Paul S. Miklowitz

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I'm an emeritus professor in the Department of Philosophy at California Polytechnic State University.

• Education 

  • Ph.D., M.Phil., Yale University

  • M.A., University of Chicago

  • B.A., University of California

• Research Interests ("AOS"): German Idealism (especially Kant and Hegel) and its legacy; Nietzsche; Modern and Postmodern Cultural Theory; Consciousness Studies

• Teaching Experience ("AOC"): History of Ancient and Modern Philosophy; Metaphysics and Epistemology; Aesthetics; Ethics and Value Theory; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Law; Medical Ethics

Research

A new book, God, the Soul, and the Limits of Knowledge:  Foundations of Metaphysics and Epistemology in Plato, Descartes and Kant, is now complete and looking for a publisher.  I have a couple of papers in progress on topics that range from the status of philosophy as a discipline straddling the domains of art and science to an extrapolation of Descartes’ dreaming hypothesis through an insight of Kant’s. Most recently, I published an essay about AI and mind; another on the metaphysics of finitude that focuses on the Borges story "The Library of Babel" is with editors. Still another, on Ryle and Heidegger, is in draft form.

See more at Publication Agenda, Selected Publications and my book.

Awards & Honors

• Fulbright National Screening Committee for academic programs in Germany (2010, 2011, 2013)

• Sabbatical Leave, Cal Poly (Fall 2015)

• Sabbatical Leave, Cal Poly (Fall 2008 - Winter 2009)

• Finalist, Cal Poly Distinguished Teaching Award (AY 2005 2006)

• Visiting Fellow, Princeton University

• Faculty Recognition Award for Outstanding Teaching, College of Liberal Arts, Cal Poly

• Teacher of the Year, School of Liberal Arts, Cal Poly

• Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities, Rice University

• Prize Teaching Fellowship, Yale University

• Mary Cady Tew Prize for Scholastic Excellence, Yale University

• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Summer Stipend for study in Germany