Presenter

Bart Schultz

Philosophy / Civic Knowledge Project

Bart Schultz is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Director of the Civic Knowledge Project, and Special Programs Coordinator for the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies. He has published widely in philosophy, including Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Universe (Cambridge, 2004), which won the American Philosophical Society's Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History. Through the Civic Knowledge Project he has developed a number of public ethics programs affording opportunities for UChicago students, staff, and faculty to get involved in educationally relevant ways with the larger South Side community. He also serves on the editorial board of Utilitas, the leading professional journal of utilitarian studies, and on the board of directors of PLATO (Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization), which is the main professional group in the United States devoted to pre-collegiate philosophy.