Dr. Talia Welsh
UC Foundation Assoc. Professor
232H Holt Hall
(423)425-4318
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DR. TALIA WELSH has a Ph.D. from State University of New York. Her main areas of research are philosophy of psychology, phenomenology, 19th & 20th century European philosophy, and Feminist Theory. In particular, she writes on the connection between phenomenology and psychology. She has published articles in French, German, and English and her translation of Merleau-Ponty's Sorbonne Lectures is forthcoming with Northwestern University Press. In the past few years she has presented over 15 conference papers in Honolulu, Belgium, Boston, Philadelphia, Ottawa, and at several other venues. At UTC, she is a core faculty member in the UTC Women's Studies Program.
Dr. Welsh’s recent publications include:
“The Developing Body.” Intertwinings: Merleau-Pontian Reflections on Body, World and Intersubjectivity. Ed. Gail Weiss. (New York: SUNY Press, 2008) pgs. 45-59.
“Child’s Play: Anatomically Correct Dolls and Embodiment.” Human Studies, 30 (3), 2007, pp. 255-267
“Primal Experience in Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy and Psychology.” Radical Psychology, 6 (1), 2007. [peer-reviewed] http://www.radpsynet.org/journal/vol6-1/index.html
“From Gestalt to Structure.” Theory & Psychology, 16 (4), 2006, pp. 527-551. [peer-reviewed]
“Do Neonates Display Innate Self-Awareness? Why Neonatal Imitation Fails to Provide Sufficient Grounds for Innate Self and Other-Awareness.” Philosophical Psychology, 19 (2), 2006, pp. 221-238.
“The Retentional and the Repressed: Does Freud’s Concept of the Unconscious Threaten Husserlian Phenomenology?” Human Studies, 25 (3), 2002, pp. 165-183.
“Das Selbst als Andere: die Ungewissheit des Bewusstseins.” Der Andere—ein alltäglicher Begriff in philosophischer Perspektive. (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2001) pgs. 35-41.
“The Logic of the Observed: Merleau-Ponty’s Conception of Women as Outlined in his 1951-1952 Sorbonne lecture ‘The Question of Method in Child Psychology.’ ” Symposium: Journal of the Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought, 5 (1), 2001, pp. 83-94.
Translation: “Science as the New Religion” Paul Valadier. Nietzsche and the Philosophy of Science. With Lysane Fauvel. Eds. Babette Babich and Robert S. Cohen (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999) pgs. 2241-252.
Books forthcoming:
Translation: Child Psychology & Pedagogy: Maurice Merleau-Ponty at the Sorbonne, Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press) (contracted, at press, anticipated publish date Spring 2010)
Book in preparation:
The Child as Natural Phenomenologist: Primal and Primary Experience in Merleau-Ponty’s Child Psychology. (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press) (under review)
