Predrag Cicovacki

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, Massachusetts, USA)

“Listen to what is deepest in you and be true to it as much as you can.”

Predrag Cicovacki

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Predrag Cicovacki is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, Massachusetts, USA), where he taught from 1991 to 2023. During the 2012–13 academic year, he was a fellow of the U.S. and Indian governments on a teaching and research project in India.
In the fall of 2023, he was a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom).

Born in Belgrade in 1960, he grew up and completed his elementary and secondary education in Sombor. After earning his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Belgrade in 1984, he moved to the United States in 1986 for graduate studies. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Rochester (Rochester, New York, USA) in 1991.

He is the author of thirteen books, including The Meaning of Life, God, Man, and Tolstoy; and Dostoevsky and the Affirmation of Life.
He has also edited eleven books, including Tolstoy and Spirituality; The Human Soul; and Nonviolence as a Way of Life.
He translated into English (together with Heidi Grek) Laza Kostić’s philosophical study, The Basic Principle: A Critical Introduction to General Philosophy.

academic papers

Books

Lectures

Essays and Papers

My First

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Books Authored

13. The Ethic of the Upward Gaze:
Essays Inspired by Immanuel Kant and Nicolai Hartmann
(South Bend, IN: St. Augustine Press, 2024), pp. 181.

12. God, Man, and Tolstoy
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 297.

11. The Meaning of Life. A Quick Immersion
(New York: Tibidado Publishing, 2021), pp. 167.

-Russian translation, Смысл жизни: коротко о главном
(Moscow: Center for Humanitarian Initiatives, 2022), pp. 141.

-Macedonian translation, Смислата на животот
(Skopje: Klub Matica, 2022), pp. 181.

-Spanish translation, El sentido dela vida
(Barcelona: Tibidado, 2023), pp. 178.

-Chinese translation (Chengdu: Sichuan University Press, 2025); pp. 148.

-Persian translation by Shababuddin Abbasi, under the title “The Deep Meaning of Life.”

(The Serbian and Turkish translations are in preparation.)

10. The Luminosity of Love
(Los Angeles, CA: Sebastian Press, 2018), pp. 178.

-Serbian translation: Alhemija Ljubavi
(Nikšić: Institute for Serbian Culture, 2018), pp. 199.

9. Gandhi’s Footprints
(New York: Routledge, 2015), pp. 183.

-Serbian translation, “Gandijevim stopama,”
trans. Miroslav Ivanović, Beograd: Službeni Glasnik, 2022, pp. 188.

-An extended Serbian version of this book will be published by the Center for
Serbian and Indian Culture in Belgrade, in 2026.

8. Barefoot in Banares: A Spiritual Pilgrimage
(Puducherry: Puducherry Cooperative Book Society, 2015), pp. 195.

-A revised version of this book, under the title Barefoot in Benares: Letters
from India, is published by the Center for Serbian and Indian Culture in
Belgrade, in 2025.

-The Serbian translation of this book, under the title Bosonog po Benaresu:
Pisma iz Indije, is published by the same Center and at the same time.

7. The Analysis of Wonder:
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann

(New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014), pp. 168.
-Serbian translation by Miroslav Ivanović: Analiza čuđenja: Uvod u
filozofiju Nikolaja Hartmana (Matica Srpska, 2018), pp. 221.

6. The Restoration of Albert Schweitzer’s Ethical Vision
(New York: Continuum Press, 2012), pp. 212.

5. Dostoevsky and the Affirmation of Life
(New York: Routledge, 2012), pp. 366.

-Serbian translation, by Miroslav Ivanović, Dostojevski i svetost života
[Beograd: Službeni Glasnik, 2014].

-The Chinese translation was published by Huaxia Publishing House Co. in
2025 (pp. 397; with 14 colored reproductions.)

4. The Starry Heavens and the Moral Law: Essays on Kant’s Philosophy,
(in Serbian; a collection of my twelve essays on Kant’s philosophy)
Nikšić: Jasen, 2005, pp. 204.

3. Between Truth and Illusion: Kant at the Crossroads of Modernity,
(Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), pp. 240.

-Serbian translation, by Miroslav Ivanović:
Istina i iluzija: Kant na raskrsnici moderne
(Belgrade: Dereta, 2010), pp. 333.

2. The World in Which We Live Together:
A Philosophical Crossword Puzzle,
(in Serbian) Nikšić: Jasen, 2002, pp. 138.

1. Anamorphosis: Kant on Knowledge and Ignorance
(Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1997), pp. 325.

-Serbian translation, by M. Ivanović: Anamorfoza: Kant o znanju i neznanju
(Belgrade, The Multidisciplinary Center, 2005), pp. 390.

Books Edited

11. What is Art and Other Essays, by Rabindranath Tagore, ed. P. Cicovacki
(Belgrade: Center for Serbian and Indian Culture, 2026).
The Serbian translation of this book is forthcoming.

10. Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” ed. P. Cicovacki
The Oxford University Press Series in Philosophy and Literature
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2025); pp. 248.

9. The Human Soul: Essays in Honor of Nalin Ranasinghe,
ed. and intro. P. Cicovacki
(Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2021), pp. xxvii, 276.

8. Tolstoy and Spirituality,
edited by P. Cicovacki and Heidi N. Grek, introduction by P. Cicovacki
(Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018), pp. xxv, 236.

