Curriculum Vitae
  Konrad Talmont-Kaminski
   
Personal Data

Born 01.01.1971 Chojnice, Poland
Citizenship: Dual Australian/Polish
Marital Status: Married with children
Email:konradATtalmont.com ktalmontATbacon.umcs.lublin.pl

   
Areas of
Specialisation
Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind
   
Areas of Competence 20th century Analytic Philosophy, Metaphysics
   
Education PhD - Philosophy - Monash University, Australia 2000
MA - Philosophy - University of Western Ontario, Canada 1995
BA (Hons) - History and Philosophy of Science - University of Melbourne, Australia 1993
   
Dissertation Pragmatic Rationality and the Problem of Induction
Supervised by John Bigelow
Refereed by Cliff Hooker and Alan Chalmers
   
Employment Fellow - Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Vienna, Austria 2007-
Lecturer (Adiunkt) - Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland 2002-

Research Assistant to Prof. Wojcicki - Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland 2000
Tutor - Philosophy Dept., Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 1996-1999
Teaching Assistant - Philosophy Dept., University of Western Ontario, London, Canada 1994-1995
Tutor - HPS Dept., University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 1994
Research Assistant to Dr. John Collier - HPS Dept., University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 1993-1994
   
Academic honours
and awards
Dean's Award, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, 2005, 2006
Postgraduate Publishing Award, Monash University, 2000 (not taken up)
Australian Postgraduate Award, Monash University, 1996 to 1998
Visa Student Bursary, University of Western Ontario, 1994 to 1995
Leon Maszczak Prize, Polish Technical and Professional Association of Victoria, 1994
Melbourne University Postgraduate Scholarship, University of Melbourne, 1994
Dean's Honours List, University of Melbourne, 1993
Dwight Final Examination Prize, University of Melbourne, 1993
Paul Strzelecki Prize, Polish Technical and Professional Association of Victoria, 1989
 
Teaching

Sex and Death: Introductory Philosophy of Biology, UMCS, 2008
Language, Cognition, and Emergence, UMCS, 2008
English translation workshop for doctoral students, UMCS, 2006-2008
Reason and the Emotions, UMCS, 2006
The Externalised Mind, UMCS, 2005
Contemporary Analitycal Epistemology, UMCS, 2005-2006
Ignorance and Superstition, UMCS 2005-2006
Translatorium (Translation Workshop), UMCS, 2003-2008
Rodzaje Pragmatyzmu (Varieties of Pragmatism), UMCS, 2003-2007
Naturalised Epistemology, UMCS, 2003-2007
Wprowadzenie do Teorii Poznania (Introduction to Theory of Knowledge), UMCS, 2003
Ontologia (Ontology), UMCS, 2002-2005
Wprowadzenie do Filozofii (Introduction to Philosophy), UMCS, 2002-2005
Science: its Nature and Development, Monash, 1999
Contemporary Moral Issues, Monash, 1998
Metaphysics, Monash, 1997
God, Freedom and Evil, Monash, 1997
Science, Religion and Witchcraft, Monash, 1996-1998
Reason and Rationality, Monash, 1996
Critical Thinking, Western Ontario, 1994-1995
Science, Life and Mind, Melbourne, 1994

 
Administration Foreign relations coordinator, UMCS 2004-
Bologna process and ECTS coordinator, UMCS 2004-
 
Conference
organisation
Kazimierz Naturalised Epistemology Workshop 2005-
Forum Filozoficzne (Philosophical Forum), Lublin 2004
Beyond Analysis Stream, AAP conference, Melbourne 1999
 
Translation

Wykłady z Logiki z Elementami Teorii Wiedzy (Lectures in Logic with Elements of the Theory of Knowledge), Ryszard Wójcicki (into English, with Patrick Trompiz)

 
Current work in
progress

In a Mirror, Darkly: Superstition as a natural phenomenon
Beyond Analysis: Naturalism and Normativity (with Marcin Milkowski)
The Structure of Empirical Evidence
(with John Collier)
Reference as a pragmatic achievement (with John Collier)

