Professorat


En primer lloc contem amb filòsofs assessors en exercici a Espanya:
Rayda Guzmán (doctoranda UB), Xavier Carbonell (doctorando UAB), Dr. Mariano Betés de Toro (UAH), José Barrientos (CSIC investigador), Josep Mª. Carbó (UAB), Enric Carbó, Miquel Pardo

Amb professors de la Universitat de Barcelona: 
Dr. Miguel Candel, Dr. Andreu Grau, Dra. Begoña Román, Dr. Román G. Cuartango, Dr. Manuel Cruz, Dr. Luis Bredlow,  Dr. Jaume Mascaró, Dr. Gonçal Mayos, Dra. Rosa Rius, Dra. Fina Birulés, Dr. Enrique Lynch, Dr. Octavi Piulats.

I amb professors i experts convidats:
Dr. Oscar Brenifier (Universitè de la Sorbonne), Dr. Ran Lahav (Universidad de Haifa), Dra. Carmen Rodrigo de Larrucea (médico y abogada, especialista en derecho sanitario), Profesor Josep Ramoneda (UAB), Dr. Ignasi Roviró (URLL), Profesor Jorge Dias (Universidade Moderna de Lisboa), Dra. Lydia Amir (Universidad de Tel-Aviv), Massimo Desiato, Dr. Juan Antonio Marina, Dr. X. Rubert de Ventós, Neri Pollastri entre otros..
 

 
Dr. Ran Lahav


University of Michigan, Philosophy, 1983-1988, Ph.D. University of Michigan, Psychology, 1987-1989, M.A. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Philosophy, 1979-1982, M.A. (cum laude). Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Philosophy and Psychology, 1975-1979, B.A. (cum laude).

 Haifa University, Assistant Professor, 1993-present (one semester a year).

Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX), Asst. Professor, 1989-1993.

Hebrew University (Jerusalem), Lady Davis Fellowship (Leave from SMU), 1991-1992. The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), Teaching Assistant, 1983-1989.

Main Graduate and Undergraduate Courses Taught: Philosophical Counseling, Philosophy of Psychotherapy, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, Counseling Theories, Philosophies of the Meaning of Life, Philosophies of Freedom, Existentialism, 19-20th Century Continental Philosophy, Epistemology, Ethics, Comparative Religions, Philosophies of Spirituality, Values and Spirituality, Philosophy of Education, Introduction to Philosophy, Critical Thinking, Logic. Co-organizer of First International Retreat of Contemplative Philosophy , Chipiona, Spain, June 2005.

Editorial board member of Practical Philosophy , since 2000. "Mentor" of the American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy since 1996.

Board member of the American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy 1994-7. Initiator and Co-organizer of The First International Conference on Philosophical Counseling , Centre for Applied Ethics, U. of British Columbia, Canada, July 8-12, 1994. Private Philosophical Counselor since 1992.

Publications:

Books :
-Comprendere la Vita: La consuelza filosofica come ricerza della sagezza (In Italian), Apogeo, 2005.
-Lu: Internal Journals ( In Hebrew), Astrolog Publishing House, 2004.
- Essays on Philosophical Counseling , Lanham: University Press of America, 1995.(An edited anthology with second editor MariaTillmanns).
- 3 Educational books in Hebrew (Jerusalem: Ministry of Education Press, 1980, 1982, 1984).

Academic 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.
- "Bergson and the Hegemony of Language," Southern Journal of Philosophy , 28: 1990.
- "Between Pre-Determination and Arbitrariness: A Bergsonian Approach to Free Will," Southern Journal of Philosophy , 29:1991.
- "The Amazing Predictive Powers of Folk Psychology," Australoasian Journal of Philosophy , 70:1992.
- "How to be a Scientifically Respectable 'Property Dualist'," with second author Niall Shanks, Journal of Mind and Behavior , 13:1992.
- "On Thinking Clearly and Distinctly," Metaphilosophy , 23:1992
- "The Concept of Man as Reflected in Three Approaches to Education," Sachish: Issues in Special Education and Rehabilitation , 7:1992.
- "Applied Phenomenology in Philosophical Counseling," International Journal of Applied Philosophy , 7:1992.
- "The Combinatorial-Connectionist Debate and the Pragmatics of Adjectives," Pragmatics and Cognition , 1:1993.
- "Using Analytic Philosophy in Philosophical Counseling," Journal of Applied Philosophy , 10:1993.
- "What Neuropsychology Can Tell Us about Consciousness," Philosophy of Science , 60:1993.
- "Phenomenological Tools to Facilitate Self-Change in Philosophical Counseling," Agora: Zeitschrift für Philosophische Praxis , 11-12: 1993.
- "A New Challenge for the Physicalist," Philosophia , 24: 1994.
- "Is Philosophical Counseling that Different from Psychotherapy?," Zeitschrift für Philosophische Praxis , 1: 1994.
- "A Conceptual Framework for Philosophical Counseling," in: Lahav and Tillmanns (eds.), Essays on Philosophical Counseling , Lanham: University Press of America, 1995.
- "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.
- "The Efficacy of Philosophical Counseling: A First Outcome Study," Practical Philosophy , 4: 2001.
- "Transcending the Unconscious: Philosophical counseling sessions with Arthur Schopenhauer," (written with Eli Eilon), in: Peter Raabe (ed.), Philosophical Counseling and the Unconscious , Trivum 2005.
- "Philosophical Practice as Contemplative Philo-Sophia," (in Spanish), forthcoming in Jose Barrientos (ed.) book on philosophical counseling.
- "Towards Bildung: Have We Gone Far Enough?" forthcoming in: Finn Hansen (ed.), Philosophical Practice - A Question of Bildung .