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Fall 2009

Lecture Meeting: Friday, 11:35-12:25
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
(53 Wall Street)

Section Meetings:

1. TTH  11:35-12:50     Jonathan Gilmore
2. TTH  11:35-12:50     Gregory Ganssle
3. TTH  11:35-12:50     David Larsen
4. TTH  11:35-12:50     Verity Harte
5. TTH  11:35-12:50     Mihaela Fistioc
6. TTH  11:35-12:50     Alexander Beecroft
7. TTH  11:35-12:50     David Possen

Books (available at Labyrinth Books, 290 York St.)
Plato, Plato: Complete Works, ed. Cooper (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)
Anselm: Proslogion, with the replies of Gaunilo and Anselm, trans. Williams (Hackett)

Weekly Assignments and Lectures:

Week 1
Reading: Plato, Euthyphro
Lecture, September 4: Mihaela Fistioc on Symposium

Week 2
Reading: Plato, Symposium
Lecture, September 11: David Larson on Phaedo

Week 3
Reading: Plato, Phaedo
Lecture, September 18: Alexander Beecroft on Republic,
Books I-IV, VIII-X

Week 4
Reading: Plato, Republic, Books I-IV, VIII-X
Lecture, September 25: Mihaela Fistioc on Republic Books V-VII

Week 5
Reading: Plato, Republic, Books V-VII
Lecture, October 2: Tony Kronman on Nicomachean Ethics

Week 6
Reading: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Books I, II; III: 1-5, 10; VI: 1-7, 12, 13; X, 6-8.
Lecture, October 9: Verity Harte on Physics I. 7-9; II; Categories 1-5

Week 7
Reading: Aristotle, Physics I. 7-9; II; Categories 1-5
Lecture, October 16: Greg Ganssle on De Anima

Week 8
Reading: Aristotle, De Anima I.1; II.1-7, 12; III.1-5
Lecture, October 23: Verity Harte on Metaphysics

Week 9
Reading: Metaphysics I, 1-2; XII.1-7, 9-10
Lecture, October 30: Alexander Beecroft on Lucretius

Week 10
Reading: Lucretius, On the nature of things, book III
Lecture, November 6: Jonathan Gilmore on Sextus Empiricus

Week 11
Reading: Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Skepticism, Ph I
Lecture, November 13: David Possen on Augustine

Week 12
Reading: Augustine, On Free Choice of the Will
Lecture, November 20: Greg Ganssle on Anselm, Gaunilo, and Aquinas

Week 13
Thanksgiving Break

Week 14
Reading: Anselm, Ontological Argument For and Against the Existence of God, chapter 2-4, Gaunilo, In Behalf of the Fool; Aquinas, Five Ways to Prove the Existence of God (photocopies for Aquinas)
Lecture, December 4: John Hare on Duns Scotus

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Spring 2010

Lecture Meeting: Friday, 11:35-12:25
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
(53 Wall Street)

Section Meetings:

1. TTH 11:35-12:50    Gregory Ganssle
2. TTH 11:35-12:50    David Possen
3. TTH 11:35-12:50    Michael Della Rocca
4. TTH 11:35-12:50    Paul Grimstad
5. TTH 11:35-12:50    Jonathan Gilmore
6. TTH 11:35-12:50    Raul Saucedo
7. TTH 11:35-12:50    Matthew Smith

Books (available at Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street):
Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, ed. Cottingham (Cambridge)
Leibniz, Philosophical Essays, eds. Garber and Ariew (Hackett)
Berkeley, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge,
ed. Dancy (Oxford)
Hume, Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals, eds. Selby-Bigge and Nidditch
(Clarendon, 3rd edition)
Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, eds. P.H. Nidditch and
L.A. Selby-Bigge (Clarendon, 2nd edition)
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, trans. Guyer and Wood (Cambridge)
Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, trans. Ellington (Hackett)
Mill, Utilitarianism, ed. Sher (Hackett)
Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, Lowrie, trans. (Everyman’s Library)
Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, ed. Ansell-Pearson (Cambridge)
Goodman, Fact, Fiction and Forecast (Harvard)

Weekly Assignments and Lectures:

Week 1
Reading: Descartes, Meditations, 1-3
Lecture, THURSDAY, Jan. 14, 4:00 WHC, Mathew Smith on Descartes 

Week 2
Reading: Descartes, Meditations, 4-6
Lecture, Jan. 22: Michael Della Rocca on Leibniz

Week 3
Reading: Leibniz, Primary Truths; Monadology
Lecture, Jan. 29: Raul Saucedo on Berkeley

Week 4
Reading: Berkeley, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Understanding (Selections)
Lecture, Ken Winkler on Hume Enquiries WEDNESDAY, Feb 3,
11:35-12:25: (no philosophy lecture Friday, Feb. 5)

Week 5
Reading: Hume, Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding, 1-5, 7-8
Lecture, Feb. 12: Shelly Kagan on Hume, Treatise

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. 19: Greg Ganssle on Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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 26: Thomas Pogge on Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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 5: Matthew Smith on Kant, Grounding

Week 9 and Week 10
Spring Break

Week 11
Reading: Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
Lecture, March 26: Jonathan Gilmore on Mill

Week 12
Reading: Mill, Utilitarianism,
Lecture, April 2: David Possen on Kierkegaard

Week 13
Reading: Kierkegaard, Sickness Unto Death
Lecture, April 9: Paul Grimstad  on Nietzsche

Week 14
Reading: Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
Lecture, April 16: Raul Saucedo on Goodman, Fact, Fiction and Forecast

Week 15
Reading: Nelson Goodman, Fact, Fiction and Forecast
Lecture, April 23: Greg Ganssle on the history of analytic philosophy

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