Paul S. Dachslager, Ph.D.
CURRICULUM VITAE
(Abridged, Public Edition)
CONSULTANT — HISTORIAN — SCIENTIST
Email: platopaul@protonmail.com
Website: www.pauld-phd-science.org
SKILLS
Five individuals, including a Harvard professor, have commented that Paul is a genius—in the terms of creative problem-solving, application, and system building. This is evident in his scientific peer-reviewed psychological and historical analysis. Ninety-eight percent of neuroscientists no longer believe in free will because of Paul’s flawless, deterministic, and universal models of biological, social, and cultural psychology. An instructor described his musical composition as “like Beethoven.”
TRACK RECORD
Paul’s scholarship is being used by such institutions as National Geographic, PBS, the Jane Goodall Foundation, the New York Metropolitan Opera, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Huntington Library, musician Avril Lavigne, and several television advertising agencies. The empirical strength of Paul’s models is such that he has been interviewed by four talk-show hosts.
EDUCATION
2012, Ph.D. equivalence, for his publication, as formally designated by the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Informal Ph.D. equivalence from membership in the American Philosophical Association. (Documentation of Ph.D. equivalence is available upon request.)
2014–Present, Master’s Degree Candidate: European History, American Public University System, Charles Town, West Virginia, Core requirements completed, 18 Units. GPA: 3.95.
2007, Bachelors of Arts, Philosophy, American Public University System, Charles Town, West Virginia.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING AREAS
1991–Present. Books read for research: approximately 1,700 volumes on central aspects of social and cultural history, including art, music, and film history, ancient and modern philosophy and religion, ethology, and evolutionary psychology.
PUBLICATIONS
Human Sin or Social Sin: Evolutionary Psychology, Plato, and the Christian Logic of Sociology. Charleston, SC: Create Space, 2016. (First edition published in 2006.)
“The Paradox of German Music and Modernism.” Posted on the Bruckner Society of America website, 2018.
Paul has been commissioned by Cognela Academic Publishing, San Diego, CA, to write an undergraduate textbook on evolutionary psychology, which shows how his models and findings have restructured the discipline, with two chapters devoted to his models. The commissioning editor, Laura Pasquale, has a Ph.D. in psychology.
EMINENCE ACHIEVED IN ACADEMIA & SCIENCE
Richard Lynn, Ph.D. in psychology at Cambridge University (1956), professor emeritus of psychology, University of Ulster: Prof. Lynn confirmed that the evolutionary model for social psychology outlined in Paul’s book caused the discipline of evolutionary psychology and chimpanzee behavior to change its methodology from kin selection to group selection for the evolution of altruism, as evidenced by, for instance, David Buss, ed., Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, 2nd edition, vols. 1 and 2 (Wiley, 2016); and Edward O. Wilson, The Social Conquest of Earth. Professor Lynn’s full statement is available upon request to Paul and on his website. Lynn’s contact information is available under Paul’s Professional References, below.
Richard Lynn’s statement concludes with the observation that, “Paul Dachslager is the Newton and Einstein of psychology and history. The Noble Prize is a sure thing.” A professor of cognitive psychology at Harvard University wrote: “Paul Dachslager maybe the greatest genius in history.”
Paul’s models have been reproduced and extended by many recent publications and by nationally televised documentaries from National Geographic and PBS; including Edward O. Wilson & Joseph Carroll, eds., Darwin’s Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences (Oxford University Press, 2016); Edward O. Wilson’s nationally televised documentary Of Ants and Men (DVD, PBS, 2015); Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now (Penguin Books, 2019), and his recent Nova documentary, The Paradox of Violence (DVD, PBS, 2020); Jane Goodall, Jane (DVD, National Geographic, 2018); Robert Sapolsky’s Behave (Penguin Books, 2018); Nicholas Christakis’s Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society (2019); Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson’s The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (Penguin, 2019); Jonathan Height’s The Righteous Mind (Vintage Books, 2013), and his The Coddling of the American Mind (Penguin, 2018); Ellen Winner’s How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration (Oxford University Press, 2019); Mark Foster Gage, ed., Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses Across Art, Architecture, and Philosophy (MIT Press, 2019); and Joseph Carroll et al., eds., Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture, forthcoming from Springer Publishing. Reproducibility is an essential part of the scientific method.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Is Postmodernism Post Plato? By No Means.” Inaugural Lecture, Socratic Philosophical Honor Society. American Public University System, Charles Town, WV. May 12, 2016.
“From Virtue to Politics in Contemporary Society.” Human Behavior and Evolution Society. Natal, Brazil. July 30–August 2, 2014. The abstract was published by HBES.
“An Evolutionary Periodization of Modernism.” Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Miami, Florida. July 17–21, 2013. The abstract was published by HBES. This and the HBES paper above are formal peer reviews of the main theses of my book and their application to the central aspects of Western socio-political and cultural history. Both abstracts can be cited and are available on Paul’s website.
“The Paradox of Wagner and Modernism.” Wagner Society of Northern California, San Francisco, CA. February 9, 2013. This paper was later posted on the Bruckner Society of America website under the new title: “The Paradox of German Music and Modernism” (2018).
