Ran Lahav’s Publications

Philosophy Books:

The Deep Philosophy Group: origin, testimonies, practices, (editor, and author of “Who are we?”), Loyev Books 2018.

Philosophical Contemplation: theory and techniques for the contemplator, Loyev Books 2018.

Stepping out of Plato’s Cave: philosophical counseling, philosophical practice, and self-transformation, Loyev Books 2016.

     Translated to German, Italian, Spanish.

Handbook of Philosophical Companionships: principles, procedures, exercises, Loyev Books 2016.

     Translated to German, Italian, Korean, Russian, Spanish.

Oltre la Filisofia: alla ricerca della sagezza (In Italian: Beyond Philosophy: the investigation of wisdom), Apogeo, 2010.

Comprendere la Vita: La consuelza filosofica come ricerza della sagezza (In Italian: Understanding Life: Philosophical Counseling as a Search for Wisdom), Apogeo, 2005.

Essays on Philosophical Counseling, Lanham: University Press of America, 1995. (An edited anthology with second editor Maria Tillmanns).

Literature:

What Lu Whispered to Me (poetic spirituality in Hebrew), Pardes Publishing House, 2017.

Chambers of Heaven (a novel, in Hebrew), Carmel Publishing House, 2010.

Lu: An Inner Journal (a novel, in Hebrew), Astrolog Publishing House, 2004.

Academic Articles (selected list):

“The Philosophical Gardener” in: Lydia Amir, New Frontiers of Philosophical Practice: expanding boundaries, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016.

“Philosophical Practice – Quo Vadis?” in: Ed. Lydia Amir and Aleksada Fatic, Practicing Philosophy, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015.

“Contemplative Philosophy and Philosophical Practice,” in: Ed. Michael Noah Weiss, The Socratic Handbook, LIT Verlag, 2015.

“Philosophical Counseling in Search of Self-Edification,” Overtures: Revue de Philosophie, Theologie, et Psychanalyse, 2:2014.

“Philosophical Counseling and Self-Transformation,” in: Ed. Elliot Cohen, Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013.

“An Interview with Ran Lahav, Philosophical Practitioner,” in Ed. Jeanette Bresson Knox and Jan Friis, Philosophical Practice: 5 Questions, Automatic Press, 2013.

“Philosophical Voices of Self-Transformation,” Journal of Humanities Therapy 3:2012.

“Il potere delle idee nella pratica filosofica,” [“The Power of Ideas in Philosophical Practice”] in: Ed. Cloe Taddei Ferretti and Luca Nave, Pensiero, Meditazione, Ragionamento: La filosofia in esercizio, Milano: Mimesis Editore, 2010.

“Self-Talk in Marcus Aurelius Meditations,” Philosophical Practice, 4:2009. Previously published as “Auto-Conversación de Marco Aurelio en las Meditaciones,” Sophia 5: 2009 (Ecuador).

“What Philosophical Counseling Can Learn from Buber?” (in Italian: “Cosa puo impararela consulenza filosofica da Buber?”) in: Ed. Luca Bertolino, Martin Buber: Colpa e Sensi di Colpa, Milano: Apogeo Press, 2008.

“Beyond Our Perimeter,” Practical Philosophy, 9:2008.

“Philosophical Practice as Contemplative Philosophy,” Practical Philosophy, 8:2006.

“Transcending the Unconscious: Philosophical counseling sessions with Arthur Schopenhauer,” (written with Eli Eilon), in: Peter Raabe (ed.), Philosophical Counseling and the Unconscious, Trivum 2005.

“The Efficacy of Philosophical Counseling: A First Outcome Study,” Practical Philosophy, 4: 2001.

“Philosophical Counseling as a Quest for Wisdom,” Practical Philosophy, 1: 2001.

“Philosophical Counseling and Existential Therapy: On the possibility of a dialogue between the fields,” Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, 9:1997.

“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 Taoism: Wisdom and Lived Philosophical Understanding,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 23:1996.

“What is Philosophical in Philosophical Counseling?,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, 13:1996.

“A Conceptual Framework for Philosophical Counseling,” in: Lahav and Tillmanns (eds.), Essays on Philosophical Counseling, Lanham: University Press of America, 1995.

“Is Philosophical Counseling that Different from Psychotherapy?,” Zeitschrift für Philosophische Praxis, 1:1994.

“A New Challenge for the Physicalist,” Philosophia, 24:1994.

“Phenomenological Tools to Facilitate Self-Change in Philosophical Counseling,” Agora: Zeitschrift für Philosophische Praxis, 11-12: 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.

“The Combinatorial-Connectionist Debate and the Pragmatics of Adjectives,” Pragmatics and Cognition, 1:1993.

“Applied Phenomenology in Philosophical Counseling,” International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 7:1992.

“The Concept of Man as Reflected in Three Approaches to Education,” Sachish: Issues in Special Education and Rehabilitation, 7:1992.

“On Thinking Clearly and Distinctly,” Metaphilosophy, 23:1992

“How to be a Scientifically Respectable ‘Property Dualist’,” with second author Niall Shanks, Journal of Mind and Behavior, 13:1992.

“The Amazing Predictive Powers of Folk Psychology,” Australoasian Journal of Philosophy, 70:1992.

“Between Pre-Determination and Arbitrariness: A Bergsonian Approach to Free Will,” Southern Journal of Philosophy, 29:1991.

“Bergson and the Hegemony of Language,” Southern Journal of Philosophy, 28: 1990.

“Dis-Phenomenalism: An Alternative to the Adverbial Theory,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 50: 1990.

“Against Compositionality: The Case of Adjectives,” Philosophical Studies, 55: 1989.