The University of Texas at Austin

Faculty Member, Philosophy

About

Ian Proops works on History of Analytic Philosophy (especially, Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein) and on Kant's theoretical philosophy (especially, the first Critique).

He has teaching interests in Early Modern Philosophy (especially Leibniz), Metaphysics, Hegel/German Idealism, and the Philosophy of Language.

Proops's recent publications include: "Russell on Substitutivity and the Abandonment of Propositions" (The Philosophical Review, April 2011); "Kant's First Paralogism" (The Philosophical Review, October 2010); and "Russell and the Universalist Conception of Logic" (Noûs, 2007).  He is currently working on a book for Oxford University Press on Kant’s Dialectic.

He is a founding editor of The Review of Symbolic Logic and the History of Analytic Philosophy section-editor for Philosophy Compass.

He earned his B.A. in PPE and a B. Phil. (on Kant's Transcendental Idealism under the supervision of Ralph Walker) at Oxford. He went on to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard, where he wrote a disseration on Wittgenstein's Tractatus under the supervision of Warren Goldfarb, Richard Heck, and Charles Parsons. Before coming to Texas, he taught for ten years at the University of Michigan.