About D.R. Gruber
D.R. Gruber is Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research bridges the philosophy of neuroscience, body studies, and rhetorical studies.
Gruber received his PhD from North Carolina State University. He has lived and worked all around the world, most recently as a member of the Cognition and Communication faculty at the University of Copenhagen.
Philosophy
D.R. Gruber writes about ontology, consciousness, and panpsychism. Recent work speculates about a solution to the problem of quantum nonlocality by asking "What's it like to be a universe?" Other new work asks whether existence is inherently amorphous. A full list of Dr. Gruber's philosophical works can be found here.
Rhetoric and Persuasion
Gruber started his career focusing on the communication of neuroscience and why people found images of the brain so persuasive. He has since written several pieces on how neuroscience can expand the rhetorical tradition. In a recent 'Forum' for Rhetoric Society Quarterly, he presents the idea of an 'ontological neurorhetoric' that uses mixed methods and interdisciplinary engagement to better understand the embodied contexts of neuroscience studies. Gruber also developed 'affective constitutive rhetoric', and has more recently discussed the need to question and revise Burke's notion of 'rhetorical identification' (here). He is currently co-editing a book on the topic with Dr. Jason Kalin. Generally, work categorized under Rhetorical Studies may be found here.
Art and New Media Projects
A List of Past Creative projects
Contact
David.Gruber@unlv.edu