Lebenslauf

Forschungsaufenthalte

• Universität Koblenz-Landau: Institut für Kulturwissenschaften / Seminar Philosophie, May 2014 – April 2016, Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, advisor: Prof. Dr. Matthias Jung.

• Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg: Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies / Philosophisches Seminar, September 2012 – February 2013, consultant – prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans Joas.

• Central European University, Budapest, Department of Cognitive Science, summer school titled: Problems of the Self, June – July 2012.

• University of Toledo (OH), USA, Department of Philosophy, August 2011 – May 2012, J. William Fulbright Visiting Researcher, consultant – Dist. Univ. Prof. James Campbell, Ph.D.

• Monterey Institute of International Studies (CA), USA, July 2011 – August 2011 (Fulbright preparatory seminar of English for academic purposes).

• University of Wrocław, PL, Institute of Philosophy,February - July 2009, Erasmus programme.

Stipendien und Auszeichnungen

• 2014 – 2016: Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany: Institut für Kulturwissenschaften / Seminar Philosophie.

• Peer-reviewer for: Filosofický časopis, Praha: Filosofický ústav akademie věd ČR, ISSN 0015-1831. [Journal of Philosophy, Prague: Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences].

• 2012 – dean’s grant at the Masaryk University, project: G. H. Mead’s Pragmatism and Contemporary Cognitive Sciences.

• 2011 - 2012 – J. William Fulbright scholarship, Department of Philosophy, University of Toledo (OH), USA, consultant – Dist. Univ. Prof. James Campbell, Ph.D.

• 2008 - 2010 – co-researcher of the Czech nationwide research project Hermeneutics, Pragmatism and Contemporary Philosophy in the USA.

• 2005 - 2009 – stipendist of the Polish governmental foundation Semper Polonia.

Publikationen

Monograph:

1. Madzia, R. (2014). George Herbert Mead: tělo, mysl a svět [George Herbert Mead: Body, Mind, and World]. Praha: TRITON. 235 pp.

2. Hroch, J., Šíp, R., Madzia, R., Funda, O. (2010): Pragmatismus a dekonstrukce v anglo-americké filozofii [Pragmatism and Deconstruction in the Anglo-American Philosophy]. Brno: Paido. 330 pp.

Further publications:

Publications with peer review process:

1. Madzia, R. (to appear 2015): Only a God Can Save Us: Richard Rorty’s Philosophy of Social Hope Beyond Anti-Clericalism. In: Richard Rorty and Beyond, Eds. Auxier, R., Skowroński, K. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Press).

2. Madzia, R. (2013): Constructive Realism: In Defense of the Objective Reality of Perspectives. 23(4), 645-657.

3. Madzia, R. (2013):. In: George Herbert Mead in the Twenty-first Century, Eds. Burke, T., Skowroński, K. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Press), 61-70.

4. Madzia, R. (2013): Chicago Pragmatism and the Extended Mind Theory: Mead and Dewey on the Nature of Cognition. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, 5(1), 279-297.

5. Madzia, R. (to appear Autumn 2013): Mead and Self-embodiment: Imitation, Simulation and the Problem of Taking the Attitude of the Other”. In: Potentiale einer pragmatischen Sozialtheorie. Beiträge anlässlich des 150. Geburtstags von George H. Mead, Eds. Ofner, F., Nungesser, F. (Wiesbaden: VS Verlag).

6. Madzia, R. (2012): Povznášející teologie: rortyánské úvahy o filozofii náboženství [Edifying Theology; Rortyan Meditations on Philosophy of Religion], Filosofický časopis, Praha: Filosofický ústav akademie věd ČR, 60(6), 833-848.

7. Madzia, R. (2008): Co je skeptického na filosofii Richarda Rortyho? [What’s Sceptical About Richard Rorty’s Philosophy?]. Profil (Elektronický časopis pro filozofii), Brno: Katedra filosofie FF MU, 9(2).

