Vida Pavesich

Vida Pavesich specializes in philosophical anthropology and the history of Western philosophy. She is also an artist, working with digital collage.

• Philosophical Anthropology
• History of Western Philosophy
• Environmental Philosophy

• Philosophical Anthropology
• Environmental Philosophy (new)

• UC San Diego, PhD in Philosophy, 2003
• UC San Diego, MA

• Adjunct Professor in Philosophy, California State University East Bay
• Adjunct Professor in Philosophy, Diablo Valley College

• “Working on the Myth of the Anthropocene: Hans Blumenberg and Why We Still Need Philosophical Anthropology,” 2022, New German Critique.
• “Hans Blumenberg: Philosophical Anthropology and the Ethics of Consolation,” in Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology, edited by Phillip Honenberger, Palgrave, 2015.
• “Vulnerability, Power, and Gender: An Anthropological Mediation Between Critical Theory and Poststructuralism,” in Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism, 2014.