7. Nonviolence as a Way of Life: History, Theory, Practice,
edited by P. Cicovacki and Kendy Hess,
preface and introduction by P. Cicovacki
(Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publisher, 2017), 2 volumes, pp. 690.

6. The Ethics of Nonviolence: Selected Essays of Robert L. Holmes,
edited and introduction by P. Cicovacki
(New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013), pp. 263.<

5. Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov: Art, Creativity, Spirituality,
edited and Introduction by P. Cicovacki and Maria Granik
(Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2010), pp. 232.

4. Albert Schweitzer’s Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook,
edited and introduction by P. Cicovacki
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 254.
-Persian translation by Shababuddin Abbasi, under the title:
“The Philosopher and the Physician of the Century,” Teheran:
Sang Publishers, 2024.

3. Destined for Evil? The Twentieth Century Responses,
edited and with an introduction by P. Cicovacki
(Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2005), pp. 290.

2. Kant’s Legacy: Essays in Honor of Lewis White Beck,
edited and introduction by P. Cicovacki,
Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2001, pp. xxvi, 441.

1. Essays by Lewis White Beck: Five Decades as a Philosopher,
edited and with an introduction by P. Cicovacki
(Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1998), pp. xxxii, 244.

Book Translated

Special Publications

1. Somborski Šahovski Klub 1922-2022,
Prepared and written by Josip Dekić, Dušan Kulundžija, Predrag Čičovački
(Beograd: Orologio, 2023), pp. 240.

2. Laza Kostić, Osnovno načelo: Kritički uvod u opštu filozofiju
Priredili Predrag Čičovački i Saša Radojčić
(Sombor: Heritage, 2016), pp. 146.

3. Guest editor of The Acorn: Journal of the Gandhi-King Society,
vol. XIV, No. 2, Fall-Winter 2011-2012,
A Special Tribute to Robert L. Holmes, pp. 5-62.

4. “Kant’s Moral Philosophy,”
a special double issue of the Journal of Value Inquiry
devoted to Kant’s practical philosophy,
guest editor and introduction P. Cicovacki,
volume 36, issues 2-3, 2002, pp. 149-400.

Articles and Essays

135. „Ascending the Nonviolence Continuum,“
Sanjay Lal, with Predrag Cicovacki, Jennifer King, and Danielle Poe,
The Acorn, Vol. 25, No. 1-2, 2025, 55-77/

134. “Relancer”
In: Albert Schweitzer in Time: 100 Temoignages,
Eds. Francis Guthleben and Jenny Litzelmann,
(Gunsbach: Editions AILS, 2025), pp. 159-60.

-English translation of the book:
Investing our Humanity: Contemporary Voices on Albert Schweitzer,
eds. F. Guthleben and J. Litzelmann
(Aspen, CO: Aspen Journalism, 2026).

133. “A Cruel Dilemma: Truth or Love”
Tolstoy Studies Journal,
vol. 37, 2025, pp. 113-123.

132. “Life Immersed in Love: Natasha, Andrei, and Pierre,”
in Tolstoy’s War and Peace, ed. Cicovacki
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 140-164.

131. “Introduction,” in Tolstoy’s War and Peace,
ed. Cicovacki (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 1-17.

130. “Individualism, Personality and the Restoration of Civilization,”
(in Chinese) Aesthetics Studies of Literature and Art
Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 2020 [actually published in Dec. 2023], pp. 275-287.
129. “The Mask of the Personality”
International Dialogue: East-West,
Vol. 10, no. 4, 2023, pp. 97-104.

128. “Savremeni čovek i filozofija Čarlsa Tejlora”
(in Serbian; “Modern Man and the Philosophy of Charles Taylor”),
Savremeni čovek i suvremeni svet [Modern Man and the Modern World],
Vol. 6, 2023, pp. 175-190.

127. “Čarls Tejlor o krizi morala i etičkog mišljenja”
[Charles Taylor on the Crisis of Morality and Ethical Thinking]
Prilozi – Contributions
(Skopje: The Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2022), pp. 177-187.

126. “Two Scales and Two Orders of Values
—Bringing Business and Humanities Together,”
The Humanities for Business, eds. László Zsolnai and Michael J. Thate
(Cham, CH: Springer, 2023), pp. 13-24.

125. “Our Common Post Covid-19 Pandemic Future:
A Return to ‘Normal’ or a Creation of the New ‘Normal’?”
(with Natacha Salomé Lima),
Ethical Thought, vol. 22, No. 1, 2022, pp. 112-123.

124. “Tolstoy and the Sermon on the Mount,”
Philosophos-Philotheos-Philosphonos:
Festschrift in Honor of Bogoljub Šijaković,
Ed. Mikonja Knežević, Rade Kisić, Dušan Krcunović
(Belgrade: Gnomon: Center for the Humanities, 2021), pp. 539-550.

123. “The Soul of Heloise,”
The Human Soul, ed. P. Cicovacki
(Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2021), pp. 41-50.

122. “Introduction: To Bet on the Soul,”
The Human Soul, ed. P. Cicovacki
(Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2021), xv-xxvii.

121. “Preface,” for Nalin Ranasinghe, The Confessions of Odysseus
(South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2021), vii-xii.

120. “In Pursuit of Peace: Struggles of the Past,”
ANVIKSIKI: Annual Journal of Philosophy and Religion (India)
Vol 17, November 2021, pp. 49-80.