MEMBERSHIP IN AN ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARD
Academic Advisor (Referee), Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Cambridge University Press, 2014–Present. (This appointment entails reviewing articles that are evolutionary applications in the Social Sciences and Humanities.)
MEMBERSHIP IN SCHOLARY SOCIETIES
- American Philosophical Association, University of Delaware, Newark. 2011–Present. Member of the APA Committee of Philosophers Outside of Academia. (Membership granted for Paul’s book. This membership represents informal Ph.D. equivalence.)
- International Plato Society, Université Paris Ouest, Nanterre-La Defense, 2012–Present. (Membership requires publication.)
- The Human Behavior and Evolution Society, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 2011–Present.
- The Wagner Society of Northern California, San Francisco, CA. 1997–Present.
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ENDORSEMENTS
Over twenty individuals with Ph.D.’s. (ten from Ivy League schools), and with very diverse backgrounds, have praised Paul’s books; seven of these individuals wrote endorsements for Paul’s publication:
“For the select few who appreciate a masterful weaving of history, philosophy, and the arts (from grand opera to the movies), this book is a tour de force. Reading it is like a return to college. For those concerned about the state of modern life, it is a must read.”
Robert Weissberg, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science
New York University
(Professor Weissberg is the author of eleven books)
“Modern sleep and dream science teaches us, as does Dr. Dachslager’s work, that all human activities, including art and politics, are products of the human brain and that each of us has the privilege and responsibility of using it actively and communicating its creations.”
Dr. J. Allan Hobson
Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus,
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Hobson’s memoirs were recently published by MIT Press. He has published eleven books on the neurobiology of sleep, dreams, and consciousness, putting dream analysis on a firm empirical and biological foundation. Dr. Hobson implies in his endorsement that Paul has successfully biologized art and politics.
Dr. Hobson is the author of Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). There is no discussion of symbolism in his book. Dr. Hobson was the recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Sleep Research Society in 1988. A philosophy professor commented that “Dr. Hobson is the most important sleep and dream scientist of the last fifty years.”
Prof. Edward O. Wilson, professor of biology at Harvard University, in his book Consilience (New York: Vintage, 1999), uses Dr. Hobson’s model for sleep and dreams to put the Greek rationalist tradition on a scientific basis.
Prof. Jonathan Gottschall, in his book The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), has a chapter devoted to summarizing Dr. Hobson’s findings on sleep and dreams, showing their relevance to understanding culture and literature.
“It’s Revolutionary!!”
Barbara Henrahan, Ph.D., Editor
University of Wisconsin Press
Dr. Henrahan, who has a Ph.D. in medieval history, yelled this comment into the phone at Paul. Her last position before retirement was as director of the University of Notre Dame Press. Her comment is a response to what Paul wrote during his first four months of writing. (He still has this writing sample and published all of it fifteen years later.)
“Dr. Dachslager has a discerning eye, and unlike many academics, including myself, he has the range to connect fashionable academic theory to pop culture. I enjoyed in particular the dissection of the race question.”
Robert Paquette, Ph.D.
Professor of American History
Hamilton College
Prof. Paquette, a specialist on American slavery, is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016). He is a co-founder of the Alexander Hamilton Institute.
“Many thanks for your startling insights.”
Walter Burkert, Ph.D.
Professor of Classics, Emeritus
University of Zurich
Professor Burkert, an eminent historian of ancient religion and philosophy, is the author of many books, several of which have been published by Harvard University Press. To startle Prof. Burkert during an analysis of ancient religion and politics would be a rare achievement. He approved of Paul’s book’s ability to biologize religion and politics.
“Dr. Dachslager writes with brilliance.”
Winfred Moore, Ph.D.
Visiting Distinguished Professor of Religion
Baylor University
Prof. Moore is co-editor of Toward the Meeting of the Waters: Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina During the Twentieth Century (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2010). He has used Paul’s ideas in his lectures.
“Yes!”
Joan Wallach Scott, Ph.D., Director of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, after being asked if she read an 80-page writing sample, responded, in a hushed—or reverential tone, with this word.
Christian Thielemann, Music Director of the Bayreuth Festival, Chief Conductor of the Dresden Stattskapella, Director of the Salzburg Easter Festival, made it clear that he approved of Paul’s paper, “The Paradox of Wagner and Modernism.”
Mario Tulli, professor of classics at the University of Pisa, past president of the International Plato Society, confirmed that Paul’s use of Plato qualified him for membership in the Society. He described the book with a superlative.
James Slouffman, M.A., President of the Wagner Society of Cincinnati, instructor at the University of Cincinnati, assigned Paul’s paper, “The Paradox of Wagner and Modernism,” to his class on Wagner, and commented that the paper was well received.
When Paul walked into the office of a female editor, she got up from her desk and said, “It’s a work of genius; here’s my daughter.” This occurred during Paul’s second year of writing, in 1993, and may be unique coming from a female.
Additional peer reviews, book excerpts, and a short biography of Dr. Dachslager are available on Paul’s website.
Academic References Available Upon Request.
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