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1 Zdravko Radman, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy Affiliation: Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb; University of Split (Croatia) Address of Residence: Aronenweg 8, CH-8618 Oetwil am See Curriculum vitae Biographical Data: Education Ph.D. received March Doctor of Humanities. Faculty of Arts, University of Zagreb. (Dissertation: The Role of Symbolic Languages in Articulation of Perception ). M.A. received December Philosophy of Science. University of Zagreb. (Thesis title: Perception in the Context of the Cultural-Historical and the Transcendental ). B.A. received March Comparative Literature (A) and English (B). Faculty of Arts, University of Zagreb. Awards, Grants, Exchange Programs Visiting Fellow, ANU (Australian National University), Canberra; Philosophy Program (RSSS).

2 The J. William Fulbright Program: Research/Lecturing Grant. University of California, Berkeley, Department of Philosophy and Institute of Cognitive Science Research project funded by the Leibniz Forschungspreis (Professor Jürgen Mittelstrass) Postdoctoral research program granted by Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. Department of Philosophy, University of Konstanz and University of Saarbrücken Award of the Zlatko and Joyce Balokovic Scholarship. Special student, Harvard University (Department of Philosophy; Carpenter Center of Visual Arts) Harvard University Scholarship Award for the Harvard Summer School; two intensive courses in Modern Literature and Theory of Art. Short-term projects, exchange programs and visits include among others: Salzburg Seminar (1980), Warburg Institute London (Exchange Program of HAZU with British Academy) (1983), University College London (Royal Society) (1997), and the British Academy (2007). Employment History Since 1994 Institute of Philosophy Zagreb (2004 tenure position) Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Konstanz Institute of Philosophy of Science (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts), Zagreb. Research Interests and Fields of Concentration Interdisciplinary research in the following domains: - Philosophy of Mind (limitations of intellectualism; embodied and embedded knowing; practical understanding; motor intentionality; MI-manual intelligence; the background; phenomenal consciousness). - Philosophy of Language (language and perception; cognitive theory of metaphor; theory of fiction). - Aesthetics (aesthetic dimension of mind; art as a mode of cognition; aesthetics of science). Invited Lecturer (a selection) The Primacy of the Aesthetic, Surplus Art: Art-Science-Philosophy, Ljubljana, October 10-13, Seeing with the Hand s Eye, 10 th Congress of the International Association of Visual Semiotics, Buenos Aires, 8-10 September, "Encultured Embodiment", OPO, Hong Kong, December 16, "The Motivated Movement", University of Tampere, October, 4, 2008.

3 "The Meaningful Brain: An Outline", Institute of Neuroaesthetics, University College London, April 15, Towards Aesthetics of Science, University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters, Dept. of Aesthetics, Tokyo, April 5, Mind: From Underdetermination to Potentiality, MIT, (Brain and Cognitive Science, and Philosophy), Cambridge, MA, April 11, On Underdetermination of Mind, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Dept. of Philosophy, Stony Brook, April 4, "Vom metaphorischen Denken zum metaphorischen Sehen", Gesammthochschule Kassel, Fachbereich Kunst, July 1, "Metaphors and Specification of Meaning", Universität Konstanz, Fachgruppe Philosophie, February 6, Major Organizer of International Conferences at the Interuniversity Centre Dubrovnik (With Chis Frith and John Bargh): The Power of the Nonconscious, October 3-5, 2014 (forthcoming). (With Shaun Gallagher): The Hand: An Organ of the Mind, May 1-3, (With David Chalmers): Consciousness and Thought, August, 26-28, (With Shaun Gallagher and Maxine Sheets-Johnstone): Backgrounding: From the Body of Knowledge to the Knowing Body, October 5-7, (With Matthias Kettner and Hilge Landweer): Embodiment and Normativity (3), March 26-30, (With Hubert L. Dreyfus): Brain, Mind and World: Beyond Cognitivism, June 24-27, (With Finn Collin): Metaphor and Thought-Experiment, October 17-21, Publications Books: Radman, Z. (Ed.) The Hand, an Organ of the Mind. What the Manual Tells the Mental. Cambridge, MA, London: The MIT Press, Radman, Z. (Ed.) The Background: Knowing without Thinking: Mind, Action, Cognition, and the Phenomenon of the Background. [New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science] Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, Radman, Z. Metaphors: Figures of the Mind, Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997 (Hard cover); 2010 (Paperback). Radman, Z. (Ed.) Horizons of Humanity: Essays in Honour of Ivan Supek, Frankfurt am Main/Berlin/Bern/New York/Paris/Wien: Peter Lang, Radman, Z. (Ed.), From a Metaphorical Point of View: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Cognitive Content of Metaphor, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, Radman, Z. Metafore i mehanizmi mišljenja [Metaphors and Mechanisms of the Mind], Zagreb: HFD, 1995, (in Croatian). Radman, Z. Simbol, stvarnost i stvaralaštvo: Ogled o percepciji [Symbol, Reality, and Creativity: An Essay on Perception] Zagreb: HFD, 1988 (in Croatian).

