B W Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 158785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B W Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | B W |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS B W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Maryland |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-0049-9044 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Between Humans, Cultures, and Climates, Reflections on David W. Johnson’s Watsuji on Nature: Japanese Philosophy in the Wake of Heidegger
As a critical and interpretive introduction to one of modern Japan’s premier philosophers, Watsuji Tetsurō (1889–1960), David Johnson’s Watsuji on Nature: Japanese Philosophy in the Wake of Heidegg
From Imperialistic Universalisms to Radical Cosmopolitanisms
This article argues against imperialistic universalism , understood as the unilateral imposition of the views and values of a particular culture and tradition, and argues for a radical cosmopolitanism that would enable us to understand ourselves as both rooted denizens of local places and as uprooted citizens of the world. Moreover, it argues for the need to engage in a worldwide dialogue among radical cosmopolitanisms. In order to exemplify as w…
The Legacy of Ueda Shizuteru: A Zen Life of Dialogue in a Twofold World
Ueda Shizuteru’s Zen Philosophy of Dialogue: The Free Exchange of Host and Guest
This essay seeks to understand the nature of both interpersonal and intercultural dialogue from the perspective of Zen Buddhism as it has been interpreted, in dialogue with Western philosophy and religion, by the central figure of the third generation of the Kyoto School: Ueda Shizuteru (1926–2019). It examines how Ueda develops a philosophy of interpersonal dialogue on the basis of Zen teachings and practices. In particular, it reveals how Ueda …
Sharing Words of Silence: Panikkar after Gadamer
This article elucidates and interpretively develops Raimon Panikkar's hermeneutics of intertraditional dialogue by way of setting it into sympathetic and critical dialogue with the predominantly intratraditional hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer. It argues that Panikkar's thought enables us not only to appreciate, but also to question the limits of the fundamental roles played by language and tradition in Gadamer's hermeneutics. Panikkar's own h…
Reply to Graham Parkes: Nietzsche as Zebra: With both Egoistic Antibuddha and Nonegoistic Bodhisattva Stripes
Dear Graham,Thank you first of all for, more than twenty years ago, calling on younger scholars such as myself to pursue a comparison of Nietzsche and Nishitani (and East Asian thought more broadly); and thank you, secondly, for your thoughtful and provocative critique of my essay in which, ten years ago, I attempted to do just that.4An “open letter” is a strange genre. In these letters we are at once addressing each other and a public forum, in …
Conversing in Emptiness: Rethinking Cross-Cultural Dialogue with the Kyoto School
As we attempt to engender a dialogue between different philosophical traditions, one of the first – if not indeed the first – of the topics which need to be addressed is that of the very nature of dialogue. In other words, we need to engage in a dialogue about dialogue. Toward that end, this essay attempts to rethink the nature of dialogue from the perspective of two key members of the Kyoto School, namely its founder, Nishida Kitarō (1870–1945),…
Returning the world to nature: Heidegger’s turn from a transcendental-horizonal projection of world to an indwelling releasement to the open-region
Naturalness in Zen and Shin Buddhism: Before and Beyond Self- and Other-Power
This article seeks to clarify the fundamental similarities and differences between the two most prominent forms of Buddhism in Japan: Zen and Shin (or True Pure Land School) Buddhism. While proponents of Zen typically criticize Shin for seeking the Buddha outside the self, rather than as one's ‘true self’ or ‘original face’, proponents of Shin typically criticize Zen for relying of ‘self-power’, which they understand as inevitably a form of ‘ego-…
Heidegger on East-West Dialogue: Anticipating the Event , Lin Ma
Zen After Zarathustra: The Problem of the Will in the Confrontation Between Nietzsche and Buddhism
Zen After Zarathustra:The Problem of the Will in the Confrontation Between Nietzsche and Buddhism Bret W. Davis Is Nietzsche's affirmation of the world and oneself as "the will to power—and nothing besides"1 the path to a self-overcoming of nihilism; or is it, as Heidegger contends, the "ultimate entanglement in nihilism"?2 Is Buddhism the purest expression of a "passive nihilism," as Nietzsche claims; or does it teach a radical "middle path" tha…
Assistance dog placement in the pediatric population: Benefits, risks, and recommendations for future application