119. “Co-Creation: The Relevance of Heraclitus and Empedocles
for the Renewal of Western Philosophy,”
in Philosophical Imagination: Thought Experiments and Arguments in Antiquity,
ed. Boris Vezjak (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2021), pp. 205-222.

118. “Albert Schweitzer as an Intellectual”
Schweitzer Institute Journal, Vol. 1., No. 1, 2021, pp. 27-42.

117. “Tolstoy’s Divine Madness: An Analysis of The Kreutzer Sonata,”
in Short Story Criticism, ed. Rebecca Parks
(Detroit: Gale, Cengage, 2021), pp. 281-289.

116. “Finding the Proper Measure:
The Value of Money Versus Higher Values”
Ethical Thought, Vol. 20: 2020, No. 2; pp. 132-144.

115. “Shopping, Money and Higher Values”
(in Croatian) Filozofija I Ekonomija (Philosophy and Economics),
ed. Tomislav Krznar
(Zagreb: Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo, 2020), pp. 29-38.

114. “Tolstoy on Art”
(in Chinese), trans. Nan Chen,
in DangDai MeiY: GuanNian Yu ShiJian,
ed. E. Zheng (Beijing: Capital Normal University Press, 2019), pp. 504-515.

113. “Tolstoy on Non-Possession and Non-Violence“
(in Chinese), trans. Chang Bi,
Chinese Journal of Literary Theories,
Vol. 2, 2019, pp. 224-228,

112. “Religion and the Present World”
(in Chinese), trans. Chang Bi,
Chinese and Foreign Literary Theory,
2018, No. 2, pp. 192-198.

111. “Nicolai Hartmann,”
Bloomsbury Online Encyclopedia of Philosophers,
https://www.bloomsburyphilosophers.com/article?docid=b
9781350999992&tocid=b-9781350999992-0015&st=Hartmann

110. “Tolstoy on the Nature and Purpose of Art,”
Philotheos: International Journal for Philosophy and Theology,
Vol. 19, No. 1, 2019, pp. 116-124.

109. “Lin Yutang as My Role Model”
(in Russian), trans. A. V. Skomorohova,
in Celovek, 2019, vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 154-163.

108. “Lin Yutang’s The Importance of Living”
(in Chinese), trans. Chang Bi,
Academics of Chang’an,
2019, Vol.13, No. 4, pp. 149-155.

107. “Philosophical Legacy of L. N. Tolstoy”
(in Russian), A. A. Guseinov and P. Cicovacki,
The Philosophy Journal,
2018, vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 5-21.

106. “Introduction,”
in Tolstoy and Spirituality, edited by P. Cicovacki and Heidi N. Grek
(Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018), xii-xxv.

105. “Tolstoy’s Divine Madness: An Analysis of The Kreutzer Sonata,”
in Tolstoy and Spirituality, edited by P. Cicovacki and Heidi N. Grek
(Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018), pp. 93-106.

104. “Building a Peaceful World and the Calling of Practical Spirituality:
Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Schweitzer,”
in Practical Spirituality and Human Development, ed. Ananta Kumar Giri
(New York: Palgrave, 2018), pp. 385-406.

103. “Laza Kostić – Poliglota, Kosmopolita, Filozof”
(in Serbian), Dometi, 2017, vol. 44, No. 168-171, pp. 161-168.

102. “On the Puzzling Value of Human Life,”
Ethics and Bioethics, vol. 7, No. 3-4, 2017, pp. 155-168.

101. “Philosophy as the Wisdom of Love,”
Ethics and Bioethics, vol. 7, No. 1-2, 2017, pp. 75-84.

100. “The Contemporary Crisis in the World of the West and the Construction of Morality” (in Chinese),
Journal of Shanglou University, vol. 31, No. 1, 2017, pp. 63-68.

99. “Expanding the Horizon, Reawakening the Heart: Reply to Eric Chelstrom,” Axiomathes 27:2017, pp. 185-192.

98. “Author Meets Critics: Predrag Cicovacki, Author of Gandhi’s Footprints, Meets Critics Sanjay Lal and Carlo Filice,”
The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence, vol. 16, Nos. 1-2, 2017, pp. 1-12.

97. “The Basic Principle by Laza Kostić – A Critical Review,” (in Serbian), Dometi, vol. 42, No. 162-163, 2015, pp. 73-81.

96. “On the Philosophy of Holiness and Responsibility,” (in Serbian), Letopis Matice Srpske, No. 497, January-February 2016.

95. “Laza Kostić and World Philosophy”, published as the prelude to The Basic Principle, by Laza Kostić (Sombor: Gradska biblioteka, 2016), pp. 6-15.

94. “The Aesthetic Thought of Immanuel Kant” (in Chinese),
The Aesthetic Thought, vol. 10, 2015, pp. 278-288.

93. “Schweitzer and World Religions,” in Reassessing the Life and Thought of Albert Schweitzer, ed. James Carleton Paget and Michael J. Thate
(Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2016), pp. 130-151.

92. “‘The Socratic Pathos of Wonder’: On Hartmann’s Conception of Philosophy,” in New Research on the Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann, ed. Keith Peterson and Roberto Poli (New York: DeGruyter, 2016), pp. 313-332.

91. “On Artistic Genius and the Main Function of Art: Two Lectures,” Philotheos: International Journal for Philosophy and Theology, 15:2015, pp. 179-191.

