Alistair Welchman

Professor, Philosophy and Classics

Alistair Welchman

Honors and Awards

Presentations

Invited presentations:
1. ‘The Politics of Pessimism: Schopenhauer and Afropessimism.’ North Texas Philosophical
Association. University of Texas at Dallas. March 31st-April 1st 2023.
2. ‘Schopenhauer’s Mitleid: A Critique of Identification.’ Keynote at Southwest Seminar in
Continental Philosophy 2022. Texas State University, June 1st-3rd 2022.
3.  ‘A Defense of Schopenhauer’s Theory of Compassion.’ Leuven Seminar in Classical
German Philosophy. October 21st, 2021. Respondent: Swami Medhananda (Ayon Maharaj)
(Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University)
4. Response to Stephan Bird-Pollan (Kentucky) ‘Making Conceptual Space for the
Unconscious: From Kant through Schopenhauer to Freud,’ Leuven Seminar in Classical German
Philosophy, Feb 11th 2021.
And some regular presentations:
4. ‘Schopenhauer doesn’t like Schelling.’ 50th Meeting of the North Texas Philosophical
Association. University of Texas at Dallas. March 30th-31st, 2018.
5. ‘Schopenhauer, Metaphysics, Humility and Panpsychism.’ 49th Meeting of The North
Texas Philosophical Association, March 31-April 1, 2017 at the University of Dallas

 

Regular presentations:
4.  ‘Schopenhauer doesn’t like Schelling.’ 50th Meeting of the North Texas Philosophical
Association. University of Texas at Dallas. March 30th-31st, 2018.
5.  ‘Schopenhauer, Metaphysics, Humility and Panpsychism.’ 49th Meeting of The North
Texas Philosophical Association, March 31-April 1, 2017 at the University of Dallas

Grants, Patents and Clinical Trials

Publications

1. Cambridge Critical Guide to The World as Will and Representation (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press: 2022) [co-edited with Judith Norman]
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/schopenhauers-the-world-as-will-and-
representation/13F42C5223365C097F7B14D278EED8F9


2. Arthur Schopenhauer The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2, translated by Alistair
Welchman and Judith Norman and edited by Alistair Welchman, Judith Norman and
Christopher Janaway (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018; Paperback Nov. 2020)
http://admin.cambridge.org/ck/academic/subjects/philosophy/philosophy-
texts/schopenhauer-world-will-and-representation-volume-2


3. Alistair Welchman (ed.) Politics of Religion/Religions of Politics (Dordrecht: Springer
2014) Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, Vol. 8, XIII, 191 p.
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9448-0
http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/religious+studies/book/978-94-017-9447-3


4.  Arthur Schopenhauer The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1, edited and
translated by Alistair Welchman, Judith Norman and Christopher Janaway (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press 2010)
http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/philosophy-texts/schopenhauer-
world-will-and-representation-volume-1

5.  Salomon Maimon Essay on Transcendental Philosophy, edited and translated by Alistair
Welchman, Nick Midgley, Henry Somers-Hall and Merton Reglitz (London & New York:
Bloomsbury 2010)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/essay-on-transcendental-philosophy-9781441113849/


6.  Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman (eds) The New Schelling (London & New York:
Bloomsbury 2004)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-new-schelling-9780826469427/

 
Parts of books:

1. 'Seeing Things: Schopenhauer’s Kant-Critique and Direct Realism’ in Welchman and
Norman (eds) The Cambridge Critical Guide to The World as Will and Representation
(Cambridge University Press 2022), pp. 200-223.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/schopenhauers-the-world-as-will-and-
representation/13F42C5223365C097F7B14D278EED8F9


2. ‘Schopenhauer's Understanding of Schelling’ in Robert Wicks (ed) Oxford Handbook of
Schopenhauer (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020), pp. 49-66 [with Judith Norman]
https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190660055.001.0001/oxford
hb-9780190660055-e-4

DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190660055.013.4


3. ‘Evil in Schelling and Schopenhauer,’ in Douglas Hedley, Chad Meister and Charles
Taliaferro (eds.) The History of Evil in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Vol. IV of Chad Meister and
Charles Taliaferro (eds.) The History of Evil (London: Routledge 2018), pp. 150-166
https://www.routledge.com/The-History-of-Evil-in-the-Eighteenth-and-Nineteenth-Centuries-
17001900/Hedley/p/book/9781138236837


4. ‘Schopenhauer’s Two Metaphysics’ in Sandra Shapshay (ed) Palgrave Schopenhauer
Handbook (London: Palgrave-Macmillan 2017), pp. 129-149.
https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319629469


5. ‘Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy’ in Jens Timmerman and Sacha Golob (eds) The
Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017), pp. 448-
58.
http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/philosophy/history-philosophy/cambridge-
history-moral-philosophy


6. ‘Eternity in Kant and Post-Kantian European Thought’ in Yitzhak Melamed (ed.) Eternity:
A History (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016), pp. 179-225.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/eternity-9780199781867


7. ‘Metafisica e moralità. Il Male in Schelling e in Schopenhauer’ in Alessandro Medri (ed)
La Filosofia tedesca dell’ottocento: Sentieri e percorsi all’alba del XX secolo (Turino: Limina
Mentis 2015), pp. 133-146.


