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