Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski provides a very rough-strokes overview of the history of 19th Century Phenomenology - specifically Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Husserl - as preparation to discuss his listeners' questions in the weeks to come. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at profbkozlowski2@gmail.com

Professor Kozlowski throws caution to the wind, transgresses the boundaries of good taste, and proceeds to argue that the problems typical to 21st Century American culture have more to do with Post-Modernism than Modernism.  Feel free to call him a hack in the comments.  You're not wrong, but it's not like it will stop him or anything. He promises, no more Philosophy of America stuff in the weeks to come.  On to Sartre! Professor  Kozlowski continues to take requests for future lectures -  e-mail him  at profbkozlowski2@gmail.com with suggestions for future  topics or  questions you'd like to hear him confront.

Professor Kozlowski bloviates his way to understanding the change between the American philosophy of the nation's founders and American philosophy today - the good, the bad, and the ugly.  Along the way we'll discuss pluralism, property, meritocracy and capitalism, the development of the modern Republican party, the disintegration of the small town in America, and a little bit of Aristotelian political philosophy. Professor  Kozlowski continues to take requests for future lectures - e-mail him  at profbkozlowski2@gmail.com with suggestions for future topics or  questions you'd like to hear him confront.

In this first listener-requested lecture, Professor Kozlowski discusses the philosophical and religious underpinnings of American identity, including the Stuart Dynasty in Great Britain, the Enlightenment perspective on Ancient Greek and Roman politics, and Enlightenment philosophy in general. Professor Kozlowski continues to take requests for future lectures - e-mail him at profbkozlowski2@gmail.com with suggestions for future topics or questions you'd like to hear him confront.

Professor Kozlowski snubs his students and addresses this supplemental lecture to his Internet listeners: we're going on a two-week hiatus, but if you want to hear more podcasts about philosophy, mythology, literature, or whatever, e-mail Professor Kozlowski at: profbkozlowski2@gmail.com - he is taking suggestions, and since there are only about a dozen or so regular listeners, you'll probably get your suggestion on the air (so to speak). In the meantime, here are the links to some of Professor Kozlowski's other Internet projects: Watch - a blog about philosophy, literature, and whatever. Professor Kozlowski's fiction blog, Resemblance to Reality is Purely Coincidental Video Game Academy - A collaborative effort to examine video games with academic rigor Christian History Summer Study - Part 1: from the New Testament to the Renaissance

Professor Kozlowski closes out the semester by discussing Jean-Paul Sartre's essay "The Humanism of Existentialism," discussing the landscape of 20th Century Philosophy (analytic and continental), and issuing a public service announcement to Just Say No to Nihilism and Relativism.

Professor Kozlowski discusses the conclusion of Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and the ambiguous conclusions presented by Hume and his characters on the nature of God.

Professor Kozlowski discusses one of his personal favorite passages in all of philosophy, and explains how Hume's skepticism leads Philo to some unexpected possibilities.

Professor Kozlowski opens his discussion of Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion with a brief discussion of the difference between Rationalism and Empiricism, an analysis of Humian skepticism (as embodied by Philo), and the central argument about God's nature as presented by Cleanthes.

Professor Kozlowski introduces modern philosophy by discussing the first half of Descartes' Meditations.