Tadeusz W. Zawidzki
Tadeusz W. Zawidzki
Associate Professor of Philosophy
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Tadeusz W. Zawidzki
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(202) 994-6444
Phillips Hall #519
Washington DC 20052
In addition to teaching, Professor Zawidzki is also co-director Mind-Brain-Evolution Cluster.
Professional Activities
Presentations
"The Function of Folk Psychology: Mind Reading or Mind Shaping?"
Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, June 2006.
Talk given at annual meeting of Central Division of American Philosophical Association, Chicago (April 20, 2007).
Talk given at Narrative Alternatives to Theory of Mind Conference, University of Hertfordshire, UK (July 12, 2007).
Awarded George Washington University Research Enhancement Fund for the Mind/Brain/Evolution Cluster, 2008-2011, $104,250.00 (principal author of proposal).
Awarded George Washington University Dilthey/UFF grant for Mind shaping, summer 2008, $8964.00.
Awarded George Washington University Seminar in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, 2008-2009, $2500.00 (co-authored proposal).
Awarded George Washington University Research Enhancement Fund for the Mind/Brain/Evolution Cluster, 2008-2011, $104,250.00 (principal author of proposal).
Awarded George Washington University Dilthey/UFF grant for Mind shaping, summer 2008, $8964.00.
Awarded George Washington University Seminar in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, 2008-2009, $2500.00 (co-authored proposal).
Philosophy of mind, cognitive science, philosophy of science.
Mindshaping, book under contract with MIT Press.
Game Theory and Social Philosophy, book co-authored with Don Ross, under contract with Routledge.
"The Evolution of Imitation," theoretical paper, co-authored with fellow members of Mind-Brain-Evolution Cluster, Francys Subiaul (Speech and Hearing), Chet Sherwood (Anthropology/Hominid Paleobiology), and Marietta Dindo (Mind-Brain-Evolution Cluster Post-Doc).
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30-10:30
Dennett (2007, Oneworld Press)
Papers and Book Chapters:
Zawidzki, T. 2008. The function of folk psychology: Mind reading or mindshaping? Philosophical explorations 11(3): 193-209.
Vancouver, J., and T. Zawidzki. 2007. What determines the self in self-regulation: Applied psychology's struggle with will. In Distributed cognition and the will, edited by D. Spurrett, et al. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 289-322.
Zawidzki, T. 2006. "Sexual selection for syntax and kin selection for semantics: Problems and prospects," Biology and philosophy 21(4): 453-70.
Zawidzki, T., and W. Bechtel. 2005. Gall's legacy: Decomposition and localization in cognitive neuroscience. In Mind as scientific object: Between brain and culture, edited by C. Erneling, and D. Johnson. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 293-316.
Zawidzki, T. 2003. Mythological content: A problem for Millikan's teleosemantics. Philosophical psychology 16(4): 535-47.
PhD, Philosophy, Washington University (St. Louis)