Bart Schultz

Background

About Bart Schultz

Bart Schultz is Senior Lecturer in Humanities (Philosophy) and Director of the Office of Civic Engagement's Civic Knowledge Project. He has been teaching in the College at the University of Chicago since 1987, designing a wide range of core courses as well as courses on Philosophy and Public Education, The Philosophy of Poverty, John Dewey, The Chicago School of Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy, and Happiness. He has also published widely in philosophy, and his books include Essays on Henry Sidgwick (Cambridge, 1992), Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Universe (Cambridge, 2004, winner of the American Philosophical Society's Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History for 2004), Utilitarianism and Empire (Lexington, 2005), and The Happiness Philosophers: Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians (Princeton, 2017). He is on the Editorial Board of Utilitas, the leading professional journal of utilitarian studies. Bart has also, through the Civic Knowledge Project (CKP), developed a number of public ethics programs affording rich opportunities for UChicago students, staff, and faculty to get involved in educationally relevant ways with the larger South Side community. The CKP is involved in designing and running philosophy programs for disadvantaged adults and for underserved public elementary and middle school students in the neighborhoods near the University of Chicago, and its Winning Words precollegiate philosophy program won the 2012 American Philosophical Association's PDC Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs (see http://civicknowledge.uchicago.edu/winningwords.shtml ). Bart has served on the Board of Directors of PLATO (Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization), which is the main professional group in the U.S. devoted to precollegiate philosophy (see http://plato-philosophy.org/). In 2013 he received an Outstanding Educator award from the RainbowPUSH Coalition. See also, https://chicago.academia.edu/BartSchultz and https://bartschultz.academia.edu/cv