90. “The Spirit That Kills Not,” in Nonkilling in Spiritual Traditions, ed. Joam Evans Pim and Pradeep Dakhal (Honolulu: Center for Global Nonkilling, 2015), pp. 37-52.

89. “Laza Kostić and World Philosophy” (in Serbian), published as the prelude to The Basic Principle, by Laza Kostić (Sombor: Gradska biblioteka, 2015), pp. 7-16.

88. “Contemporary Bioethics: The Promethean Challenges of Reprogenetics” (with Natacha Salomé Lima), JAHR: European Journal of Bioethics, vol. 6/1, No. 11, 2015, pp. 29-44.

87. “Bio-Ethics: Past, Present, and Future” (with Natacha Salome Lima), JAHR: European Journal of Bioethics, vol. 5, No. 10, 2014, pp. 263-275.

86. “On What Is, And What Is Not, Morality,” in Morality: Diversity of Concepts and Meanings, bilingual English/Russian edition, ed. Olga Zubec (Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, 2014), pp. 233-238.

85. “Religion and Reason,” (in Serbian) in Iskustvo Mere: Festschrift for Zvonko Kučinar, ed. Marinko Lolić (Belgrade: Filozofska komuna, 2014), pp. 179-190.

84. “Remembering the Student Days,” (in Serbian) in Iskustvo Mere: Festschrift for Zvonko Kučinar, ed. Marinko Lolić (Belgrade: Filozofska komuna, 2014), pp. 175-178.

83. “Building a Peaceful World: Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Schweitzer,” in Peace Education: Gandhi and Other Approaches, ed. Naresh Dadhich and B. Arun Kumar (Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2013), pp. 191-227.

82. “On the Philosophy of Holiness and Responsibility,” A Forward for the book, The Presence of Transcendence: Essays on Facing the Other through Holiness, History, and Text, by Bogoljub Šijaković (Los Angeles: Sebastian Press, 2013), pp. 9-15.

81. “Personality – Developing Nicolai Hartmann’s View,” Philotheos: International Journal for Philosophy and Theology, 13:2013, pp. 189-206.

80. “Reverence for Life and Reverence for Death” (with YaHui Luo), in Nonkilling Security & The State, ed. Joam Evans Pim (Honolulu: Center for Global Nonkilling, 2013), pp. 259-276.

79. “Reverence for Life – A Moral Paradox?” The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue, posted on April 28, 2013. http://irdialogue.org/journal/reverence-for-life-a-moral-paradox-by-predragcicovacki.

78. “The Role of Love in Philosophy” (in Russian), in Postigayo Dobro (Realizing Good), ed. O.V. Artemeyva and A.V. Prokofiev (Moscow: Alfa, 2013), pp. 160-174.

77. “A Forgotten Giant – Nicolai Hartmann,” an introductory essay for Nicolai Hartmann, New Ways of Ontology (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2012), pp. 1-26.

76. “Religion and Reason: A Comparison of Immanuel Kant and Albert Schweitzer,” in Transformations in Philosophical Theology from the 18 th to 20 th Centuries, ed. Wayne Cristaudo and Hueng-wah Wong (Lanham: University Press of America, 2011), pp. 111-126.

75. “Tolstoy’s Divine Madness” 12 (in Serbian)
Letopis Matice Srpske, vol. 187, No. 6, 2011, pp. 1085-1098.

74. “The Role of Love in Philosophy” (in Serbian) Književnost, vol. 1, 2011, pp. 81-92.

73. “Nonviolence in Theory and Practice,” The Acorn: Journal of the Gandhi-King Society, vol. XIV, No. 2, Fall-Winter 2011-2012, pp. 59-62.

72. “Pure Reason and Metaphors: A Reflection on the Significance of Kant’s Philosophy,” Annales Philosophici, 2:2011, pp. 9-19.

71. “Reverence for Life and Reverence for Death,” (in Slovenian) in Philosophical Views on Death, ed. Miran Bozović and Maja Milčinski (Ljubljana, Slovenia: Znanstevena založba, 2011), pp. 169-178.

70. “Yutang Lin on Education, Literature, and Culture,” in Proceedings of the Conference on the Chinese Tradition in Literature and Philosophy, ed. Shangyoung San (Xi’an, China: Northwest University Press, 2011), pp. 217-221.

69. “A World Government – Is It Possible? Is It Needed?” Philotheos: International Journal for Philosophy and Theology, 11:2011, pp. 283-293.

68. “Reverence for Life and Spirituality,” Transdisciplinary Studies 1:2011, pp. 117-125.

67. “Teaching Reverence for Life,” Predrag Cicovacki and Ya-Hui Luo, Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions, 6:2010, pp. 173-186.

66. “Reverence for Life in the Dialogue of Cultures,” in Philosophy in the Dialog of Cultures [The Proceedings of the UNESCO World Days of Philosophy], (Moscow: Progress-Traditsiya, 2010), pp. 1124-1127.

65. “Respect for Persons as Respect for the Moral Law: 13 Nicolai Hartmann’s Reinterpretation of Kant,” in Cultivating Personhood: Kant and Asian Philosophy, ed. Stephan Palmquist (New York: Springer Verlag, 2010), pp. 485-492.

64. “Dostoevsky’s Uncommon View: An Alternative Ethics, or an Alternative to Ethics?” in Art, Creativity, and Spirituality in Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov, ed. P. Cicovacki and M. Granik (Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2010), pp. 183-200.