 
Papers "In a mirror, darkly: Does superstition reflect rationality?" Skeptical Inquirer (in press)
"Review of de Sousa, Ronald Why Think? Evolution and the Rational Mind" Philosophy in Review 28.1 (February 2008)
"Review of Koskinen, Heikki, Sami Pihlstrom, Risto Vilkko (eds.) Science - A Challenge for Philosophy?" Philosophy in Review 27.6 (December 2007)
"Review of Wimsatt Re-engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings" Metapsychology Online Reviews 11.52 (December 2007)
"Review of D. Linden The Accidental Mind" Metapsychology Online Reviews 11.37 (September 2007)
"Reason, red in tooth and claw: naturalising enlightenment thinking" (extended version) Georg Gasser (ed.) How Successful is Naturalism (Ontos, Frankfurt, 2007) pp. 183-199
"Review of P. Thagard Hot Thought" Metapsychology Online Reviews 11.27 (July 2007)
"Review of Shook, John and Joseph Margolis (eds.) A Companion to Pragmatism" Philosophy in Review XXVII.2 (April 2007) pp. 145-147
"Active externalism and biosemantics" Guenther Witzany (ed.) Biosemiotics in Transdisciplinary Contexts (Umweb, Helsinki, 2007) pp. 289-294
"Review of S. Haack (ed) Pragmatism, Old and New" Metapsychology Online Reviews 10.47 (November 2006)
"Review of R. G. Millikan Language A Biological Model" Philosophy in Review XXVI.5 (October 2006) pp. 367-368
"Reason, red in tooth and claw: naturalising reason" (abbreviated version) Georg Gasser, Christian Kanzian, Edmund Runggaldier (eds.) Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society XIV (Austrian L. Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg, 2006) pp. 348-350
"Thinking reeds and the ideal of reason" Organon F 13.2, 2006 pp. 161-169
"Book Note: Naturalism in Question , ed. by M. De Caro and D. Macarthur" Australasian Journal of Philosophy vol. 84, no. 1, March 2006 pp. 148-149
"Pragmatist Pragmatics: The functional context of utterances" with John Collier Philosophica 75 (2005) pp. 61-88
"What's to talk about? Conversations, cooperation and realism" in Clovek vo svete kultury, vedy a nabozenstva (FHV, UMB Banska Bystrica, 2005) pp. 89-93
"Znaturalizowany podmiot poznający i normy epistemiczne" Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa 2 [160] 2004 pp. 277-281
"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
"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
"Predictive error and metaphysical realism", JTB-Forum September 2001, http://www.jtb-forum.pl/jtb/papers/
"Commentary on Wójcicki: not pragmatic enough", JTB-Forum June 2001, http://www.jtb-forum.pl/jtb/papers/
"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
"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
"In defence of the naive inductivist", Science and Education vol. 8 no. 4 1999 pp. 441-447
"A whiggish history of induction: isolating the problem", Proceedings of 4th Australasian Philosophy Postgraduate Conference 1996 (Dept. of Phil, University of Melbourne, 1997)
 
Invited Presentations

"Bounded rationality, biases and superstitions", NTNU, Trondheim, Norway (January 2008)
"Superstition as science", Science Forum, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway (January 2008)
"In a mirror, darkly: Does superstition reflect rationality?", Goldsmith's College, London, UK (February 2007), Science and Rationality Workshop, Granada, Spain (May 2007), Philosophers' Rally, Warsaw, Poland (May 2007)
"Reference as a pragmatic achievement", Meaning and intention workshop, Krakow, Poland (December 2006)
"Thinking reeds and the ideal of reason" (in Polish), Philosophers' Rally, Zielona Gora, Poland (May 2005)
"Thinking reeds and the ideal of reason", Slovak Academy of Science (April 2005)
"Workshop: The starting points and end points of philosophical thought: An evaluation of Descartes' and Peirce's positions" (in Polish), Zielona Gora University (November 2004)
"Let's be reasonable: rationality, logic and naturalised epistemic norms" (in Polish), Zielona Gora University (November 2004)
"A pragmatic pragmatics", Analytic Philosophy - its unity and plurality conference, Matej Bel University, Slovakia (October 2004)
"Varieties of Pragmatism" (in Polish), 2nd Polish Philosophy Forum, Bielsko-Biała (May 2003)

   
Other Presentations

"Heuristics, naturalism and pragmatism", Pragmatism and Naturalism Workshop, Tilburg, Holland (May 2008)
"Bounded rationality, biases and superstition" (in Polish), 6th Polish Cognitivist Society Conference, Poznan (April 2008)
"What is this thing called superstition?", Konrad Lorenz Institute Brown Bag, Austria (October 2007)
"Of functions and robots", Interactivist Summer Institute, Paris (May 2007)
"The superstitious thoughts of a rational being" (in Polish), Lublin, Poland (January 2007)
"Fleshing out embodiment: the situatedness of open dynamic systems", Embodied and Situated Cognition, Torun, Poland (November 2006)
"Reason, red in tooth and claw", 29th Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria (August 2006)
"Philosophical groundwork for a naturalised account of reason", Konrad Lorenz Institute Brown Bag Discussion, Austria (July 2006)
"Active externalism and biosemantics", Gathering in Biosemiotics, Salzburg, Austria (July 2006)
"After the a priori", Philosophers' Rally, Opole, Poland (May 2006), University of Granada, Spain (May 2006)
"Combining form and function - distinguishing semantics and pragmatics", with John Collier, European Society for Philosophy and Psychology Conference, Lund, Sweden (August 2005)
"Saving the distinctions: distinctions as the epistemologically significant content of experience", with John Collier, 27th Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria (August 2004)
"The emergence of truth-seeking and other norms in evolved epistemic agents", Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture, Brussels (May 2004)
"Pragmatism and naturalism" (in Polish), KUL Centre, Lublin, Poland (November 2003)
"A naturalist characterisation of reasoning beings", 12th Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science conference, Oviedo, Spain (August 2003)
"What does Haack's double aspect experientialism give us?", 26th Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria (August 2003)
"What we bring to philosophy: the pragmatic basis for realism" (in Polish), Institute of Philosophy, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University (September 2002) and Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science (April 2003)
"Predictive error and realism", Workshop for Theory of Knowledge, Warsaw (October 2001)
"The pragmatist view of rationality", Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science (November 2000)
"Rationality and the Humean sceptic", 21st Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg (August 2000) and Third Summer School for Theory of Knowledge, Warsaw (August 2000)
"Formalism, foundations, and forecast", with John Collier, 11th Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science conference, Krakow (August 1999)
"Observations as the epistemic foundation: comments on E. Sosa", Second Summer School for Theory of Knowledge, Warsaw (August 1999)
and 15 earlier conference papers