Ian Proops
Last updated Jan 2008
Note: I am presently visiting Yale for the Spring Semester
Links to current courses:
PHIL 204b Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Yale, Spring 2008
Contact information
E-mail Username: iproops (Add @umich.edu to the username to form the e-mail address. Spammers use programs that automatically extract full e-mail addresses from internet websites; to prevent this, I list only my username.)
Office: 409 Connecticut Hall
Office phone: 432-1673
Office hours: Tuesdays 12.30-2.30 or by appointment (If you choose the "by appointment" option, please e-mail me a request a meeting and state in your message two or three times you can definitely make.)
Downloadable papers on Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and Kant
Links to past courses
Philosophy 232: Problems of Philosophy, FALL 2007 (Syllabus Only)
Philosophy 232: Further information
Philosophy 297: Honors Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 2003
Philosophy 402: Undergraduate Seminar on the Self, Winter 2004
Philosophy 492: Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Winter 2007 (Syllabus Only
Philosophy 492: Further information
Philosophy 597: Graduate Proseminar, Fall 2006
Philosophy 615: Philosophy of Language, Winter 2006
Areas of Current Research:
Educational Background: Ph.D. Harvard, 1998; B.Phil Oxford, 1989; B.A. Oxford,
1987.
Information about graduate teaching (for prospective grad. students)
Since joining the Michigan department in the fall of 1998 I have taught the graduate "proseminar" on language and mind (with Allan Gibbard and Boris Kment), and graduate seminars on Wittgenstein, the metaphysics of modality, and the theory of descriptions. In addition, I have taught courses for undergraduates and beginning graduate students on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, and Early Analytic Philosophy (Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein). I expect to offer similar courses in the next few years. I have supervised Ph. D. dissertations in epistemology, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of logic and Kant.