Assistance animals have long been recognized for their value in enhancing the lives of adults with disabilities by increasing the physical independence, confidence, and social lives of their handlers. Recently, this concept has been applied to the growing population of children with physical disabilities and developmental impairments, though the benefits and risks of these placements have not been thoroughly assessed. Our study used interviews to…
Re‐inventing offshore Australia: Oceans policy in the post‐unced era
Antarctica as a global protected area: Perceptions and reality
On 4 October 1991 the Antarctica Treaty nations meeting in Madrid signed a Protocol on Environment Protection, banning mining activity for at least 50 years and designating Antarctica as a ‘natural reserve, devoted to peace and science’. This was a far cry from the earlier CRAMRA proposal of 1988, which involved a draft Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities. The path between has been anything but smooth and the pap…
The Impact of UNCLOS III on Australian Federalism
Tasmanian politics 1979: Elections, factionalism and the electoral crisis
The Truth about Geronimo
The Politics of Development: Forests, Mines, and Hydro-Electric Power in Ontario, 1849-1941
Waterpower and Wilderness: Political and Administrative Aspects of the Lake Pedder Controversy
Not that even the truth was easy to discover: different eye‐witnesses give different accounts of the same events, speaking out of partiality for one side or the other or else from imperfect memories
The Truth about Geronimo
The Politics of Development: Forests, Mines, and Hydro-Electric Power in Ontario, 1849-1941
Assistance dog placement in the pediatric population: Benefits, risks, and recommendations for future application
Assistance animals have long been recognized for their value in enhancing the lives of adults with disabilities by increasing the physical independence, confidence, and social lives of their handlers. Recently, this concept has been applied to the growing population of children with physical disabilities and developmental impairments, though the benefits and risks of these placements have not been thoroughly assessed. Our study used interviews to…
Tasmanian politics 1979: Elections, factionalism and the electoral crisis
Antarctica as a global protected area: Perceptions and reality
On 4 October 1991 the Antarctica Treaty nations meeting in Madrid signed a Protocol on Environment Protection, banning mining activity for at least 50 years and designating Antarctica as a ‘natural reserve, devoted to peace and science’. This was a far cry from the earlier CRAMRA proposal of 1988, which involved a draft Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities. The path between has been anything but smooth and the pap…
The Impact of UNCLOS III on Australian Federalism
Waterpower and Wilderness: Political and Administrative Aspects of the Lake Pedder Controversy
Not that even the truth was easy to discover: different eye‐witnesses give different accounts of the same events, speaking out of partiality for one side or the other or else from imperfect memories
Sharing Words of Silence: Panikkar after Gadamer
This article elucidates and interpretively develops Raimon Panikkar's hermeneutics of intertraditional dialogue by way of setting it into sympathetic and critical dialogue with the predominantly intratraditional hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer. It argues that Panikkar's thought enables us not only to appreciate, but also to question the limits of the fundamental roles played by language and tradition in Gadamer's hermeneutics. Panikkar's own h…
Re‐inventing offshore Australia: Oceans policy in the post‐unced era
The Truth about Geronimo
Waterpower and Wilderness: Political and Administrative Aspects of the Lake Pedder Controversy
Not that even the truth was easy to discover: different eye‐witnesses give different accounts of the same events, speaking out of partiality for one side or the other or else from imperfect memories
The Politics of Development: Forests, Mines, and Hydro-Electric Power in Ontario, 1849-1941
The Truth about Geronimo
Tasmanian politics 1979: Elections, factionalism and the electoral crisis
The Impact of UNCLOS III on Australian Federalism
Antarctica as a global protected area: Perceptions and reality
On 4 October 1991 the Antarctica Treaty nations meeting in Madrid signed a Protocol on Environment Protection, banning mining activity for at least 50 years and designating Antarctica as a ‘natural reserve, devoted to peace and science’. This was a far cry from the earlier CRAMRA proposal of 1988, which involved a draft Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities. The path between has been anything but smooth and the pap…
Re‐inventing offshore Australia: Oceans policy in the post‐unced era
Zen After Zarathustra: The Problem of the Will in the Confrontation Between Nietzsche and Buddhism
