Vida Pavesich
Adjunct Professor
Part-Time Faculty
Biography
Vida Pavesich specializes in philosophical anthropology and the history of Western philosophy. She is also an artist, working with digital collage.
Expertise
- Philosophical Anthropology
- History of Western Philosophy
- Environmental Philosophy
Research Areas
- Philosophical Anthropology
- Environmental Philosophy (new)
Education
- UC San Diego, PhD in Philosophy, 2003
- UC San Diego, MA
Prior Experience
- Adjunct Professor in Philosophy, California State University East Bay
- Adjunct Professor in Philosophy, Diablo Valley College
Selected Publications
- “Working on the Myth of the Anthropocene: Hans Blumenberg and Why We Still Need Philosophical Anthropology,” 2022, New German Critique.
- “Hans Blumenberg: Philosophical Anthropology and the Ethics of Consolation,” in Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology, edited by Phillip Honenberger, Palgrave, 2015.
- “Vulnerability, Power, and Gender: An Anthropological Mediation Between Critical Theory and Poststructuralism,” in Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism, 2014.