Fall Lecture Schedule.doc
Spring Lecture Schedule.doc
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 Gilmore2. 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