Thinking Out
of the Lunchbox
Dr. David Wood
Professor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Recruitment
Email address: david.c.wood@vanderbilt.edu
Ph.D. University of Warwick
To learn more about this professor read his interview:
Thinking Against the Grain or visit the Day in the Life of Professor David Wood page.
Dr. Wood's interests lie in the possibilities of reading and thinking opened up by contemporary continental philosophy and by nineteenth century German thought. Current philosophical projects include: rethinking the ethics and politics of time; providing an account of truth that does justice both to its normative, 'existential' and metaphysical dimensions; various different approaches to the philosophy of nature (environmental philosophy, animals rights, thinking boundaries etc.). His recent work on Robert Smithson recreates his 1969 trip to the Yucatan. He is the co- director of Vanderbilt's CSRC research group on Ecology and Spirituality. And he is involved in Greening Vanderbilt - promoting a more environmentally responsible campus.
He is also an environmental artist and stages Art Events from time to time. For interviews relating to these and other matters, check out the following additional interviews: Food for the Imagination , Contretemps Interview . And see his art websites chronopod and earth-art, and his entry at the Metro Arts Commission
Representative writing:
* The Step Back : Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction : (SUNY, 2005)
* Truth : A Reader (ed. with José Medina) (Blackwell, 2005)
* Mirror Infractions in the Yucatan (for Robert Smithson) (2005)
* "Some Questions for My Levinasian Friends" in Addressing Levinas , ed. E. Nelson et. al. (Northwestern, 2004)
*Thinking After Heidegger (Polity Press, June 2002)
* The Deconstruction of Time (second edition, Northwestern, 2001)
* "What is Ecophenomenology?" Research in Phenomenology, Vol. XXXI, 2001.
* "Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis: Embodying Transformation" for Interrogating Ethics , edited Jim Hatley and Chris Diem, (Northwestern, 2001)
* "Comment ne pas manger: Deconstruction and Humanism" in Animal Others , ed. Peter Steeves (SUNY, 1999)
* "Kierkegaard, God and the Economy of Thinking", in Jonathan Ree (ed.) A Kierkegaard Reader , Blackwell, 1997
* On Derrida, Heidegger and Spirit (ed. and intro.) (Northwestern, 1993)
* Derrida: A Critical Reader (ed. and intro.) (Blackwell, 1992)
* Philosophy: The Antioxidant of Higher Education
Books in Progress :
* Time After Time [under review at Indiana, 2006]
* Things at the Edge of the World
* Fatal Projections
* Econstruction: Essays on Environmental Deconstruction
Current teaching:
Spring 2006
* Phil 115F Environmental Philosophy
* Phil 260 Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy: Fatal Projections
Fall 2005
* Phil 326 Heidegger: Being and Time
* Phil 247 Kierkegaard and Nietzsche