63. “Notes from the Underground: Dostoevsky’s Anatomy of Modernity,” The Dostoevsky Journal: An Independent Review, 8(1): 2010, pp. 25-43.

62. “The Role of Goethe’s Faust in Dostoevsky’s Opus,” Dostoevsky Studies 14:2010, pp. 151-161.

61. “Schweitzer’s Ethics of Reverence for Life: Criticism and Defense,” Philotheos: International Journal for Philosophy and Theology, 10:2010, pp. 272-289.

60. “Transdisciplinarity as an Interactive Method: A Critical Reflection on the Three Pillars of Transdisciplinarity,” Integral Leadership Review, October 2010 (an online journal).

59. “The Real, the Rational, and the Ideal: Developing Milton Munitz’s Idea of Boundless Existence,” Philotheos: International Journal for Philosophy and Theology, 9: 2009, pp. 310-324.

58. “Kant’s Ethics of the Categorical Imperative: A Goethean Critique,” Philotheos: International Journal for Philosophy and Theology, 8: 2008, pp. 259-274.

57. “Building a Peaceful World: Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Schweitzer,” Gandhian Studies, vol. V, No. 1-2, 2007, pp. 17-43. ž

56. “On the Central Motivation of Dostoevsky’s Novels,” Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Philosophy, Volume 10 (Summer/Fall 2007) No. 1, pp. 277-292.

55. “Reverence for Life: A Moral Value or the Moral Value?” 14 Lyceum (an online journal), vol. IX, No. 2, 2007.

54. “The Meaning of Christ’s Sacrifice: Reflections on Dostoevsky’s Idiot,” Philotheos: International Journal for Philosophy and Theology, 7:2007, pp. 52-79.

53. “Albert Schweitzer’s Ways of Peacemaking,” The Acorn: The Journal of the Gandhi-King Society, 13: 2007, pp. 43-52.

52. “State Terrorism – The Greatest Danger for Humanity?” (in Serbian) Nova srpska politička misao, 14: 2007, No. 1-2, pp. 67-82.

51. “Kant’s Debt to Leibniz,” in A Blackwell Companion to Kant, ed. Graham Bird (Cambridge: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 79-92.

50. “The Dangers of Globalization and a Search for a Different Value System,” ed. K. Boudouris, The Philosophy of Culture (Athens: Ionia Publications, 2006), Vol. I, pp. 88-100.

49. “Kant Aesthetics,” (in Chinese) Journal of Zhengzhou University, 39: 2006, No. 1, pp. 59-69.

48. “The Illusory Fabric of Kant’s True Morality,” (in Russian) Eticheskaya Misly (Ethical Thought), 7: 2006, pp. 127-147. (Originally published in The Journal of Value Inquiry, 36: 2002, pp. 383-399.)

47. “Kant on Truth and Illusion in Art,” (in Chinese) in Beauty and the Way of Modern Life, ed. Chen Wangheng (Wuhan: Wuhan University Press, 2005), pp. 210-218.

46. “Searching for the Abandoned Soul: Dostoevsky on the Suffering of Humanity,” in The Enigma of Good and Evil: The Moral Sentiment in Literature, ed. Ann-Therese Tymieniecka (Lancaster, UK: Springer, 2005), pp. 367-398.

45. “The Enigmatic Conclusion of Dostoevsky’s Idiot: A Comparison of Prince Myshkin and Wagner’s Parsifal,” 15 Dostoevsky Studies, 9: 2005, pp. 106-114.

44. “Trial of Man and Trial of God: Reflections on Job and Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor,” in Destined for Evil? The Twentieth Century Responses, ed. P. Cicovacki (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2005), pp. 249-260.

43. “Through the Looking-Glass of Metaphor: A Reflection on the Actuality of Kant’s Philosophy on the Bicentenary of His Death” (English and Serbian / bilingual edition), i n Actuality and Future of Kant Philosophy, ed. Danilo Basta (Belgrade: Gutenberg, 2004), pp. 389-405.

42. “On the Immorality of Terrorism and War,” The Acorn: The Journal of the Gandhi-King Society, 12: 2004, pp. 5-17.

41. “Transdisciplinarity as an Interactive Method: A Critical Reflection on the Three Pillars of Transdisciplinarity,” in Das Verbindende der Kulturen, ed. Herbert Arlt (Vienna: Springer, 2004), pp. 210-221.

40. “Back to the Underworld: Dostoevsky on Freedom, Suffering and Evil,” Philotheos: International Journal for Philosophy and Theology, 3: 2003, pp. 215-230.

39. “On the Immorality of Terrorism and War,” (in Serbian) Filozofija i društvo, 22-23: 2003, pp. 115-132.

38. “Locke on Mathematical Knowledge,” in Locke: Epistemology and Metaphysics, ed. Udo Thiel, The International Library of Critical Essays in the History of Philosophy (Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2002), pp. 469-482.

37. “Introduction: Kant’s Moral Philosophy Today,” The Journal of Value Inquiry, 36: 2002, pp. 151-159.

36. “The Illusory Fabric of Kant’s True Morality,” The Journal of Value Inquiry, 36: 2002, pp. 383-399.

35. “A Forgotten Giant – Nicolai Hartmann (Part II),” Diotima: A Philosophical Review, 3: 2002, No. 2, pp. 87-102.

