Predrag Cicovacki associate professor Smith 518 (508) 793 2467 pcicovac@holycross.edu Research Interests: Kant, Dostoevsky, Schweitzer, Ghandi; Problems of evil and violence; Theories of Values Special Interests: National Chess Master and honorary member of Alpha Sigma Nu (2004-present) ART, CREATIVITY, AND SPIRITUALITY IN DOSTOEVSKY’S BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, April 10-12, 2008 (Conference Program)

Predrag Cicovacki was born in 1960 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. After receiving a B.A. in philosophy at the University of Belgrade, he came to the United States in 1986 to study Kant with Lewis White Beck, at the University of Rochester. Since 1991, he has taught philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross, where he served as Director of Peace and Conflict Studies (2000-2003) and was the Editor-in-Chief of Diotima: A Philosophical Review.

Predrag Cicovacki was a visiting professor at the University of Freiburg (1998-1999) and a guest professor at The Advancement of University Education in Ethics, The Center for Applied and Professional Ethics, University of Moscow, Russia (June-July 2005). He has guest lectured in the US, China, Germany, India, Japan, Serbia, Taiwan, Montenegro and Russia. Conferences which he has organized at the College of the Holy Cross include: “Kant’s Legacy: A Symposium in Honor of Lewis White Beck,” May 1-2, 1998 and “The Anatomy of Evil,” April 12-13, 2002. He is currently organizing a conference: "Art, Creativity, and Spirituality in Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov,” April 10-12, 2008.

Cicovacki is the author of the following books: Anamorphosis: Kant on Knowledge and Ignorance (1997; Serbian translation 2005), Svet u kome ìivimo: Filozofska ukrštenica (The World We Live In: A Philosophical Crossword Puzzle, 2002), and Between Truth and Illusion: Kant at the Crossroads of Modernity (2002). He is the editor of Essays by Lewis White Beck: Fifty Years as a Philosopher (1998) and Kant's Legacy: Essays in Honor of Lewis White Beck (2001). He is the guest-editor of a special double issue of the Journal of Value Inquiry devoted to Kant's moral philosophy (nos. 2-3, vol. 36, 2002) and is the author of over fifty philosophy papers published in English, Serbian, German, Russian, Chinese and Slovenian. He is the contributing editor to The Ethics of Reverence for Life: Albert Schweitzer’s Philosophical Writings, (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008).