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Konrad is
an analytically trained philosopher who is working in the area of epistemology
and, in particular, the theory of rationality. His work is influenced by
Peircean pragmatism and by the naturalist approaches that have come out of it,
as well as by current work in the related sciences such as psychology, biology
and cognitive science. Konrad’s basic project is to develop a naturalised
account of rationality understood as our response to the challenge of surviving
in a world whose capacity to affect us outruns us understanding of it.
Konrad
studied in Australia (University of Melbourne) and Canada (University of
Western Ontario) finally finishing his doctorate at Monash University with John
Bigelow. Since finishing his doctorate he has moved to Poland, first working at
the Polish Academy of Science and now teaching at the Marie Curie-Sklodowska
University in Lublin. He has presented his work at numerous conferences in
Australasia and throughout Europe and has published in both English and Polish.
He has also published a number of papers
with John Collier (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) on naturalised
accounts of perception and language. Most recently, he was invited to present
an outline of his current project to the Slovak Academy of Science.
Konrad is
currently working on a full-length manuscript which will present a normative
naturalised account of rationality. The book is being written in English but
with the intention that it be translated into Polish and, ultimately, published
in both languages. He has also been working on a Polish translation of Evidence and Inquiry by Susan Haack.
With John Collier he is working on a series of articles that, when completed,
will add up to two book-length treatments, one of perception, the other of
language.
Publications
- "Foundations, formalism, and forecast" with John
Collier (submitted to AJP)
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"Pragmatist Pragmatics: The functional context of utterances" with
John Collier Philosophica (in press)
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"What's to talk about? Conversations, cooperation and realism" in Clovek
vo svete kultury, vedy a nabozenstva (FHV, UMB Banska Bystrica) (in press)
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"Błąd naturalistyczny czy błąd formalistyczny?"
Rubikon (submitted)
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"Thinking reeds and the ideal of reason" Organon F
(forthcoming)
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"Znaturalizowany podmiot poznający i normy epistemiczne" Zagadnienia
Naukoznawstwa 2 [160] 2004 pp. 277-281
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"Saving the distinctions: distinctions as the epistemologically
significant content of experience" (with John Collier), Johann Christian
Marek, Maria Elisabeth Reicher (ed.) Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig
Wittgenstein Society XII (Austrian L. Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg,
2004) pp. 373-375
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"What does Haack's double-aspect experientialism give us?", Winfried
Löffler & Paul Weingartner (ed.) Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig
Wittgenstein Society XI (Austrian L. Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg, 2003)
pp. 342-344
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"Predictive error and metaphysical realism", JTB-Forum
September 2001, http://www.jtb-forum.pl/jtb/papers/
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"Commentary on Wójcicki: not pragmatic enough", JTB-Forum June
2001, http://www.jtb-forum.pl/jtb/papers/
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"Rationality and the Humean sceptic", Berit Brogaard (ed.)
Rationality and Irrationality: Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig
Wittgenstein Society VIII(2) (Austrian L. Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg,
2000) pp. 167-171
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"Pears' two dogmas of Russell's logical atomism", russell: the
Journal of the Bertrand Russell Archives, New series Vol. 18, no. 2 Winter
1998-99 pp. 117-126
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"In defence of the naive inductivist", Science and Education
vol. 8 no. 4 1999 pp. 441-447
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"A whiggish history of induction: isolating the problem", Proceedings
of 4th Australasian Philosophy Postgraduate Conference 1996 (Dept. of Phil,
University of Melbourne, 1997)
Possible
lecture topics
Advanced
Level
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Contemporary analytical epistemology
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Naturalised theory of rationality
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Naturalised theory of perception
- History
of pragmatism
- History
of naturalism
Basic Level
- General
epistemology
- General
philosophy of science
- General
analytical philosophy
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