Handouts
EC lectures & events
- Instructions for the Final Extra Credit AssignmentMon, Dec 8, 2025
- Is Capitalism Necessarily Racist? (Prof. Nancy Fraser, New School, recorded lecture)Sun, Dec 7, 2025
- Can Capital Be Constrained? (Profs. Joseph Stiglitz and Prabhat Patnaik)Wed, Dec 3, 2025
- Justice Forum: Carceral Pedagogies (Justice-In-Education Initiative, Columbia)Wed, Dec 3, 2025
- Tradwives and Fascist Legacies in Brazil (Dr. Daniela Traldi, Columbia)Thu, Nov 20, 2025
- Queer Archives, Trans Histories (Barnard Center for Research on Women, online)Wed, Nov 19, 2025
- How to Abolish Prisons: Gender as Analytic (Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia)Thu, Nov 13, 2025
- Whither Economic Rights? (Prof. Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia)Tue, Nov 11, 2025
- Descartes: A Great Books in Context (Prof. Christia Mercer, Columbia)Mon, Nov 10, 2025
Exams & assignments
- Final ExamMon, Dec 1, 2025
- Final Project AssignmentMon, Nov 17, 2025
- Midterm ExamWed, Oct 22, 2025
Politics & society
- Audre Lorde: The Poet and the PhilosopherWed, Dec 3, 2025
- Karl Marx, Paris Manuscripts of 1844Mon, Dec 1, 2025
- John Locke, Second TreatiseMon, Nov 24, 2025
Meaning in life
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second SexWed, Nov 19, 2025
- Rowan Bell, “Being Your Best Self”Mon, Nov 17, 2025
- The Reasonable and the AbsurdWed, Nov 12, 2025
Determinism & free will
- David Lewis, “The Paradoxes of Time Travel”Wed, Oct 22, 2025
- Harry Frankfurt, “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility”Mon, Oct 20, 2025
- The Consequence ArgumentWed, Oct 15, 2025
Knowledge & skepticism
- Alan Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”Mon, Oct 13, 2025
- Descartes and RussellWed, Oct 8, 2025
Philosophy & religion
- Pascal’s WagerWed, Oct 1, 2025
- Augustine and MaimonidesMon, Sep 29, 2025
- Anselm and AquinasWed, Sep 24, 2025
- Ibn Rushd, Decisive TreatiseMon, Sep 22, 2025
Portraits of a philosopher
- The Lover of Wisdom IIWed, Sep 17, 2025
- The Lover of Wisdom IMon, Sep 15, 2025
- The Junzi IIWed, Sep 10, 2025
- The Junzi IMon, Sep 8, 2025
Introduction
- Getting PhilosophicalWed, Sep 3, 2025