Publications without peer-review process:

1. Madzia, R. (2014). A book review of: Ryder, J.: The Things in Heaven and Earth: An Essay in Pragmatic Naturalism. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2013. [Reviewed in: Education and Culture: The Journal of the John Dewey Society, West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 30(2), 111-115].

2. Madzia, R. (2012): A book review of: Rorty, R.: An Ethics for Today: Finding Common Ground Between Philosophy and Religion. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2011. [Reviewed in: Pragmatism Today, Budapest: Central-European Pragmatist Forum, 3(1), 173-178].

3. Madzia, R. (2012): A book review of: Pihlström, S. (Ed).: The Continuum Companion to Pragmatism. New York, NY: Continuum Publishing Groups Inc., 2011. [Reviewed in: Human Affairs, A postdisciplinary Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Bratislava: Slovak Academy of Sciences, 22(1), 100-108].

4. Madzia, R., Hickman, L. (2012): Pragmatismus jako filozofie technologické kultury (rozhovor) [Pragmatism as a Philosophy for Technological Culture (interview)]. Filosofický časopis, Praha: Filosofický ústav akademie věd ČR, 60(5), 737-751.

5. Madzia, R. (2012): Zpráva z výroční konference: “Society for the Advancement of the American Philosophy” [A report from the annual conference of the “Society for the Advancement of the American Philosophy”]. Filosofický časopis, Praha: Filosofický ústav akademie věd ČR, 60(3), 789-793.

6. Madzia, R. (2011): A book review of: Boersema, D.: Pragmatism and Reference. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009. [Reviewed in: Human Affairs, A postdisciplinary Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Bratislava: Slovak Academy of Sciences, 21(3), 316-325].

7. Madzia, R. (2011): A book review of: Silva, F. C.: G. H. Mead: A critical Introduction. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2007 [Reviewed in: Pragmatism Today, Central Europe: Central-European Pragmatist Forum, 2(1), 155-162].

8. Madzia, R. (2011): Zpráva z konference: “American and European Values VII: International Conference on George H. Mead at 80th Anniversary of His Death” [A conference report from: “American and European Values VII: International Conference on George H. Mead at 80th Anniversary of His Death”]. Filosofický časopis, Praha: Filosofický ústav akademie věd ČR, 59(5), 789-793.

9. Madzia, R. (2010): A book review of: Wisnewski, J. J.: The Politics of Agency: Towards a Pragmatic Approach to Philosophical Anthropology. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2008. [Reviewed in: Human Affairs, A postdisciplinary Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Bratislava: Slovak Academy of Sciences, 20(1), 77-85].

10. Madzia, R. (2010).A conference report: “The Philosophy of Pragmatism Today”]. Filosofický časopis, Praha: Filosofický ústav akademie věd ČR, 58(5), 779-782.

11. Madzia, R. (2009): A book review of: Pappas, G. F.: John Dewey's Ethics: Democracy as Experience. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008. [Reviewed in: Human Affairs, A postdisciplinary Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Bratislava: Slovak Academy of Sciences, 19(3),  320-327].

12. Madzia, R. (2009): A book review of: Šíp, R. Pragmatismus mezi jazykem a zkušeností [Pragmatism Between Language and Experience]. Brno: Paido. [Reviewed in: Profil (Elektronický časopis pro filozofii), Brno: Katedra filosofie FF MU, 10(1), 5 pp.].

13. Madzia, R. (2008). Zpráva z konference “Identity and Social Transformation” [A conference report: “Identity and Social Transformation”]. Filosofický časopis, Praha: Filosofický ústav akademie věd ČR, 56(5), 795-799.

Vorträge

Invited university talks:

• Madzia, R. “The Forgotten Alliance: On the Phenomenological Origins of George H. Mead‘s Concept of the Life-world.” In Grup d'Estudis Fenomenològics (phenomenological colloquium), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 24.04.2015.

• Madzia, R. “Explosionen, erschreckte Chemiker und denkende Köpfe: Wilhelm Dilthey‘s Auseinandersetzung mit dem Problem des Phänomenalismus”. In Kolloquium Kulturwissenschaft, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany, 28.01.2015.

