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Professor Daniel Giberman
Selected for
National Humanities Center 2019 Summer Residency
About the National Humanities Center
The National Humanities Center is the world’s only independent institute
dedicated exclusively to advanced study in all areas of the humanities. Through its
residential programs for scholars, the Center provides researchers with the resources
necessary to generate new knowledge and to further understanding of all forms of
cultural expression, social interaction, and human thought. Through its education
programs, the Center strengthens teaching on the collegiate and pre-collegiate
levels. Through public engagement intimately linked to its scholarly and educational
programs, the Center promotes understanding of the humanities and advocates for
their foundational role in a democratic society.
Dr. Daniel Giberman has been selected for
a summer residency at the National Humanities Center.
The four-week program was created to give humanities
scholars the opportunity to launch a new research project
or make significant progress on an existing one.
Giberman, an assistant professor of Philosophy and
Humanities at the University of Texas at Arlington, will
work on a project that explores contemporary analytic
ontology, a branch of metaphysics concerned with the
nature and relations of being. Specifically, his goal is
to develop an innovative, unified solution to a series
of longstanding philosophical problems concerning
resemblance, time, the mind, and the nature of
fundamentality.
Professor Giberman will join a host of humanities
scholars from universities across the country who will
work together this summer in the National Humanities
Center’s facilities in Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina. They will be assisted in their work by the
Center’s team of librarians who draw on resources from
the extensive holdings of surrounding universities, as well
as collections housed in libraries and archives around the
world.
Scholars who have participated in the Center’s programs
have called it an “intellectual nirvana” and have often
remarked that the contemplative space and community
provided by the Center contributed significantly to the
ultimate quality of their work, which includes over 1,500
published books. Through this program, Giberman looks
forward to leveraging the extended research time to build
upon existing content for both his emerging book, as well
as article-length projects on applied topics such as artwork
persistence and social structures. He hopes his work will
help to usher in a new era for humanities, one that will
lead to a richer understanding of the fundamental nature
of not just the world we inhabit, but the kind of world that
we might inhabit.
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