Ran Lahav
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Ran Lahav (born April 17, 1954) is an Israeli-born American philosopher who developed philosophical activities for the general public. Since the early 1990s he has given 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[edit]
Ran Lahav received his bachelor's degree in philosophy and psychology from 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.[1][2]
Philosophical career[edit]
In 1992, Lahav joined the then-nascent philosophical practice movement, which seeks to make philosophy relevant to individuals’ everyday lives.[1] In 1993 he taught philosophical counseling at Haifa University,[3] and in 1993 he initiated and co-organized the first international conference on philosophical counseling at the University of British Columbia,[2][4] and edited the anthology Essays on philosophical counseling (1995), the first book in English in the field.[1]
He has developed philosophical methods of self-transformation and contemplative forms of philosophizing (called Deep Philosophy) and used them in group activities.[5] In 2017 he founded the Deep Philosophy Group in which participants contemplate together from their inner depth on short philosophical texts.[6]
Publications[edit]
Philosophy books[edit]
- Essays on Philosophical Counseling, Lanham: University Press of America, 1995. (Edited anthology with second editor Maria Tillmanns). ISBN 978-0819199737
- Stepping out of Plato’s Cave, Loyev Books, 2016. ISBN 978-0998133034
- Philosophical Contemplation, Loyev Books, 2018. ISBN 978-1947515949
- What is Deep Philosophy?, Loyev Books, 2021. ISBN 978-1947515093
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Barrientos Rastrojo, José (2005). Introducción al asesoramiento y la orientación filosófica. Tenerife: Ideapress Publ. pp. 85–100. ISBN 84-86273-91-9.
- ^ a b c "Ran Lahav Profile". Northern Vermont University. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ Romero, Jose Luis (2010). "El asesoramiento filosófico en el ámbito internacional e iberoamericano: nota historiográfica". Revista Internacional de Filosofía Aplicada HASER. 1: 154.
- ^ "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 978-1351033985.
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