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Dr. Curtis Sommerlatte

Assistant Professor, Philosophy


Dr.  Curtis Sommerlatte
Office: S-M 110  
M Annex,
2135 Mackay
Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext.
Email: curtis.sommerlatte@concordia.ca
Website(s): Personal Website
Academia.edu
PhilPapers
Availability: Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:00-3:00, or by appointment

Education

Indiana University, Bloomington
2008-16, Ph.D. in Philosophy (Minor in 18th-Century Studies)

Freie Universität, Berlin
2011-12 Direct Exchange Fellowship with IUB

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2006-08, M.A. in Philosophy

Southwestern University
2002-06, B.A. in Economics (Minor in Philosophy), summa cum laude


Teaching activities

Winter 2018

PHIL 235 – Biomedical Ethics
PHIL 361 – Empiricism
PHIL 485/607 – Kant's Epistemology

Fall 2017

PHIL 235 – Biomedical Ethics
PHIL 360 – Rationalism
PHIL 374 – Kant & 19th Century Philosophy
PHIL 480/612 – Plato's Epistemology

Winter 2017

PHIL 235 – Biomedical Ethics
PHIL 361 – Empiricism
PHIL 485/607 – Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Fall 2016

PHIL 235 – Biomedical Ethics
PHIL 360 – Rationalism
PHIL 374 – Kant & 19th Century Philosophy


Publications

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

2017. “Sartre’s Case for Nonthetic Consciousness: The Ground of the Cartesian Cogito’s Certainty and the Methodological Basis for Phenomenological Ontology”. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. 99:4, 405-442. DOI: 10.1515/agph-2017-0020.

2016. “Empirical Cognition in the Transcendental Deduction: Kant’s Starting Point and his Humean Problem”. Kantian Review 21:3, 437-63. DOI: 10.1017/S1369415416000273.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

(forthcoming 2018) “Erkenntnis in Kant’s Logical Works”. In Akten des 12. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Eds. Violetta L. Waibel and Margit Ruffing. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

BOOK REVIEWS

2016. “Sofia Miguens, Gerhard Preyer, and Clara Bravo Morando, eds., Pre-Reflective Consciousness: Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind”. Sartre Studies International 22:2, 108-114. DOI: 10.3167/ssi.2016.220207.

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