KEN W. GATZKE Philosophy

JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

"Creationism as Science: What Every Teacher-Scientist Should Know." Science Education (July 1985).

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDINGS:

Paper from the 1989 Wittgenstein Centennial Conference was published in Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Symposium on the Centennial of His Birth, edited by S. Teghrarian, A. Serafini, and E. M. Cook, Wakefield, NH: Longwood Academic Press, 1989.

CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:

"The Natural Nature of Signs of Nature"; paper presented at the joint meeting of the Canadian Society for Aesthetics, the Canadian Society for the Study of European Ideas, and the Society for Philosophy and Geography, at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences [Canada], at the Universitie^' de Sherbrooke, Ontario; June 4, 1999.

"Lost in the World: ET Indy ER"; paper presented at a conference entitled, "The Stories We Tell: Narrativity Across the Disciplines", at Southern Connecticut State University, March 13, 1999.

"What's a 'Meta-' for?"; a commentary on "Physics and Metaphor", a paper delivered by Prof. R. Wein, [SCSU, Physics] in the conference entitled, "The Language of Thought: An Interdisciplinary Interrogation," at Southern Connecticut State University; November 8, 1997.

"Talking Back to Sass"; response to "Paradoxes of Delusion: On Wittgenstein, Shreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind," presented by Louis Sass [Rutgers U.]. Society for Phenomenology and Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, February 26, 1994.

"Pop Tarts and Dancing Ghouls: 1984 Arrived on Time."; paper presented at the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, TX, March 1991.

"Flim-Flam Film: Knights in Declining Favor."; talk at the Meriden Public Library, Meriden, CT, February 1990.

"Wittgenstein Tried a Solipsistic Ethics, but Couldn't Explain it to Gretl."; paper presented at the Wittgenstein Centennial Conference, Fairleigh-Dickenson University, Rutherford, NJ, April 1989.

"Science and Pseudoscience: Why Creationism Cannot be Science."; talk at the Amity Senior High School, December 1989.

"How Architecture May Have Helped Wittgenstein Change His Mind About Philosophy: Or, 'Was Ist Loos in Wien?'"; paper presented at the Eastern Division Meetings of the American Society for Aesthetics, Albany, NY, April 1988.

"Male Fantasies: Porn, Artificial Intelligence and Democracy."; paper presented at the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, March 1988.

"The End of Conceptual Art: A Documentation."; paper presented at the Tenth International Congress of Aesthetics, Montreal, August 1984.

"Interdisciplinary Courses" (panel discussion). Conference of Connecticut Chairpersons of Music Departments, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, November 1981.

GRANTS RECEIVED:

1984 -- Invited to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar entitled "Mies van der Rohe and American Architecture," which met for two months at Columbia University.

1981 -- Selected as member of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar entitled "Germany and Austria in the 1890s," which met for two months at Cornell University.

1977 -- Selected as representative from Southern CT in competition for National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend. Selected as member of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar entitled "Innovative Architecture and Planning in the 20th Century," which met for two months at Columbia University.

OTHER ACTIVITIES:

Designated as Expert Witness in Court Case; Animal Rights Front vs. Arthur Rocque, Commissioner, Department of Environmental Protection, Superior Court, Judicial District of Hartford, at Hartford, CT. [CV 97-0575920 S] Deposed, Spring, 1999. This involved questions about the concept of Nature, something's being 'natural', and the status of hunting as 'humane'.

Consulting editor, Metaphilosophy (1997-present)

Co-Author [with Dan Ort, ENG], 1980, the SCSU Honors College; first Director, Honors College, 1980-82

Letter, Natural History, May, 2000, "...and Scientists Need Philosophers", p. 10 [identifies and refutes widespread mistake in research on non-human animals]

CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:

Paper exploring semiotic theory and the automobile, entitled, "Don't Think and Drive: How the Automobile Altered Meaning."

A proposed refutation of A. Plantinga's alleged solution to the so-called “logical abstract problem of evil”.

A re-thinking of the concepts of nature and ethics. In addition to some further development of the paper "Signs of Nature", I am working on a paper entitled, "How to Stalk, Some Simple Ways," which is an attempt to examine the concept of hunting deer as that relates to interrelations of human and non-human animals.

Writing a novel, tentatively entitled, "NTT: Things That Go Click in the Mind", a techno-thriller concerning computers, the internet, and consciousness.

DISSERTATION TITLE:

Objectivity and Aesthetic Judgment in the Philosophy of Frank Sibley (1974)

INSTITUTION GRANTING PH.D.:

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign