This is a tentative schedule. Check the assignments page for the most current information.
| Date | Meeting | Topic | Guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8/25 | 1 | Overview; formulations of PSR in Antiquity; Descartes’s Causal Principle | |
| 9/1 | 2 | Spinoza I (Zoom) | |
| 9/8 | 3 | Spinoza II | |
| 9/15 | 4 | Leibniz I (Zoom) | |
| 9/22 | 5 | Leibniz II (Zoom) | |
| 9/29 | 6 | Kant I: The PSR & the Pre-critical Kant | |
| 10/6 | 7 | Kant II: God, Existence, & Real Possibility (Zoom) | Heide |
| 10/13 | 8 | Kant III: Temporal causation | |
| 10/20 | 9 | Kant IV: Is there a limit to the PSR? (Zoom) | Schafer |
| 10/27 | 10 | Jacobi: PSR & Nihilism (Zoom) | Kreines |
| 11/3 | 11 | Maimon: the problem of Acosmism (Zoom) | Stang |
| 11/10 | 12 | Schopenhauer on the PSR | |
| 11/17 | 13 | Inquiry & Explanation (Zoom) | Amijee |
| 11/24 | Break | ||
| 12/1 | 14 | Contemporary Rationalism (Dasgupta v MDR) (Zoom) | |
| 12/8 | 15 | TBA |