• Madzia, R. “Against Mediational Epistemology: Language, Content, and Reconstruction of Experience”. In Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia (joint philosophical colloquium of: Universidad Complutense, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), Madrid, Spain, 22.01.2015.

• Madzia, R. “Full Bodies, Empty Heads: The Social Construction of Normativity in George H. Mead’s Thought”, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany, 17.06.2014.

• Madzia, R. “An Enactive Theory of the Social Mind: Why We Should (Still) Adhere to Mead’s Views on Imitation“. In Mente, linguaggio, società: La lezione di G. H. Mead, a 150 anni dalla nascita, Università della Calabria, Cosenza, Italy,

• Madzia, R. “Mind, Nature, and the Objective Reality of Perspectives“. In Philosophical Colloquium, University of Toledo, OH, USA, 12. 04. 2013.

• Madzia, R. “Representation Worldward-bound: Reconsidering the Epistemology of Mead and Dewey“. In Philosophical Colloquium, University of Toledo, OH, USA, 27. 04. 2012.

Conference presentations abroad:

• Madzia, R. “Peirce and the Cartesian Guilty Conscience: Embodied Mind and Its Lessons for the Semiotic Theory of the Self”. In Charles S. Peirce – Pragmatic Challenges for the Contemporary Scientific Thought, University of Presov, Slovakia, 20.03.2015.

• Madzia, R. “Habits – vehicles of enactive cognition”. In Alternative Models of the Mind, University of Memphis, Memphis (TN), USA, 23.10.2014.

• Madzia, R. “Inquiry and the Primacy of the Aesthetic: The Concept of Life-World in the Philosophy of George H. Mead”. In Central European Pragmatist Forum, Wrocław, Poland, 12.6.2014.

• Madzia, R. “Communication and Self-Awareness: An Embodied Challenge to Radically Intersubjectivist Theories of the Self”. In Pragmatism and Communication, University of Helsinki, Finland, 04.06.2014.

• Madzia, R. “Only a God Can Save Us: Richard Rorty’s Philosophy of Social Hope Beyond Atheism“. In American and European Values IX: Richard Rorty and Beyond, Opole, Poland, 02. 08. 2013.

• Madzia, R. “Cognitive Symbiosis: Elaborating on Margolis’s Thesis of the Entanglement Between the Knower and the Known“. In Metaphysics of Culture – The Philosophy of Joseph Margolis, University of Helsinki, Finland, 20. 5. 2013.

• Madzia, R. “Mead and Self-Embodiment: Imitation, Simulation, and the Problem of Taking the Role of the Other“. In George H. Mead at 150, University of Chicago, USA, 18. 04. 2013.

• Madzia, R. “Constructing the World in Action: Contemporary Appropriations of the Classical Pragmatist Theme“. In The 20th Annual Kent State University Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, Kent, OH, USA, 16. 03. 2013.

• Madzia, R. “Saving the Notion of Representation: Some New Pragmatic Perspectives on the Troublesome Old Term“. In The 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Galloway, NJ, USA, 07. 03. 2013.

• Madzia, R. “Mead, Dewey, and Extended Cognition: The Relevance of the Chicago School for Contemporary Cognitive Science“. In The First European Pragmatism Conference, Rome, Italy, 19. 09. 2012.

• Madzia, R. “Rationality of Action in the Philosophy of George H. Mead“. In The 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, New York City, USA, 16. 03. 2012.

• Madzia, R. “Comments on David Woods’s ‘Achieving Dewey’s Vision of a Radical Democracy: The Necessary Contributions of George Herbert Mead’“. In The 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, New York City, USA, 15. 03. 2012.

• Madzia, R. “Comments on Shane Ralston’s ‘A Deweyan Defense of Guerrilla Gardening’“. In The 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, New York City, USA, 15. 03. 2012.

• Madzia, R. “What Can Mead Teach Us About the Private Language Problem?“ In American and European Values VII: International Conference on George Herbert Mead at 80th Anniversary ofHis Death, Opole, Poland, 24. 06. 2011.