Handouts

EC lectures & events

• Instructions for the Final Extra Credit AssignmentMon, Dec 8, 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

• Midterm ExamWed, Oct 22, 2025

Meaning in life

• 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