Department of PhilosophyI am a first-year Ph.D. student in Philosophy. Before arriving at Penn, I taught at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School as well as the Université Paris-VIII-Vincennes-Saint-Denis.
Zachary E. Altman
B.A. in Philosophy, Bard College 2022
M.A. in Humanities, University of Chicago 2023
Research Interests
My historical interests are primarily in modern philosophy (especially Kant) and in the history of analytic philosophy (especially Wittgenstein). My systematic interests lie in metaphysics, metaphilosophy, philosophy of language, and aesthetics. A throughline of my work is an interest in how historical philosophers have drawn limits or boundaries to experience, thought, language, and knowledge.
