Other training:
NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, Princeton University, “20th Century American Philosophy: Quine and Davidson” June – July 2011
Institut Wiener Kreis, Vienna Summer University, "The Culture of Science and its Philosophy," Summer 2009
The Constitutive A Priori and the Structure of Physical Knowledge [Deposited April 2011]
Paul Guyer (supervisor), Elisabeth Camp, Michael Weisberg
My main research and teaching interests are in the history of modern philosophy, the history of 20th Century analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of science. My dissertation and future research are part of an expansionary and revisionary trend in studying philosophy’s most recent past. In my dissertation, I was particularly interested in tracing the development in the early 20th century of Immanuel Kant’s fundamental insight in the Critique of Pure Reason. Kant’s insight was that certain a priorielements of knowledge provide the conceptual and methodological background necessary for making precise judgments about space, time, and objects and their relationships in space and time. Beginning with my own interpretation of Kant’s insight, my dissertation shows how Kantian minded philosophers of science in the early 20th century modify it in light of the relativistic revolution in physics. From there, I drew lessons for contemporary attempts to understand the possibility and conditions of objective physical knowledge.
Papers:
“Are Kant’s Concepts and Methodology Inconsistent with Scientific Change? Constitutivity and the Synthetic Method in Kant,” Accepted to HOPOS: The Journal for the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science
Invited presentations
At peer-reviewed conferences
Other presentations
Department of Philosophy