David Kolb

Interview

• "An Analysis of the concept of hypertext" (Rome, 27/10/97)

Biography

David Kolb (dkolb@bates.edu) grew up in the New York City suburbs and received his PhD in philosophy from Yale University. He is currently the Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Bates College in Maine. He previously taught at Fordham University, the University of Chicago and Nanzan University in Japan.

Kolb worked briefly in a city planning office in Baltimore but has spent most of his life teaching and writing philosophy. Kolb's hypertext, Socrates In The Labyrinth: Hypertext, Argument, Philosophy, explores the nature of argument in linear and hypertextual space. He has also edited a book of studies of Hegel, and published essays on topics in the history of philosophy, postmodernism in architecture and philosophy and non-linear writing.

Bibliography

His published works include:

• The Critique of Pure Modernity: Hegel, Heidegger and After, University of Chicago Press (a comparison of Hegel and Heidegger and their views on modernity).
• Postmodern Sophistications, University of Chicago Press (a discussion of the role of tradition in philosophy and architecture).

Among the numerous articles he has published:

• "On the Objective and Subjective Grounding of Knowledge", translation, with introduction and notes, of an essay by the Neo-Kantian Paul Natorp, in the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 1981, 245-261.
• "Language and Metalanguage in Aquinas", in the Journal of Religion, 1981, 428-432.
• "Socrates and Stories", in Spring, 1981, 177-184.
• "Sellars on the Measure of All Things", in Philosophical Studies, 1979, 381-400.
• "Ontological Priorities: A Critique of the Announced Goals of Descriptive Metaphysics", in Metaphilosophy, 1975, 238-258.
• "Time and the Timeless in Greek Thought", in Philosophy East-West, 1974, 137-143.