GHEA21 Faculty

Kathryn Tabb

Kathryn Tabb is a member of the Philosophy Program, and also teaches in Experimental Humanities and Human Rights. She is interested in madness - its history, its ethics, and how it defines us. Along with teaching on the history and philosophy of psychiatry, she offers classes on early modern philosophy, on medical ethics, on disability, on feminist philosophy, and on history and philosophy of science more broadly. She is completing a book on John Locke's theory of irrationality and its role in the political sphere. She has long been an enthusiast for core curricula like First-Year Seminar. Before coming to Bard in 2019, she completed the University of Chicago's core curriculum as an undergraduate and taught in Columbia's core curriculum as a professor, experiences that left her convinced of the value of close encounters with transformative texts for which one has little preparation, guidance, or special expertise - especially when undertaken in the company of others.