Oct. 22 in NYC — Rights in America: A History
In this lecture, I trace how Americans have conceptualized rights since the nation’s founding until today.
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Courses
Contemporary Civilization
A section of Columbia University’s famous two-semester Contemporary Civilization seminar.
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Rival Defenses of American Capitalism
A course on the changing ways Americans have defended free-market capitalism, from the country’s founding to today.
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Politics and Philosophy of Ayn Rand
This seminar examines the political and philosophical thought of Ayn Rand (1905–1982).
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Moral Foundations of Capitalism
An exploration of three ways free-market capitalism has been defended in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of Science
In this seminar, we examine the shift from a Newtonian and Baconian outlook on science to a statistically oriented one.
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History of Modern Science and Technology
In this course, we survey extraordinary advances in science and technology since the Renaissance.
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The History of Scientific Methods, Pythagoras to Popper
In this course, we examine centuries of disagreements over what constitutes valid scientific method.
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