Fall 2024 Marx This course will comprise a close reading of selections from Marx's Capital Volume 1. The course will be taught by both Prof. Azadpur and Prof. Landy. Students can register for either section of the course. Students will submit questions about the text before class every week, and class time will be devoted to answering those questions, and any others that arise, together. A month before the end of the semester, students will submit a proposal for a final paper, on which they will received feedback from both instructors. Students will then submit a final paper that engages with the secondary literature on the text and makes an original philosophical contribution. Spring 2024 Kant This course will take the form of a close reading of selections from Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Topics may include among others: mental representation, the justification of epistemic first principles, the self, the external world, necessary connection, substance, space, time, quantity, quality, and modality. The nature and role of concepts and non-conceptual representations in our cognitive lives will likely be a central topic.
Recent Courses Graduate Seminars Seminar on Philosophical Writing, Sellars, Late Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Human Nature, Hegel, Kant, Hume, Kant and Sellars, Hume and Shepherd Undergraduate Courses Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy and Film, Hume and Kant, Being and Knowing, Introduction to Philosophy