Zen After Zarathustra:The Problem of the Will in the Confrontation Between Nietzsche and Buddhism Bret W. Davis Is Nietzsche's affirmation of the world and oneself as "the will to power—and nothing besides"1 the path to a self-overcoming of nihilism; or is it, as Heidegger contends, the "ultimate entanglement in nihilism"?2 Is Buddhism the purest expression of a "passive nihilism," as Nietzsche claims; or does it teach a radical "middle path" tha…
Assistance dog placement in the pediatric population: Benefits, risks, and recommendations for future application
Assistance animals have long been recognized for their value in enhancing the lives of adults with disabilities by increasing the physical independence, confidence, and social lives of their handlers. Recently, this concept has been applied to the growing population of children with physical disabilities and developmental impairments, though the benefits and risks of these placements have not been thoroughly assessed. Our study used interviews to…
Heidegger on East-West Dialogue: Anticipating the Event , Lin Ma
Conversing in Emptiness: Rethinking Cross-Cultural Dialogue with the Kyoto School
As we attempt to engender a dialogue between different philosophical traditions, one of the first – if not indeed the first – of the topics which need to be addressed is that of the very nature of dialogue. In other words, we need to engage in a dialogue about dialogue. Toward that end, this essay attempts to rethink the nature of dialogue from the perspective of two key members of the Kyoto School, namely its founder, Nishida Kitarō (1870–1945),…
Returning the world to nature: Heidegger’s turn from a transcendental-horizonal projection of world to an indwelling releasement to the open-region
Naturalness in Zen and Shin Buddhism: Before and Beyond Self- and Other-Power
This article seeks to clarify the fundamental similarities and differences between the two most prominent forms of Buddhism in Japan: Zen and Shin (or True Pure Land School) Buddhism. While proponents of Zen typically criticize Shin for seeking the Buddha outside the self, rather than as one's ‘true self’ or ‘original face’, proponents of Shin typically criticize Zen for relying of ‘self-power’, which they understand as inevitably a form of ‘ego-…
Sharing Words of Silence: Panikkar after Gadamer
This article elucidates and interpretively develops Raimon Panikkar's hermeneutics of intertraditional dialogue by way of setting it into sympathetic and critical dialogue with the predominantly intratraditional hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer. It argues that Panikkar's thought enables us not only to appreciate, but also to question the limits of the fundamental roles played by language and tradition in Gadamer's hermeneutics. Panikkar's own h…
Reply to Graham Parkes: Nietzsche as Zebra: With both Egoistic Antibuddha and Nonegoistic Bodhisattva Stripes
Dear Graham,Thank you first of all for, more than twenty years ago, calling on younger scholars such as myself to pursue a comparison of Nietzsche and Nishitani (and East Asian thought more broadly); and thank you, secondly, for your thoughtful and provocative critique of my essay in which, ten years ago, I attempted to do just that.4An “open letter” is a strange genre. In these letters we are at once addressing each other and a public forum, in …
The Legacy of Ueda Shizuteru: A Zen Life of Dialogue in a Twofold World
Ueda Shizuteru’s Zen Philosophy of Dialogue: The Free Exchange of Host and Guest
This essay seeks to understand the nature of both interpersonal and intercultural dialogue from the perspective of Zen Buddhism as it has been interpreted, in dialogue with Western philosophy and religion, by the central figure of the third generation of the Kyoto School: Ueda Shizuteru (1926–2019). It examines how Ueda develops a philosophy of interpersonal dialogue on the basis of Zen teachings and practices. In particular, it reveals how Ueda …
From Imperialistic Universalisms to Radical Cosmopolitanisms
This article argues against imperialistic universalism , understood as the unilateral imposition of the views and values of a particular culture and tradition, and argues for a radical cosmopolitanism that would enable us to understand ourselves as both rooted denizens of local places and as uprooted citizens of the world. Moreover, it argues for the need to engage in a worldwide dialogue among radical cosmopolitanisms. In order to exemplify as w…
Between Humans, Cultures, and Climates, Reflections on David W. Johnson’s Watsuji on Nature: Japanese Philosophy in the Wake of Heidegger
As a critical and interpretive introduction to one of modern Japan’s premier philosophers, Watsuji Tetsurō (1889–1960), David Johnson’s Watsuji on Nature: Japanese Philosophy in the Wake of Heidegg
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