4 Articles and Book-Chapters (a selection; after 1990): Radman, Z. On Displacenent of Agency: The Mind Handmade, in: Z. Radman (ed.) The Hand: An Organ of the Mind. Cambridge, MA, London: The MIT Press, Radman, Z. Beforehand, in: Radman, Z. (Ed.) The Hand, an Organ of the Mind. What the Manual Tells the Mental. Cambridge, MA, London: The MIT Press, xix-xii. Radman, Z. The Background: A Tool of Potentiality, in: Z. Radman (ed.), Knowing without Thinking: Mind, Action, Cognition, and the Phenomenon of the Background, 2012, Radman, Z. Preface, in: Z. Radman (ed.), Knowing without Thinking: Mind, Action, Cognition, and the Phenomenon of the Background, 2012, x-xi. Radman, Z. Corps, cerveau et beauté: La place de l esthétique dans le domain de l esprit, Diogéne- Revue internationale des sciences humaines, 2011, , (Présence des nouvelles esthétiques): Diogene (Chinese Edition), 56, 2012, Diogenes, Body, Brain, and Beauty: The Place of Aesthetics in the World of the Mind (in press). Radman, Z. Synaesthesia, Synthesis, and Aesthetics, in: K. E. Kandt, H. V. von Vogelstein (Hg.), Aus Hippocrenes Quell, Berlin: Lukas Verlag, 2011: Radman, Z. Die Kunst der Wissenschaft: Alexander von Humboldts Erkentniss des Weltganzen, in: Die Welt im Grossen und im Kleinen: Kunst und Wissenschaft im Umkreis von Alexander von Humboldt und August Ludwig Most, Gerd-Helge Vogel (Hg.) Berlin: Lukas Verlag, 2009: Radman, Z. "The Ethical Mind: An Outline", Synthesis philosophica, 21/2, 2006 (42): Radman, Z. "Towards Aesthetics of Science", JTLA - Journal of the Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, Aesthetics, Vol. 29/30, : Radman, Z. "The View from the Background", Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 20/2, 2005: Radman, Z. "Minds in the World. Introductory", Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 20/2, 2005: Radman, Z. "On Tasting the Images", Information Society IS 2004, Cognitive Science, (Proceedings of the 7th International Multiconference), A. Ule, M. Gams, G. Repovs (eds.), Ljubljana, 2004: 120. Radman, Z. "K estetiki znanosti", Filozofski vestnik, Vol. 25, Nr. 1, (Ljubljana) 2004, (in Slovene). Radman, Z. "Towards Aesthetics of Science", Studies in Aesthetics and Science of Art (Bigaku Geijutsugaku Kenkyu), Tokyo, Japan, 21, 2002: , (in Japanese). Radman, Z. "The Art of the Mind: Towards Cognitive Aesthetics", Selected Papers of the 15th International Congress of Aesthetics, Japan ed. by Nishimura, Kiyokazu et al., Tokyo, Japan, 2003: Radman, Z. "The Art of the Mind: Towards Cognitive Aesthetics", The Great Book of Aesthetics, The 15th International Congress of Aesthetics, Japan 2001, Proceedings, ed. by Ken-ichi Sasaki & Tanehisa Otabe (CD ROM). Radman, Z. "Seeing With the Body's Eyes", Synthesis philosophica, 17/1, 2002:

5 Radman, Z. "In the Name of God: Towards a Concept of Virtual Meaning" in: Lieven Boeve and Kurt Feyaerts (eds.), Metaphor and God-Talk (Religions & Discourse Series, 2), Bern/Berlin/Bruxelles/Frankfurt a.m./new York/Wien: Peter Lang, 1999: Radman, Z. "Difficulties with Diagnosing the Death of a Metaphor", Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 12(2), 1997: Radman, Z. "On Literal Lies and Fictional Facts", Images and Reality (Proceedings of the 1996 Miskolc Conference), Gábor Forrai (ed.), Miskolc, 1997: Radman, Z. "Vom Umgang mit dem Unmöglichen oder 'The Place of Fiction in the World of Facts'", in: Schildknecht, C., D. Teichert (Hg.) Philosophie in Literatur, Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp Verlag, 1996: Radman, Z. "In Search for Substance and Structure: Tetradic Model as World-Metaphor", in: Rigotti, F, P. Schiera (Hg.) Luft, Erde, Wasser, Feuer: Die vier Elemente und ihre Metaphern, Bologna: Societŕ il mulino/ Berlin: Duncker & Humboldt, 1996: Radman, Z. "Of Embodied Meanings and the Meaning of the Body", Synthesis philosophica, 19/20, 1995: Radman, Z. "Zum symbilischen Aufbau der Welt", S - European Journal for Semiotic Studies, Vol. 7 (3,4), 1995: Radman, Z. "Künstliche Intelligenz und natürlicher Leib", in: Metapher, Kognition, künstliche Intelligenz, Schneider, Hans-Julius (Hg.), München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1996: Radman, Z. "Fictional Meanings and Possible Worlds", in: Danneberg, L., A. Graeser, K. Petrus (Hg.) Metapher und Innovation: Die Rolle der Metapher im Wandel der Sprache und Wissenschaft, Bern/Stuttgart/Wien: Haupt Verlag, 1995: Radman, Z. "How to Make Our Ideas Clear with Metaphors", in: Radman, Z. (ed.), From a Metaphorical Point of View: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Cognitive Content of Metaphor, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1995: Radman, Z. "On the Limits of Literalness", Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, 46/1, 1992: Radman, Z. "On the Polysemic Chain of Meaning", Encyclopaedia moderna, 2(38), 1992: Radman, Z. "Metaphoric Measure of Meaning: The Problem of Non-Literal Use of Language in Science Reconsidered", Philosophical Studies (Dublin), 33, : Radman, Z. "How is Radically New Knowledge Possible, or: Bridging the New and the Old in a Metaphorical Way", Synthesis philosophica, 6/1, 1991: 55-6