Palle Yourgrau

Harry A. Wolfson Professor of Philosophy

yourgrau@brandeis.edu
781-736-2782
Rabb Graduate Center, 332

Departments/Programs

European Cultural Studies
Philosophy

Degrees

University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D.
Cornell University, B.A.

Expertise

Philosophy of language. Philosophy of mathematics. Philosophy of space and time. Metaphysics of death. Simone Weil. Plato. Aristotle.

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. Simone Weil is also a major focus of my research.

Courses Taught

PHIL	131b	The Metaphysics of Death
PHIL	132a	Infinity
PHIL	138b	Philosophy of Mathematics
PHIL	145b	Topics in the Philosophy of Language
PHIL	146a	Idea of God
PHIL	161a	Plato
PHIL	162b	Aristotle
PHIL	177b	Simone Weil
PHIL	200a	Graduate Proseminar
PHIL	237a	Proper Names: Semantics, Epistemology, Metaphysics

Awards and Honors

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

Scholarship

Yourgrau, Palle. ""Against History: A Lesson from Simone Weil"." https://iainews.iai.tv/articles/against-history-emmanuel-macrons-lessons-from-simone-weil-auid-844? access=ALL (2017):

Yourgrau, Palle. ""When Time Turned Into Space"." www.spaziofilosofico.it Edition, Numero 11. Special Topic: "Space" (2014): Ppg. 205 - 212 <http://www.spaziofilosofico.it/en/category/numero-11/>.

Yourgrau, Palle. Simone Weil. Trans. Yu Zehan. Lijiang Publishing House, China (Original Publisher, Reaktion Books, UK), 2014.

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

Yourgrau, Palle. "Introduction to Chris Kraus, _Aliens and Anorexia_, New critical edition, Semio-Texte and MIT Press, Spring, 2013." Bookforum, online Nov. 20. (2013): <http://www.bookforum.com/pubdates/12554>.

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

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. Nine translations: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, mainland China. ed. Basic Books, 2005.

Yourgrau,Palle. Gödel Meets Einstein: Time Travel in the Gödel Universe. Chicago: Open Court, 1999.