University of Illinois, Springfield, USA
Associate Professor, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland
Address:
Department of Philosophy, UIS
One University Dr, UHB 3076
Springfield, IL 62703, USA
Tel: 217-206-7422 Email:
pbolt1@uis.edu
Philosophy of Mind , Social Capital Theory
1. Two Doctorates in Philosophy:
Ph.D. in Moral and Political Philosophy, June 1998, Bowling Green State University, USA
Dissertation: Morality and Particularity. Advisor: R. G. Frey
Available at: Bell & Howell Company, UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor MI 1998
Doctor of Philosophy and Sociology, January 1991,Warsaw University, Poland
Dissertation: The problem of Subject and Object in English and American Philosophy after Peter Strawson.
Advisor: Janusz Kuczynski
2. Other Graduate Education
Visiting Graduate Student, Princeton University, January 2001-January 2002
Advisor: Bas van
Fraassen
Master of Philosophy, June
1986,
Warsaw University, Poland
Sub-discipline: Ancient Philosophy (Plato).
Thesis: Paradox of Openness in Plato's
Metaphysics.
3.
Main Grants and Fellowships
Fellow, Faculty Summer Institute on Learning Technologies, UIUC, May, 2000
Visiting Scholar, St. John's College, Oxford University, UK June-July 1988
Visiting fellow, UNESCO, Paris, France, October 1986
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Springfield, 2002-present
Associate University Professor, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, 2004-present
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Springfield, 1998 – 2002
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College, Northfield MN, 1996-8.
Senior Lecturer, College of Public Communications, Warsaw Poland 1990-96.
Assistant, Warsaw University, Recent History of Philosophy, Warsaw University 1986 –1991.
1. Professional Boards
Member, Committee on Philosophy and Computers of the American Philosophical Association, May 2004 – present
co-Editor, H-Net for Online Education in the Humanities, 2004-present
International co-Editor, Dialogue and Universalism, 2001-present
Editorial Board Member, E-Mentor, Warsaw School of Economics, 2004-present
Editorial Board Member, Filozofia i Egzystencja, Szczecin University, 2005-
Board Member, Community Technology Centers, State Grant, LLCC, 2001-2004
President of the International Association of Young Philosophers, elected at the World Congress of Philosophy in Brighton 1988 – till the World Congress on Violence, Montreal 1993.
Editor of Polrocznik Filozoficzny Mlodych 1986-1988
3. Other Functions
Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Springfield, 2003 - present
Director, Community Outreach Partnership Center, UIS, 2003-2005
Associate Director, Community Outreach Partnership Center, UIS, 2002-2003
Member, Committee on Ethics and Human Values at the Memorial Medical Center, Springfield Illinois 1999-2002
Member, Campus Senate, University of Illinois at Springfield, 2000-2002
Recipient, HUD Best Practice “Local” Award, Community Partnership Program (award as a part of a team), University of Illinois Springfield 2000
Internal Reviewer of Federal New Directions Grants, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Washington D.C. June 2000.
Adviser to Lech Walesa’s Presidential Campaign, responsible for the culture portfolio, Poland Fall 1990
Batory Visiting Scholar, St. John’s College
Award of the Minister of Higher Education
UNESCO, Visiting fellow, Paris.
Oxford 1988
Warsaw 1986
France 1986
“Non-Homogenous
Moral Space” in: Ethics and Modernity” (A. Kozakiewicz ed.) Poznan
University Press [2005]
“Ethics versus Partiality” in: Analiza and Egzystencja (Analysis and Existence) issue 2, Szczenin University [2005]
“Trends in Academic eLearning” in: Rozwój e-edukacji w ekonomicznym szkolnictwie wyższym, FPAKE, (ed. M. Dąbrowski i M. Zając) [2005]
“Is There an Inherent Moral Value in the Second-Person Relationships?” in: Abbarno, John (ed.) Inherent and Instrumental Value, University Press of America [2005]
“Another Take on Game-Based Learning” (with N. Boltuc) E-Mentor, SGH, April 2004
“Education Without Distance” (pol.) E-Mentor, SGH, October 2003, pp. 8-14;
available in print and online at www.e-mentor.edu.pl
“Moral Neighborhoods” Dialogue and Universalism 5/2001 pp. 117-133.
"Why Russia is Needed for Regional
Stability; an Application of Institutional Economics for Security Issues." in:
Roger E. Kanet (ed.)
"Post-Communist States in the World Community," Macmillan
1998 pp.62-83
“Reductionism and Qualia” in: Epistemologia. 4/1998 pp.111-130
“Why Emeralds are Not Grue A Case for Pragmatic Simplicity” in: Eidos 6/1998 pp.7-36
“Qualia, Robots and Complementarity of Subject and Object” World Congress of Philosophy, Boston 1988 http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Mind/MindBolt.htm
“Emergent Properties of Choice” World Congress of Philosophy, Boston 1998
http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Econ/EconBolt.htm
"Does Equality Have an Independent Moral Value?", Dialogue and Universalism, 10/1995 pp. 123-155
"Understanding Action" with Edward McClennen (book review of Schick, Frederick: "Understanding Action") Economics and Philosophy vol. 11/2/1995
Translation of: Jaki, Stanley: God and the Cosmologists (published in Wroclaw, Poland) 1995
"Person as a Locus of Permanence: Towards Albert Shalom’s Metaphysics", Dialectics and Humanism, 2/1990 pp. 213-234
"Problems of Theory of Knowledge Seen by Social Philosophy"
("Problemy teorii wiedzy w perspektywie filozofii i socjologii spolecznej")Ruch Filozoficzny 1/1989
"In the Beginning was a
Contradiction: Selected Problems of Philosophy of Subject and Object
"
Dialectics and Humanism, 3-4/1988 pp. 177-185
"Le Sujet et la Religion" (The Self
and Religion) The International Congress of French Language Philosophy,
Hammamet,
Tunisia, 1991 (proceedings)
“For the New Ethos of Being” The Young Philosopher’s International Review 1988
"Reification of the Subject in the Modern Philosophy." (Uprzedmiotowienie podmiotu w filozofii nowozytnej) Humanistyka, 1/1988
“Three Worlds of Christian-Marxist Encounter” (rev.) Dialectics and Humanism, 1/1987
"Contribuire alla sviluppo della personalita." Interview by Mario Castellano, Uomini e libri, Milano, Italy, 10-11/1987
“Some Axiological Consequences of the Carthesian Ontology.” (O pewnych aksjologicznych konsekwencjach ontologii Kartezjusza) Humanistyka 1987
"Introduction to the Complementary Philosophy." (Wprowadzenie do filozofii komplementarnej), Colloquia Communia, 4/1987
"In Quest of Openness." (W poszukiwaniu otwartosci), Colloquia Communia, 3-6/1985 pp. 303-306
"Mysticism and Praxis." (Mistyka i praxis) Colloquia Communia, 1/1985 p.199-211
“Ideas of the Complementary Philosophy” (Idee filozoff komplementarnej) Przypis 1/1984
"‘Parmenides’, Introduction to
Plato’s Dialectics."
('Parmenides' jako
wprowadzenie do dialektyki Platona), Studia Filozoficzne, 10/1984
PAPERS PRESENTED (A SELECTION)