Schedule


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