34. “A Forgotten Giant – Nicolai Hartmann (Part I),” Diotima: A Philosophical Review, 3: 2002, No. 1, pp. 3-5.

33. “Igrive iluzije: Kant o resnici v umetnosti,” (Slovenian translation of my essay “Playful Illusions: Kant on Truth in Art”) Teorija in praksa, 39: 2002, pp. 268-274.

32. “Cosmopolitanism, Globalism and Culturalism: Could Politics, Economics and Culture Be Fruitfully Integrated?” Diotima: A Philosophical Review, 3: 2002, No. 1, pp. 55-66.

31. “Paths Traced Through Reality: Kant on Commonsense Truths,” in Kant’s Legacy: Essays in Honor of Lewis White Beck, ed. P. Cicovacki (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2001), pp. 47-69.

30. “Trial of Man and Trial of God: Reflections on Job and the Grand Inquisitor,” Diotima: A Philosophical Review, 2: 2001, No. 2, pp. 83-94.

29. “Zwischen gutem Willen und Kategorischem Imperative: Die Zweideutigkeit der menschlishen Natur in Kants Moralphilosophie,” in Systematische Ethik mit Kant, eds. H-U. Baumgarten and C. Held (Freiburg/München: Verlag Karl Alber, 2001), pp. 330-354.

28. “Playful Illusions: Kant on Truth in Art,” in Kant und die Berliner Aufklärung, eds. V. Gerhardt, R. Horstmann and R. Schumacher (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2001), vol. 3, pp. 475-482.

27. “The Lessons of Kosovo: Fighting the Wrong Enemy?” Diotima: A Philosophical Review, 2: 2001, No. 1, pp. 41-46.

26. “Cosmopolitanism, Globalism and Culturalism: Could Politics, Economics and Culture Be Fruitfully Integrated?” (in Serbian), Letopis Matice Srpske, 177: 2001, pp. 638-652.

25. “Humanitarian Interventions and Personal Humanity,” (in Serbian) Filozofija i društvo, 18: 2001, pp. 125-138.

24. “Lekcije sa Kosova: Borba protiv pogrešnog neprijatelja?” (Serbian translation of “The Lessons of Kosovo: Fighting the Wrong Enemy?”), Književne Novine; 52: 2001, No. 1040, p. 5.

23. “Trial of Man and Trial of God: Reflections on Job and the Grand Inquisitor,” (in Serbian) Philotheos: International Journal for Philosophy and Theology, 1: 2001, pp. 225-235.

22. “New Ways of Ontology – The Ways of Interaction,” Axiomathes, 12: 2001, pp. 159-170.

21. “On Public and Private Values: Reconciling Socratic and Platonic Conceptions of Education,” Diotima: A Philosophical Review, 1: 2000, pp. 62-67.

20. “Rethinking the Concept of Truth: A Critique of Deflationism,” in The Truth and Its Nature (If Any), ed. J. Peregrin, (Dordrecht: Kulwer, 1999), pp. 203-221.

19. “On the Ideals of Education,” in Values and Education, ed. T. Magnell, (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998), pp. 19-27.

18. “Kant i filozofska antropologija,” Luča [Torch], 14: 1997, pp. 101-108. (This is a revised version of my paper “Kant and Philosophical Anthropology.”)

17. “Can Love Resolve the Problem of Marriage?” in Explorations of Value, ed. T. Magnell (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997), pp. 221-233.

16. “Yes, We Do Need a Theory of Truth,” in The Nature of Truth, ed. J. Peregrin (Praha: Philosophia, 1997), pp. 121-134.

15. “Truth and Truthfulness: A Critical Study of Richard Campbell’s ‘Truth and Historicity’,” Taiwanese Journal for Philosophy and History of Science, 9: 1996-97, pp. 79-93.

14. “Excoriating Dualisms: A Critical Study of John McDowell’s ‘Mind and World’,” Taiwanise Journal for Philosophy and History of Science, 9: 1996-97, pp. 51-59.

13.“Hume and Kant on the Rationality of Knowledge,” Revue Roumaine Philosophie, 40: 1996, pp. 67-80.

12. “Kant and Philosophical Anthropology,” in The Critical Philosophy and the Function of Cognition, ed. R. Croitoru (București: Diogene, 1995), pp. 189-206.

11. “Concepts as Normative Rules: An Essay on Kant’s Transcendental Deduction,” Idealistic Studies, 25: 1995, pp. 25-49.

10. “Kant on the Nature of Truth,” in Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress, ed. H. Robinson (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1995), vol. II, part 1, pp. 199-205.

9. “Commentary on Gentzler,” in Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, vol. 10, eds. J. J. Cleary and W. Wians (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1994), pp. 296-308.

8. “On Kant’s Letter to M. Herz from 1772,” (in Serbian) Theoria, 37: 1994, pp. 11-22.

7. “Is Epistemological Foundationalism Untenable?” Dialogos, 61: 1993, pp. 139-148.

6. “On Love and Fidelity in Marriage,” Journal of Social Philosophy, 24: 1993, pp. 92-104.

5. “Locke on Personal Identity,” Locke Newsletter, 22: 1991, pp. 57-70.

4. “An Aporia of A Priori Knowledge: On Carl’s and Beck’s Interpretation of Kant’s Letter to Markus Herz,” Kant-Studien, 82: 1991, pp. 349-360.