8. ‘Deleuze and Schopenhauer’ in Craig Lundy and Daniella Voss (eds) At the Edges of
Thought: Deleuze and Post-Kantian Philosophy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press [Oxford
University Press in the US], May 2015), pp. 213-252.
http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748694624
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/at-the-edges-of-thought-9780748694631  

9.  ‘Deleuze and the Enaction of Nonsense’ in Tom Froese and Massimiliano Cappuccio (eds)
Enactive Cognition at the Edge of Sense-Making: Making Sense of Non-Sense (Palgrave
Macmillan 2014), pp. 238-265 [with William Short and Wilson Shearin] ISBN: 9781137363350
http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/enactive-cognition-at-the-edge-of-sense-making-
massimiliano-cappuccio/?k=9781137363350


10. ‘Introduction’ to Alistair Welchman (ed.) Politics of Religion/Religions of Politics
(Dordrecht: Springer 2014), pp. 1-10. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9448-0_1
http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/religious+studies/book/978-94-017-9447-3


11. ‘Border Sovereignty’ in Alistair Welchman (ed.) Politics of Religion/Religions of Politics
(Dordrecht: Springer 2014), pp. 51-68. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9448-0_4
http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/religious+studies/book/978-94-017-9447-3
12. ‘Schelling’s Moral Argument for a Metaphysics of Contingency’ in Emilio Carlo Corriero
and Andrea Dezi (eds) Nature and Realism in Schelling’s Philosophy (aAccedemia Press, Turin,
Italy 2013), pp. 27-54.

http://books.google.com/books?id=W0OaAgAAQBAJ  
https://books.openedition.org/aaccademia/460


13. ‘The Art of Willing: The Impact of Kant’s Aesthetics on Schopenhauer’s Conception of the
Will’ in Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca and Margit Ruffing (eds.) Kant und die
Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht (Berlin: de Gruyter 2013), Band 5: Wissenschaft,
Mathematik, Naturphilosophie, pp. 627-38.
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/119353


15. ‘The Question of Romanticism’ in Alison Stone (ed.) The Edinburgh Critical History of
Philosophy: Volume 5—The Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh University Press/Columbia
University Press 2011), pp. 47-68 [with Judith Norman]

20. ‘Deleuze and Deep Ecology’ in Bernd Herzogenrath (ed.) An (Un)easy Alliance: Thinking
the Environment with Deleuze/Guattari (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press 2008), pp. 116-
13821. ‘Introduction’ to The New Schelling (New York: Continuum 2004) [with Judith Norman]
22. ‘Kant, Affinity, Judgement’ in Andrea Rehberg and Rachel Jones (eds.) The Matter of
Critique (Manchester: Clinamen Press 2001), pp. 202-221
23. ‘Deleuze: Into the Abyss’ in Simon Glendinning (ed.) The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of
Continental Philosophy, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 1999), pp. 615–27
24. ‘Differential Practices’ in Deepak Sawhney (ed.) Must we Burn Sade? (New York:
Prometheus Books 1999), pp. 159–81

25. ‘Funking up the Cyborg’ on Mark Dery (ed.) Flame Wars (Durham, NC & London: Duke
University Press 1994) in Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 14 No. 4 (November 1997), pp. 155-62
[invited review article subject to editorial review]
26. ‘Machinic Thinking’ in Keith Ansell-Pearson (ed.) Deleuze and Philosophy (London:
Routledge 1997), pp. 211–33; reprinted in Gary Gensko (ed.) Critical Assessments: Deleuze and
Guattari, 3 Vols (London: Routledge 2000), Vol. 3 Deleuze and Guattari, pp. 211-27
It also missed some articles:
27. ‘Dissipating the Logogram,’ in Parallax 1 Cultural Studies and Philosophy (September
1995), pp. 67–80
28. ‘On the Matter of Chaos,’ in Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 4, Nos. 1-2
(1992), pp. 137–157


Smaller things:
1. ‘Deleuze,’ major entry in John Protevi (ed.) Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental
Philosophy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2006), pp. 131-38
2. ‘Materialism’ major entry in John Protevi (ed.) Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental
Philosophy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2006); US edition (New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press 2006), pp. 388-91
3. ‘Schopenhauer’ major entry in John Protevi (ed.) Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental
Philosophy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2006); US edition (New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press 2006), pp. 522-23
4. ‘Abstract Machine’ (p. 4), ‘Assemblage’ (pp. 41-42), ‘Body Without Organs’ (pp. 71-72),
‘Desiring-Production’ (pp. 145), ‘Deterritorialization’ (pp. 146-47), ‘Haecceity’ (pp. 265),
‘Plateau’ (pp. 453), ‘Rhizome’ (pp. 499-500), ‘Schizoanalysis’ (pp. 519-20), ‘Stratification’ (pp.
557-58), ‘War Machine’ (pp. 603-604) minor entries in John Protevi (ed.) Edinburgh Dictionary
of Continental Philosophy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2006); US edition (New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press 2006)