Tadeusz Zawidzki
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Co-Director Mind-Brain-Evolution Cluster

Current Research Projects

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).

Selected Publications

Books
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.

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).

Awards and Honors

• 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).

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, Washington University (St. Louis)