3. “Locke on Mathematical Knowledge,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 27: 1990, pp. 511-524.

2. “On Kant’s Transcendental Idealism as Skepticism,” 19 (in Serbian) Gledišta (Views), 28: 1986, pp. 66-83.

1. “On the Functions of Analytic Statements,” (in Serbian) Filozofska Istraživanja (Philosophical Investigations), 14: 1985, pp. 493-500.

Book Review

2. Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment: Philosophical Perspectives. Ed. Robert
Guya. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019),
published in Slavic Review vol. 80, No. 1, 2021, pp. 177-79.

1. “Hipoteze i saznanje” (Hypotheses and Knowledge)
Review of Staniša Novaković, Hipoteze i saznanje: Uloga hipoteza u rastu
naučnog saznanja (Belgrade: Nolit, 1984),
published in Theoria, vol. 28, No. 1-2, 1985, pp. 267-269.

Translations

9. “Review of Vasily Sesemann’s ‘The Logical Laws and Being,’” by Nicolai Hartmann (German to English) trans. by Alicia Pietras and Predrag Cicovacki, Forum Philosophicum, vol. 30, No. 1, 2025, pp. 289-296.

8. “Goethe: His Life and His Work,”, by Albert Schweitzer
(German to Serbian), trans. P. Cicovacki, in Letopis Matice Srpske, 184: 2008, No. 1-2, pp. 128-149.

7. “Kant’s Turn Toward Transcendental Philosophy,” by Carsten Held
(English to Serbian), trans. P. Cicovacki, in Actuality and Future of Kant Philosophy, ed. Danilo Basta (Belgrade: Gutenberg, 2004), pp. 336-345.

6. “The Pursuit of the Ideal,” by Isaiah Berlin
(English to Serbian), trans. P. Cicovacki, published in Letopis Matice Srpske,
179: 2003, pp. 211-230.

5. “On the Nature of Evil,” by Bogoljub Šijaković
(Serbian to English), trans. P. Cicovacki, published in B. Šijaković,
Between God and Man: Essays in Greek and Christian Thought
(Sankt Augustin, Germany: Academia Verlag, 2002), pp. 89-104.

4. “Acting Against Better Knowledge:
On the Problem of the Weakness of the Will in Plato, Davidson, and Kant,”
by Hans-Ulrich Baumgarten (German to English), trans. P. Cicovacki; published in Kant’s Moral Philosophy, a special double issue of the Journal of Value Inquiry, issues 2-3, 36: 2002, pp. 235-252.

3. “The Problem of Time in Kant,” by Gerold Prauss
(German to English), trans. P. Cicovacki; published in Kant’s Legacy: Essays in Honor of Lewis White Beck, ed. P. Cicovacki (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2001), pp. 153-165.

2. “Kant’s Letter to M. Herz from February 22, 1772,”
(German to Serbian) trans. P. Cicovacki and S. Radojčić, published in Theoria, 37: 1994, pp. 7-10.

1. “Kant’s Strategy,” by Lewis White Beck
(English to Serbian), trans. P. Cicovacki; published in Gledišta 28: 1987, pp. 175-188.

Podcasts

“What is the Meaning of Life?”
[Posted March 26, 2025]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0IWAX_ULso

-“The Life and Work of Albert Schweitzer”
[Posted December 28, 2022]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df6viDV9kns

-“The Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann”
[Posted September 21, 2022]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=459f7_GvkAA

Find more podcasts and interviews on this page.

PREDRAG CICOVACKI CURRICULUM VITAE

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CV – Table of Content:

1. Education
2. Proffesional accomplishments
2.1. Editorial board
3. Publications
3.1. Most recent authored books
3.2. Most recent edited books
3.3. Translated book
3.4. Books in preparation
4. Podcasts
5. Essays
6. Invited lectures delivered
7. Conference participation
8. Teaching experience
9. Courses taught
10. Conferences organized

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EDUCATION

University of Rochester, USA (1986-91): Ph.D. in Philosophy;
University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia (1979-84): B.A. in Philosophy.

Areas of Specialization
Theory of Values; Philosophy of Love; and Problems of Evil and (Non)Violence.

Areas of Competence
Kant; Schweitzer; Gandhi; Tolstoy; Dostoevsky; Plato.

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• September – December 2023: A Senior Research Fellow, Peterhouse,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

• May 2023: College of the Holy Cross’s Distinguished Scholar: Recognition of
the life-long achievement in scholarship.

• July 1, 2013 – June 30, 2015: O’Leary Research Fellow,
College of the Holy Cross.

• Fall-Winter 2012-13: Senior Fulbright-Nehru Fellow at the Malaviya Centre
for Peace Research, at Banares Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

• 2011 – 2018: Co-Founder of the Albert Schweitzer International Summer
School, held every second year in the first week of June, Gunsbach, France.

Editorial Board

– The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence (USA);
– Ethical Thought (Russia);
– Ethics and Bioethics (Slovakia);
– Philotheos: International Journal for Philosophy and Theology (Serbia);
– Schweitzer Institute Journal (UK).

PUBLICATIONS

Most Recent Authored Books:

• Barefoot in Benares: Letters from India
(Belgrade: Center for Serbian and Indian Culture, 2025), pp. 202.
Also published in the Serbian translation as:
Bosonog po Benaresu: Pisma iz Indije
(Belgrade: Center for Serbian and Indian Culture, 2025), pp. 202.

