Eric Ratzel

Visiting Instructor of Philosophy

Years at Knox: 2012 to present

Education
M.A., 2010, University of Chicago.
B.A., 2009, Knox College.

Teaching Interests
Philosophy of language, action and perception, Artistotle, Aquinas, Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein, Anscombe, and Sellars.

Selected Professional Accomplishments

Honors/Grants
Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow, Knox College, 2009.
Merritt H. Moore Prize in Philosophy, 2008.
Richter Fellow for Undergraduate Research, 2008.

Presentations
"How Atomistic Prejudice Distorts What's Practical." Space-Lab-Chicago presents Local Poetics and Logic, October 2011.

"Fregean Prospects for the Hive-Mind Scenario." East-West University, Society and Ethics Workshop, April 2011.

"Spatial and Temporal Self Representation." Free-School of Chicago Conference on Sustainable Living and Metaphysics, September 2011.

"Delimiting the Explanatory Authority of Heterophenomenology." 13th Annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, April 2009.

Contact
eratzel@knox.edu