My research has focused on notional variants of the truth-concept, and I have used empirical studies to uncover that there is likely more than one folk truth concept. Jeremy Wyatt has called this conceptual pluralism about truth (see his "Truth in English and Elsewhere: An Empirically-Informed Functionalism"), which Nikolaj Pedersen and Cory Wright have categorised amongst platitude-based strategies of alethic pluralism (cf. "Pluralist Theories of Truth," Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy). I have defended this view in my book Commonsense Pluralism about Truth: An Empirical Defence (Palgrave Macmillan 2017).
Beyond this, my areas of research interest include metaphysics, especially philosophy of action and philosophy of language. I tend to invest some of my time on specific historical figures, such as Marja Kokoszyńska-Lutman (amongst other members of the Lvov-Warsaw School), Arne Næss, Alfred Tarski, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Long-term, I am considering the relatively monumental task of writing an intellectual biography of Arne Næss. More information about my research is available here and drafts of work in progress are available here.
Books:
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Joseph Ulatowski, Why Facts Matter (in preparation)
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Robert Colter and Joseph Ulatowski, The Socratic Classroom (in preparation)
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Joseph Ulatowski, Commonsense Pluralism about Truth: An Empirical Defence. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edited volumes:
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Joseph Ulatowski, Aaron Griffith, David Kashtan, and Cory Wright (eds.). Australasian Philosophical Review, featuring the work of Gila Sher (forthcoming).
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Liezl van Zyl & Joseph Ulatowski (eds.). Virtue, Narrative, and Self: Explorations in Autobiography and the Philosophy of Mind and Action. London: Routledge, 2020.
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Joseph Ulatowski & Cory Wright (eds.) Minimalism about Truth: A Special Issue of Synthese. Synthese 195.3 (2018): 927-1138.
Journal articles:
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Robert Barnard & Joseph Ulatowski, The Objectivity of Truth, A Core Truism? Synthese (forthcoming).
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Joseph Ulatowski & Cory Wright, Rational Cognition and Approximate Truth in the Lvov-Warsaw School. In Konrad Werner... (forthcoming).
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Joseph Ulatowski & Ruth Walker, Missing in Action: Exposing the Moral Failures of Universities that Desert Researchers Facing Court-Ordered Disclosure of Confidential Information. Educational Philosophy and Theory (forthcoming).
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Joseph Ulatowski, Resolute Readings of Wittgenstein and Nonsense. Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy (2020) 8.10: 1-18.
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Joseph Ulatowski, What Is It Like To Be Immortal? Diametros: An Online Journal of Philosophy 16.62 (2019): 65-77.
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Seth Sivinski & Joseph Ulatowski, The Anthropocentrism of the Cosmic Perspective Argument, Ethics and the Environment 27.1 (2019): 1-18.
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Joseph Ulatowski, Is There A Commonsense Semantic Conception of Truth? Philosophia 46.2 (2018): 487-500.
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David Lumsden & Joseph Ulatowski, One Self Per Customer? From Disunified Agency To Disunified Selves, Southern Journal of Philosophy 55.3 (2017): 314-335.
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Joseph Ulatowski, The Inaccuracy of Partial Truths in Yablovian If-Thenism, Australasian Philosophical Review 1.2 (2017): 206-211
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Joseph Ulatowski, Ordinary Truth in Tarski and Næss. In Uncovering Facts and Values, Special Issue of Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and Humanities, v. 107, eds. Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska and Adrian Kuzniar. (2016): 67-90.
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Robert Barnard & Joseph Ulatowski, Tarski's 1944 Polemical Remarks And Næss' 'Experimental Philosophy'. Erkenntnis 81.3 (2016): 350-382.
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Joseph Ulatowski, On The Expertise Defence Of Armchair Philosophy, Southwest Philosophical Studies 36 (2015): 71-77.
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Robert Barnard & Joseph Ulatowski, Truth, Correspondence, And Gender, Review of Philosophy and Psychology 4.4 (2013): 621-638.
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Joseph Ulatowski, What Should We Make Of 'Drowning Man'? Southwestern Philosophical Review 28.2 (2012): 25-29.
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Joseph Ulatowski, Act Individuation: An Experimental Approach Review of Philosophy and Psychology 3.2 (2012): 249-262.
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Joseph Ulatowski & Justus Johnson, Fixing The Default Position In Knobe's Competence Model Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33.4 (2010): 352-353.
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Shaun Nichols & Joseph Ulatowski, Intuitions And Individual Differences: The Knobe Effect Revisited, Mind & Language 22.4 (2007): 346-365.
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Joseph Ulatowski, A Conscientious Resolution Of The Action Paradox On Buridan's Bridge, Southwest Philosophical Studies 25 (2003): 85-94.
Chapters in Books:
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Robert Barnard & Joseph Ulatowski, Do People Really Think That ⸢φ⸣ Is True If And Only If φ?, In Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, edited by Andrew Aberdein and Matthew Inglis, pp. 145-172. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.
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Robert Barnard, Joseph Ulatowski, and Jonathan Weinberg, Thinking About the Liar, Fast and Slow. In Reflections on the Liar, ed. Bradley Armour-Garb, pp. 39-70. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
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Joseph Ulatowski, The Duplicity Of Online Behavior. In Social Media and Living Well, eds. Berrin Beasley and Mitchell Haney, pp. 124-149. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
Critical Notices:
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David Lumsden & Joseph Ulatowski, Casting Light Upon The Great Endarkenment, Metaphilosophy (2019): 729-742.
Memorial Notices:
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Joseph Ulatowski, Dale Jacquette (1953-2016), In Memoriam, Polish Journal of Philosophy 10:1 (2017): 1.
PEDAGOGY
Robert Colter and Joseph Ulatowski, The Unexamined Student is not Worth Teaching Educational Philosophy and Theory 49.14 (2017): 1367-1380.
Carmen Adel and Joseph Ulatowski, Breaking the Language Barrier: Using Translations for Teaching Introductory Philosophy AAPT Studies in Pedagogy, volume 3: Inclusive Pedagogies, ed. Kelly Burns (2017): 33-52.
Robert Colter and Joseph Ulatowski, Social Dexterity in Inquiry and Argumentation: An Apologia of Socrates AAPT Studies in Pedagogy, volume 2: Teaching Plato, ed. Robert Loftis (2016): 6-27.
Robert Colter and Joseph Ulatowski, Freeing Meno's Slave Boy: Scaffolded Learning in the Philosophy Classroom Teaching Philosophy 38.1 (2015): 25-49.
Robert Colter and Joseph Ulatowski, What's Wrong with this Picture? Teaching Ethics through Film to High School Students Teaching Philosophy 36.3 (2013): 253-270.