Palle Yourgrau

Title

Harry A. Wolfson Professor of Philosophy

Philosophy

Expertise

Philosophy of language. Philosophy of mathematics. Philosophy of time. Greek philosophy. The idea of God.

Profile

Research and publications range from the metaphysics of birth and death to epistemology, philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of language (with special reference to Gottlob Frege), the philosophy of space and time (with special reference to Gödel and Einstein), and Plato and Aristotle. Recently, Simone Weil has become a major focus of research.

Degrees

University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D.

Cornell University, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	yourgrau@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2782
Office:	Rabb Graduate Center, 332

Awards and Honors

Appointed to the Harry A. Wolfson Chair of Philosophy, Brandeis University (2005)

Courses Taught

PHIL	37a	Philosophy of Language
PHIL	38b	Philosophy of Mathematics
PHIL	131b	The Metaphysics of Death
PHIL	132a	Infinity
PHIL	145b	Topics in the Philosophy of Language
PHIL	146a	Idea of God
PHIL	161a	Plato
PHIL	162b	Aristotle
PHIL	177b	Simone Weil
USEM	19a	Dangerous Beauty

Scholarship

Yourgrau, Palle. ""Kripke's Moses"." The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death. Hardback ed. Ed. James S. Taylor. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013 (forthcoming)

Yourgrau, Palle. "_Introduction_ to Chris Kraus." Aliens and Anorexia. New critical ed. Semio-Texte and MIT Press, 2013. 4 ppg.. (forthcoming)

Yourgrau, Palle. ""Kripke's Frege"." _Thought: A Journal of Philosophy_ Vol. 1. Issue 2 (2012): Ppg. 100 - 107.

Yourgrau, Palle. Simone Weil. Paper ed. London: Reaktion Books: "Critical Lives", 2011.

Yourgrau, Palle, N. Koertge. "Update on entry, "Kurt Gödel" (original entry by Gregory Moore)." New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2007.

Yourgrau, Palle (translated into Spanish by the journal). "Introduction to Kurt Gödel, "A Remark about the Relationship between Relativity Theory Theory and Idealistic Philosophy"." Teorema: An International Journal of Philosophy Vol. XXV/3. (2006): Ppg. 95 - 102.

Yourgrau,Palle, _The Encyclopedia of Philosophy_ (Paul Edwards, ed.). "Gödel, Kurt". Second Edition (revised original article) ed. MacMillan, 2005.

Yourgrau,Palle. A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein. Paperback edition now out in the US. Eight translations are now in print: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Korea, Japan, Taiwan. Forthcoming, a translation in mainland China. ed. Basic Books, 2005.

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