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philosophy

Fall 2008

Lectures
Monday, 11:30-12:20
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium (53 Wall Street)

Fall 08 Lecture Schedule
Spring 09 Lecture Schedule

Section Meetings:

1) TTH 11:35-12:50   Gregory Ganssle
2) TTH 11:35-12:50   Barbara Sattler
3) TTH 01:00-02:15   Mihaela Fistioc
4) MW 01:00-02:15   Jonathan Gilmore
5) TTH 11:35-12:50   David Larsen
6) MW 01:00-02:15   Andre Willis
7) TTH 11:35-12:50   Alexander Beecroft

Books (available at Labyrinth Books, 290 York St.)

Plato, Plato: Complete Works, John Cooper, ed. (Hackett)
Aristotle, New Aristotle Reader, ed. Ackrill (Princeton University Press).
Lucretius, On the nature of things, trans. Englert (Focus)
Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Skepticism, trans. Annas and Barnes (Cambridge Univ. Press)
Augustine, On Free Choice of the Will (Hackett)

Weekly Assignments and Lectures:

Week 1
Reading: Plato, Euthyphro
(No lecture)

Week 2
Reading: Plato, Symposium
Lecture, September 8: M. Fistioc

Week 3
Reading: Plato, Phaedo
Lecture, September 15: D. Larsen

Week 4
Reading: Plato, Republic, Books I-IV, VIII-X
Lecture, September 22: A. Beecroft

Week 5
Reading: Plato, Republic, Books V-VII, & Pre-Socratic selections (photocopy handout)
Lecture, September 29: M. Fistioc

Week 6
Reading: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Books I, II; III: 1, 2, 5; VI: 1, 2, 12, 13; VIII; X
Lecture, October 6: T. Kronmann

Week 7
Reading:
First session: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Books I, II; III: 1, 2, 5; VI: 1, 2, 12, 13; VIII; X
Second session: Aristotle, Physics I. 7-9; II; Categories 1-5
Lecture on Physics and Categories, October 13: V. Harte

Week 8
Reading:
First session: Aristotle, Physics I. 7-9; II; Categories 1-5
Second session: Aristotle, De Anima I.1; II; Metaphysics A, 1-2; selections from Z; H; Th
Lecture on Metaphysics, October 20: B. Sattler

Week 9
Reading: Aristotle, De Anima I.1; II; Metaphysics A, 1-2; selections from Z; H; Th
Lecture on De Anima, October 27: G. Ganssle

Week 10
Reading: Lucretius, On the nature of things, book III
Lecture, November 3: A. Beecroft

Week 11
Reading: Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Ph I
Lecture, November 10: J. Gilmore

Week 12
Reading: Augustine, On Free Choice of the Will
Lecture, November 17: A. Willis

Week 13
—Thanksgiving Break—

Week 14
Reading: Anselm, Ontological argument for and against the existence of god, chapter 2-4, Gamilo, In behalf of the Fool; Aquinas, Five ways to prove the existence of god (photocopies)
Lecture, December 1: G. Ganssle

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Spring 2009 

Section Meetings:

1) Ala Alryyes
2) Tamar Gendler
3) Gregory Ganssle
4) Jonathan Gilmore
5) David Larsen
6) Barbara Sattler
7) Zoltan Szabo
 
Books (available at Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street):

Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, Cottingham, ed. (Cambridge)
Leibniz, Philosophical Essays, ed. Garber and Ariew (Hackett)
Berkeley, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Understanding, ed. Dancy (Oxford)
Hume, Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals, Selby-Bigge and Nidditch, eds. (Clarendon Press, 3rd Edition)
Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, eds. P.H. Nidditch and L.A. Selby-Bigge (Clarendon, 2nd. Ed)
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Guyer and Wood, trans. (Cambridge)
Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, Ellington, trans. (Hackett)
Mill, Utilitarianism, ed. Sher (Hackett)
Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, Ansell-Pearson, ed. (Cambridge)
Russell, Problems of Philosophy, OUP 1997

Weekly Assignments and Lectures:

Week 1
Reading: Descartes, Meditations, 1-3
Lecture, Jan. 12: T. Gendler

Week 2
Reading: Descartes, Meditations, 4-6
Lecture, Jan. 19: Z. Szabo

Week 3
Reading: Leibniz, Primary Truths; Monadology
Lecture, Jan. 26: M. Della Rocca

Week 4
Reading: Berkeley, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Understanding (Selections)
Lecture, Feb. 2: A. Alryyes

Week 5
Reading: Hume, Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding, 1-5, 7-8
Lecture, Feb. 9: K. Winkler

Week 6
Reading: Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book II, Part 1, sec. 1; Book II, Part 3, sec. 3-4; Book III, Part 1; Book III, Part 2, sec.1-2
Lecture, Feb. 16: S. Kagan

Week 7
Reading: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, B-Pref., B-Intro., A-Aesthetic (= pp. 106-20, 136-52, 155-71); glove example from the Prolegomena (photocopy).
Lecture, Feb 23: G. Ganssle

Week 8
Reading: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Beginning of Transcendental Analytic, 2nd Analogy, Refutation of Idealism, First and Third Antinomy: pp. 204-214; 246-248; 304-307; 326-329; 470-475; 484-489.
Lecture, March 2: T. Pogge

Week 9 and Week 10
Spring Break

Week 11
Reading: Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
Lecture, March 23: S. Darwall

Week 12
Reading: Mill, Utilitarianism, and Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics (photocopied selections)
Lecture, March 30: J. Gilmore

Week 13
Reading: Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, Preface, Introduction, Part A, chapter 1 and 2
Lecture, April 6: B. Sattler

Week 14
Reading: Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
Lecture, April 13: D. Larsen

Week 15
Reading: Russell, Problems of Philosophy (selections)
Lecture, April 20: Z. Szabo

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