My name is Zachary E. Altman, I am a Philosophy PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania. I grew up in the Flatiron District in NYC. I did my B.A. in Philosophy at Bard College, followed by an M.A. at UChicago. Before arriving at Penn, I taught at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School as well as the Université Paris-VIII-Vincennes-Saint-Denis.
My main areas of interest are in Kant (metaphysics and aesthetics) and ordinary language philosophy (especially Wittgenstein and Cavell). Lately, I am concerned with skepticism, indeterminacy, and the problem of acknowledgment.
Outside of philosophy, I spend my time rock climbing, cooking, mushroom foraging, and sitting in silence. I’m also working on a children’s book about codependent badgers.
