book Stepping out of Plato’s Cave (2016).
In the third phase of his work he developed contemplative (semi-meditative) forms of philosophizing, called “Deep Philosophy,” aimed at producing deep philosophical experiences. His international Deep Philosophy Group, formed in 2017, offers group activities, online and in retreats,[2] in which participants contemplate together from their inner depth on short philosophical texts.[5] An overview of this approach appears in Lahav’s book What is Deep Philosophy? (2021).
Relevant publications
Philosophy books
Essays on Philosophical Counseling, Lanham: University Press of America, 1995. (Edited anthology with second editor Maria Tillmanns); ISBN-10 0819199737; ISBN-13 978-0819199737
Comprendere la Vita: La consuelza filosofica come ricerza della sagezza, Apogeo, 2005; ISBN 88-503-2276-3
Oltre la Filosofia: alla ricerca della sagezza, Apogeo, 2010; ISBN-10 8850329288; ISBN-13 978-8850329281
Stepping out of Plato’s Cave, Loyev Books, 2016; ISBN-10 0998133035; ISBN-13 978-0998133034
Philosophical Contemplation, Loyev Books, 2018; ISBN-10 1947515942; ISBN-13 978-1947515949
What is Deep Philosophy?, Loyev Books, 2021; ISBN-10 1947515098; ISBN-13 978-1947515093
Philosophy articles
“Against Compositionality: The Case of Adjectives,” Philosophical Studies, 55: 1989.
“Dis-Phenomenalism: An Alternative to the Adverbial Theory,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 50: 1990.
“The Amazing Predictive Powers of Folk Psychology,” Australoasian Journal of Philosophy, 70:1992.
“On Thinking Clearly and Distinctly,” Metaphilosophy, 23:1992
“Applied Phenomenology in Philosophical Counseling,” International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 7:1992
“What Neuropsychology Can Tell Us about Consciousness,” Philosophy of Science, 60:1993.
“What is Philosophical in Philosophical Counseling?,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, 13:1996.
“Philosophical Counseling and Taoism: Wisdom and Lived Philosophical Understanding,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 23:1996.
“The Conscious and the Non-Conscious,” in M. Carrier and P. Machamer (eds.), Mindscapes: Philosophy, Science, and the Mind, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 1997.
“Philosophical Counseling and Existential Therapy: On the possibility of a dialogue between the fields,” Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, 9:1997.
“Philosophical Counseling as a Quest for Wisdom,” Practical Philosophy, 1: 2001.
“Beyond Our Perimeter,” Practical Philosophy, 9:2008.
“Philosophical Voices of Self-Transformation,” Journal of Humanities Therapy 3:2012.
“Philosophical Counseling and Self-Transformation,” in: Ed. Elliot Cohen, Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013.
“Philosophical Counseling in Search of Self-Edification,” Overtures: Revue de Philosophie, Theologie, et Psychanalyse, 2:2014.
“Contemplative Philosophy and Philosophical Practice,” in: Ed. Michael Noah Weiss, The Socratic Handbook, LIT Verlag, 2015.
“The Philosophical Gardner,” in: Ed. Lydia Amir, New Frontiers of Philosophical Practice: Expanding Boundaries, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016.
“Philosophical Practice – Quo Vadis?” in: Ed. Stephen Costello, The Philosophy Clinic, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2017.
“New Paradigms for Philosophical Practice,” Journal of Humanities Therapy, 8:2017.
“Deep Philosophy as a Personal Transformative Philosophy,” Philosophical Practice, 13.3:2018.
Literature and spirituality books
Lu: An Inner Journal (in Hebrew), Astrolog Publishing House, 2004.
What Lu Whispered to Me (in Hebrew), Pardes Publishing House, 2016.
Book of Creation (together with Michael Winstrom), Loyev Books, 2017.
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Barrientos Rastrojo, José (2005). Introducción al asesoramiento y la orientación filosófica. Tenerife: Ideapress Publ. pp. 85–100. ISBN 84-86273-91-9. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Ran Lahav Profile". Northern Vermont University. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ↑ "First International Conference on Philosophical Practice". ICPP. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ↑ Borisov, Sergey (2020). "Review of book: Stepping out of Plato´s Cave" (PDF). Haser. 11: 199–212. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ↑ Helskog, Guro Hansen (2019). Philosophising the dialogos way towards wisdom in education: Between critical thinking and spiritual contemplation. Routledge. pp. 95–99. ISBN 978-1-351-03398-5 (ebk) Check
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