Saturday: Philosophy
Week 1
TITLE: Appearance and Reality
Week 2
TITLE: Socrates
RECOMMENDED READING: Plato. The Trial and Death of Socrates. Trans. John M. Cooper. Ed. G.M.A. Grube. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2001.
Week 3
TITLE: Plato
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kraut, Richard. “Plato.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. March 20, 2004. http://plato.stanford.edu/entires/plato.
RECOMMENDED READING: Plato. Republic. Trans. G.M.A. Grube. Ed. C.D.C. Reeve. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1992.
Week 4
TITLE: Forms
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Silverman, Allan. “Plato’s Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. June 9, 2003. http://plato.stanford.edu/entires/plato-metaphysics.
Recommended Reading:
*Plato. Phaedo. Trans. David Gallop. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Week 5
TITLE: Plato’s Cave Allegory
RECOMMENDED READING: The Republic by Plato, Allan Bloom (translator)
Week 6
TITLE: Aristotle
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Irwin, T.H. “Aristotle.” Routledge Encylopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Craig. New York: Routledge, 1998.
RECOMMENDED READING: *Aristotle. A New Aristotle Reader. Ed. J.L. Ackrill. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987.
*Lear, Jonathan. Aristotle: The Desire to Understand. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Week 7
TITLE: Metaphysics
RECOMMENDED READING: Michael J. Loux. Metaphysics: a contemporary introduction. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Week 8
TITLE: Matter/Form
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Irwin, T.H. “Aristotle.” Routledge Encylopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Craig. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Recommended Reading:
*Lear, Jonathan. Aristotle: The Desire to Understand. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Week 9
TITLE: Logic
RECOMMENDED READING: Warren Goldfarb. Deductive logic. New York: Hackett, 2003.
Week 10
TITLE: Stoics
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Baltzly, Dirk. “Stoicism.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. Dec. 31, 2004. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism.
RECOMMENDED READING: Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. Trans. Gregory Hayes. New York: Random House, 2003.
Week 11
TITLE: Epicureansism
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Sedley, David. “Epicureanism.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward Craig. New York: Routledge, 1998.
*Sedley, David. “Epicurus.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward Craig. New York: Routledge, 1998.
*Konstan, David. “Epicurus.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. Jan 10, 2005. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epicurus.
RECOMMENDED READING: Epicirus. The Epicirus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia. Trans. Brad Inwood and L.P. Gerson. Hackett: Indianapolis, 1994.
Week 12
TITLE: Medieval Philosophy
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Spade, Paul Vincent. “Medieval philosophy.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. Sep. 1, 2004. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/medieval-philosophy.
Week 13
TITLE: Arguments for the Existence of God
Week 14
TITLE: Skepticism
RECOMMENDED READING: Descartes, René. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy. Trans. David Cress. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998.
Week 15
TITLE: René Descartes
BIBLIOGRAPHY: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-works/
RECOMMENDED READING: Descartes, René. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy. Trans. David Cress. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998.
Week 16
TITLE: Cogito ergo sum
Recommended Reading: Descartes, René. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy. Trans. David Cress. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998.
Week 17
TITLE: The Mind/Body problem
RECOMMENDED READING: Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings. Ed. David Chalmers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Week 18
TITLE: Baruch Spinoza
BIBLIOGRAPHY: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza/
RECOMMENDED READING: Benedictus de Spinoza. A Spinoza Reader. Ed. Edwin M. Curley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Week 19
TITLE: A priori knowledge
RECOMMENDED READING: Jonathan Dancy. An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1985.
Week 20
TITLE: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Cambridge Companion to Leibniz. Ed. Nicholas Jolley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
RECOMMENDED READING: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays. Ed. Trans. Daniel Garber and Roger Ariew. New York: Hackett, 1989.
Week 21
TITLE: Time
RECOMMENDED READING: Bastian C. van Fraasen. Introduction to the Philosophy of Space and Time. New York: Random House, 1970.
Week 22
TITLE: Epistemology
RECOMMENDED READING: Jonathan Dancy. An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology. Malden, MA: Blackwell,
1985.
Week 23
TITLE: John Locke
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Uzgalis, William,."John Locke.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. Fall 2005. <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2005/entries/locke/>.
Week 24
TITLE: Personal Identity
RECOMMENDED READING: Personal Identity. Ed. Raymond Martin and John Barresi. New York: Blackwell, 2002.
Week 25
TITLE: Liberalism
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *“Liberalism.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 1998.