• The Ethic of the Upward Gaze:
Essays Inspired by Immanuel Kant and Nicolai Hartmann
(South Bend, IN: St. Augustine Press, 2024), pp. 181.

• God, Man, and Tolstoy
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 297.

• The Meaning of Life. A Quick Immersion
(New York: Tibidado Publishing, 2021), pp. 167.

– A Russian translation, Смысл жизни: коротко о главном
(Moscow: Center for Humanitarian Initiatives, 2022), pp. 141.
– A Spanish translation, El sentido dela vida
(Barcelona: Tibidado, 2023), pp. 178.
– A Persian edition was published in Iran in 2025.
– A Chinese translation was published in 2025 by the Sichuan
University Press.
– The Turkish and Serbian translations are in preparation.

Most Recent Edited Books:

• Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” ed. Predrag Cicovacki

The Oxford University Press Series in Philosophy and Literature
(New York: Oxford, 2024), pp. 226.

• The Human Soul: Essays in Honor of Nalin Ranasinghe,
ed. and intro. P. Cicovacki
(Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2021), pp. xxvii, 276.

• Tolstoy and Spirituality,
edited by P. Cicovacki and Heidi N. Grek
(Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018), pp. 340.

Translated Book:

• Laza Kostić, The Basic Principle: A Critical Introduction to General
Philosophy
(originally published in Serbian in 1884 as “Osnovno načelo”)
co-translated with Heidi Nada Grek
(Sombor: Heritage, 2016), pp. 161.

Books in Preparation:

• Tagore, “What is Art and Other Essays,”
edited by P. Čičovački [to be published by the Center for Serbian and Indian Culture in 2026; in English and, as a separate book, in Serbian].

• “Gandhi’s Footprints”
[the Serbian completed edition will be published by the Center for Serbian and Indian Culture in 2026]

• “Personality”
[The first of the four projected volumes of “Metaphysical Anthropology”;
to be published in 2027 or 2028].

PODCASTS

• “What is the Meaning of Life?”
[Posted March 26, 2025]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0IWAX_ULso

• “The Life and Work of Albert Schweitzer”
[Posted December 28, 2022]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df6viDV9kns

• “The Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann”
[Posted September 21, 2022]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=459f7_GvkAA

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

About a hundred and thirty articles and essays published in, or translated into, English, Serbian, German, Russian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese.

The list of the most recent reviewed articles and essays includes:

Latest published essays:

• “A Cruel Dilemma: Truth or Love,”
Tolstoy Studies Journal, vol. 37, 2025, pp. 113-123.
• “Life Immersed in Love: Natasha, Andrei, and Pierre,” in Tolstoy’s War and Peace,
ed. Cicovacki (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 140-164.

INVITED LECTURES DELIVERED

About one hundred invited lectures delivered in the US, England, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Romania, India, Japan, Nepal, Russia, China, and Taiwan.

The last invited lecture:

“Tagorova poseta Beogradu“ [“Tagore’s Visit to Belgrade”],
Kolarčev narodni univerzitet, Belgrade, Serbia, May 5, 2026.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

Over one hundred and twenty conference presentations in approximately thirtyfive countries of the world.

The latest conference presentation:

“Edge of Chaos: Exploring Dynamic Symmetry
Theory and the Science of Complexity, The Royal Society, London, United Kingdom, May 15, 2026; the paper presented: “Dynamic Symmetry and the Challenge of Being Human.”

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• College of the Holy Cross, 1991-2023
(Tenured 1998; Full Professor 2009).

• Guest Professor: Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India,
March 2-7, 2014.

• Guest Professor: University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia,
March 7-11, 2011.

• Guest Professor: Henry J. Lear Luxembourg Program,
May-June, 2006.

• Guest Professor: Center for Applied and Professional Ethics,
University of Moscow, Moscow, Russia, June-July, 2005.

• Guest Professor: University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 1998-99.

COURSES TAUGHT

Seminars:

Meaning and Value; Plato; Tolstoy; Kant and Goethe; Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason; Albert Schweitzer and Reverence for Life; Kant’s Moral Philosophy; Gandhi; Love and Wisdom; Dostoevsky.

Intermediate courses:

Metaphysics; Philosophical Anthropology; Philosophy of the Renaissance;
Philosophy and Literature; The Art of Living; Philosophers on War and Peace; Reality and Utopia; Theory of Value; Globalization and Its Values; Nonviolent Movements in the World.

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

• “Tolstoy and Spirituality,”
College of the Holy Cross, April 21-22, 2017.

• “Reverence for Life,”
Ridgefield, CT, USA, the US “leg,” sponsored by the Henry J. Lear Foundation and Clark University, October 15-16, 2013.

• “War, Morality, Nonviolence: A Conference in Honor of Robert Holmes,”
College of the Holy Cross, April 8-9, 2011.

• “Art, Creativity, and Spirituality in Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov,”
an international and interdisciplinary conference,
College of the Holy Cross, April 10-12, 2008.

• “The Anatomy of Evil,”
an international and interdisciplinary conference,
College of the Holy Cross, April 11-13, 2002.

• “Kant’s Legacy: A Symposium in Honor of Lewis White Beck,”
an international conference, College of the Holy Cross, May 1-2, 1998.

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WORDS & DIALOGUES

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