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Giorgi Lebanidze

 

1 Kennedy Avenue, Apt. 1405                                            giorgimail@gmail.com

Danbury, CT, 06810                                                             (443) 345-7319

 

 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION 

                      

Hegel, Kant

 

AREAS OF COMPETENCE                

Ethics, Early Modern Philosophy, Continental Philosophy,

Political Philosophy (the areas in which I am prepared to

teach advanced undergraduate courses)

 

AREAS OF TEACHING INTEREST   

Bioethics, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Logic, Philosophy of Science,

Philosophy of Law, Aesthetics (these are the additional areas in

which I am prepared to teach undergraduate courses)

 

EDUCATION      

                                

Johns Hopkins University, Philosophy Department

Dissertation Title:  Hegel’s Transcendental Ontology.

Defended on February 5th, 2016

                                               

Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts & Science  

Masters Degree.  Awarded May 2004 Interdisciplinary

Humanities Program in Liberal Studies;

Modern European Studies, Areas of focus:

19th & 20th

Master’s Thesis Advisor: Taylor Carman

 

Tbilisi State University, Republic of Georgia

Bachelors and Masters [Combined] Degree. Awarded June 1995

Theoretical Nuclear Physics.

 

 

DISSERTATION    

                            

Hegel’s Transcendental Ontology         

Committee: Dean Moyar(chair), Yitzhak Melamed, Hent de Vries   

 

Abstract: The dissertation argues that Hegel presents the fundamental structure of his ontology in the final part of the Science of Logic, the Doctrine of the Concept. Through a detailed analysis of the three moments of the Concept (universality, particularity, and individuality) as well as the schema of their relationship, I demonstrate that the central features of Hegel’s ontology stem from Kant. Thus I argue that Hegel’s Logic can be read as a spelling out of the ontological implications of the well-known claim from Kant’s Transcendental Deduction: an object is that in the concept of which the manifold of a given intuition is united.

 

PUBLICATIONS      

                           

BOOK:    

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Hegel’s Transcendental Ontology (Lexington Books, 2018)

 

The book argues that Hegel presents the kernel of his metaphysics, in the Doctrine of the Concept, the final part of his Science of Logic. The Concept has three moments: universality (a process through which conceptual content of empirical determinations is formed), particularity (a holistic system of inferentially interrelated determinations comprising the totality of conceptual content), and individuality (the totality of objects conditioned by the shared system of empirical determinations that comprise the particular moment). The book details these three moments as well as the specific schema of their relation to one another. One of its aims is to offer a resolution to the recent debate between Kantian and traditional metaphysics-based readings of Hegel that has been dominating Hegel scholarship. I claim that Hegel walked a narrow path between Scylla, of offering just another version of the traditional kind of metaphysics and Charybdis of abstaining from making any substantive claims about the nature of reality and focusing exclusively on the analysis of the faculty of understanding. Hegel left behind traditional approaches to the problems of metaphysics and, through a radical reformulation of the relationship between thought and being, proposed a new kind of metaphysics that is Kantian through and through.

                                                           

ARTICLES:       

 

Hegel’s Critique of Rationalist Metaphysics in the Vorbegriff Chapter of the Encyclopedia Logic (History of Philosophy Quarterly, January 2019) 

 

Hegel’s Theory of the Concept   

Kant’s Notion of the Transcendental Object 

 

LIST OF GRADUATE COURSE COMPLETED

 

Johns Hopkins University:

Contemporary Moral Philosophy; 

Skepticism: Ancient and Modern;

Transcendence/Immanence;          

Hegel, Die Phanomenologie des Geistes;               

Greek Phil: Aristotle;       

Theory of Knowledge;         

Hegel: On Ethics & the Theory of Tragedy;          

Psychoanalysis & Art History;        

Difference & Repetition;                  

Kant's Critique of Judgment;           

Seminar on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit I;               

Seminar on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit II;  

Plato & Predecessors;         

Fichte's Early Wissenshaftslehre;              

Epistemology-Historical Perspective;        

Spinoza and German Idealism;       

Topics in Hegel's Philosophy;         

German Literature & Culture;        

The Birth of Aesthetics

                                                           

Columbia University:

Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason;

Philosophy of Science; 

Heidegger; 

Political Philosophy;

Adorno’s Ethics;       

German Intellectual History;

Aesthetics;             

Art Since 1945;         

History of Sexuality in the West

 

AWARDS                                           

 

Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University        Academic year 2011-2012

 

Dean’s Prize Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University                Academic year 2012-2013

 

Selected to be a participant in the 3rd International Summer School in German Philosophy, Summer 2013, University of Bonn, Germany

 

Travel Grant, Johns Hopkins University, Summer 2013

 

TEACHING    

                                    

Johns Hopkins University, Philosophy Department

Existentialism(Dean’s Teaching Fellowship)                                                    Fall  2011

                            (Dean’s Prize Fellowship)                                                         Fall 2012

Introduction to Modern Philosophy                                                                          2013

Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy                                                                2012

Kant’s Copernican Revolution                                                                                    2012

Foucault's Genealogical Inquiries: Biopolitics, the Prison, and Sexuality           2011

 

Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT (Philosophy and Humanistic Studies Dept.)

Spring 2019 - Present • Course taught: Introduction to Philosophy;   Ethical Issues in Health Care   

 

Fordham University, New York, NY (Philosophy Dept.)

Spring 2016 – Present • Course taught: Philosophical Ethics; Philosophy of Human Nature

 

Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY (Philosophy & RS)

Fall 2015 – Present • Courses taught: Ethics; Philosophical Perspectives, Philosophy of Law

 

Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY (Philosophy Dept.)

Fall 2016 • Courses taught: Introduction to Ethics

 

Towson University, Towson, MD (Philosophy & RS)

Spring 2014  &  Fall 2014 • Courses taught: Introduction to Philosophy

 

Teaching Assistant at Johns Hopkins University (Philosophy Department):

Formal Logic                                                 Spring 2011

Introduction to Bioethics                             Fall      2010

Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy Spring 2010  & Sring 2009 

Introduction to Greek Philosophy              Fall      2009  

Philosophic Classics                                     Fall      2008  &  Fall  2007

Introduction to Ethics                                   Spring 2008

 

REFEREES      

                                   

Dean Moyar, Professor of Philosophy & Director of Graduate

Studies at Johns Hopkins University 

 

Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins

University 

 

Jeffrey Flynn, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies,

Department of Philosophy, Fordham University

 

Letters of recommendation by the referees can be obtained from

Veronica Feldkircher-Reed, Academic Program Coordinator,

JHU, Department of Philosophy:  vfeldki1@jhu.edu

 

 

LANGUAGES                                     

 

Reading knowledge of German and French

Fluent Russian                                                                   

Native Georgian