RECOMMENDED READING: Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Ed. Peter Laslett. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Week 26
TITLE: Social Contract
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Dent, N.H. “Jean-Jacques Rousseau.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward Craig. New York: Routledge, 1998.
*Freeman, Samuel. “Contractarianism.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward Craig. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Week 27
TITLE: George Berkeley
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Downing, Lisa. "George Berkeley.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. Winter 2004. <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2004/entries/berkeley/>.
Week 28
TITLE: Idealism
Week 29
TITLE: David Hume
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Hume, David. Treatise of Human Nature. Ed. David Fate Norton. Ed. Mary J. Nortion. New York: Oxford University Presss, 2000.
*Morris, William Edward. “David Hume.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Feb. 26, 2001. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/.
RECOMMENDED READING: Hume, David. Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. Ed. Tom L. Beauchamp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Week 30
TITLE: Induction
RECOMMENDED READING: Hume, David. Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Ed. Tom L. Beachamp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Week 31
TITLE: Causation
RECOMMENDED READING: Hume, David. Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Ed. Tom L. Beachamp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Week 32
TITLE: Problem of evil
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Tooley, Michael. "The Problem of Evil.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. Winter 2004 Edition. <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2004/entries/evil/>.
RECOMMENDED READING: *Leibniz, G.W. Theodicy. Trans. E.M. Huggard. Chicago and La Salle, IL: Open Court Press, 1985.
*Adams, Marilyn M., ed. The Problem of Evil. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Week 33
TITLE: Freedom of the Will
Week 34
TITLE: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
RECOMMENDED READING: *Wood, Allen W. Kant. Malden, MA: Oxford University Press, 2005.
*Cassirer, Ernst. Kant’s life and thought. Trans. James Haden. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.
Week 35
TITLE: Categorical imperative
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kant, Immanuel. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Trans. Mary J. Gregor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Week 36
TITLE: Utilitarianism
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter. “Consequentialism.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. May 20, 2003. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/.
*Wilson, Fred. “John Stuart Mill.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. Aug. 12, 2003. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mill/.
*Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism. Ed. George Sher. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2001.
RECOMMENDED READING: Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism. Ed. George Sher. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2001.
Week 37
TITLE: George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Redding, Paul. "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edward N. Zalta. Summer 2002. <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2002/entries/hegel/>.
Week 38
TITLE: Karl Marx
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Wolff, Jonathan. "Karl Marx.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. Fall 2003. <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2003/entries/marx/>.
RECOMMENDED READING: Karl Marx. The Marx-Engels Reader. Ed. Richard Tucker. New York: Norton, 1972.
Week 39
TITLE: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Magee, Bryan. The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy. New York: HenryHolt, 2000.
RECOMMENDED READING: Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Basic Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche. Trans. Walter Kaufmann. New York: Random House, 2000.
Week 40
TITLE: Modality
RECOMMENDED READING: David Lewis. On the Plurality of Worlds. New York: Blackwell, 2000.
Week 41
TITLE: Pragmatism
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Rorty, Richard. “Pragmatism.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Week 42
TITLE: Phenomenology
Week 43
TITLE: Martin Heidegger
RECOMMENDED READING: Heidegger, Martin. Basic Writings. Ed. David Farrell Krell. New York: Harper Collins, 1977.
Week 44
TITLE: Aesthetics
RECOMMENDED READING: Richard Wollheim. Art and its Objects. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Week 45
TITLE: Existentialism
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Crowell, Steven. “Existentialism.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. Aug. 23, 2004. http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2004/entires/existentialism.
RECOMMENDED READING: Kaufmann, Walter. Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre. New York: Meridian Book, 1959.
Week 46
TITLE: Analytic Philosophy
RECOMMENDED READING: Ayer, Alfred Jules. Language, Truth and Logic. New York: Dover, 1952.
Week 47
TITLE: Truth
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-correspondence/
*http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-coherence/
*http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-deflationary/
Week 48
TITLE: Justice
BIBLIOGRAPHY: “Justice.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward Craig. New York: Routledge, 1998.
RECOMMENDED READING: *Nozick, Robert. Anarchy, State and Utopia. New York: Basic Book, 1974.
*Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971.
Week 49
TITLE: Philosophy of language
Week 50
TITLE: Bertrand Russell
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Irvine, A.D. “Bertrand Russell.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. *http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell/
RECOMMENDED READING: Russell, Bertrand. Problems of Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Week 51
TITLE: Ludwig Wittgenstein
BIBLIOGRAPHY: *Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Trans. D.F. