Werner Krieglstein
Professor, Philosophy/Religious Studies

Tel.: (630) 942-2170
Fax.: (630) 942-3711
Room: IC 3127c
e-mail: krieglst@cod.edu


Areas of Research Interest:
• Theories of Consciousness
• Perspectivism
• Evolution
• Cosmology
• String Theory
• Unified Field Theory


Recent Courses Taught:
• Philosophy 100 - Introduction to Philosophy
• Philosophy 110 - Ethics
• Philosophy 140 - World Religions
• Philosophy 200 - Philosophy of Science
• Philosophy 250 - Introduction to Philosophy of Art


Current Projects:
While finishing my second book Compassion: A New Philosophy of the Other, I am also involved in several independent film projects. I am planning several new books, an Introduction to Philosophy from a Partnership Perspective and an autobiography, I Am an American: An Immigrant Story. I also have several theater projects awaiting a chance to be completed.


Selected Publications, Presentations, Performances, Books:
• "The Dice-Playing God: Reflections on Life in a Postmodern Age" (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1991)
• "Compassion: A New Philosophy of the Other" (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002)
• I performed as Henry Kissinger in the Buffalo THeater production of "Nixon's Nixon" (1998), as the Guru in the independent film "Urban Ground Squirrels" and as Redpeter the Ape in the Velvet Theater Production of Kafka's short story "Redpeter."
• Presented a paper entitled "Compassion: The Focus Point of any Future Philosophy" at the Fourth World Conference of the International Society for Universal Dialogue (Summer, 2001)
• I presented a poster session at the International Conference "Toward a Science of Consciousness" in Skoevde, Sweden on "Collective Orchestration versus Orchestrated Reduction: Is the Collective Mode a New Key to Understand Evolution?" (Summer, 2001)


Education:
Ph.D. University of Chicago

Freie University, Berlin, Germany

Goethe University, Frankfurt, Main, Germany


Awards and Recognitions:
Fulbright Scholarship to study at University of Chicago

University of Chicago Fellowship for Graduate Studies

Jens Jacobsen Award for best paper at World Congress on Violence and Human Co-Existence, Toronto, Canada


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