Ian N Proops

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

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

Professor Proops's recent publications include: "Kant on the Ontological Argument" (forthcoming in Nous); "Russell on Substitutivity and the Abandonment of Propositions" (The Philosophical Review, April 2011); "Kant's First Paralogism" (The Philosophical Review, October 2010); and "What is Frege's 'conept horse problem'?" (in Sullivan and Potter eds. Wittgenstein's Tractatus" (2013)).  He is currently working on a book for Oxford University Press on Kant’s criticisms of speculative metaphysics in the "Dialectic" of the first Critique.

Professor Proops is a founding editor of The Review of Symbolic Logic, where he handles submissions on the history of analytic philosophy, as well as a section-editor (in the same subfield) 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.

During the academic year 2012-2013 Professor Proops is on leave as a Fellow at the National Humanities Center, North Carolina. In the Fall of 2013 he will be co-teaching a graduate seminar on Kant with Katherine Dunlop.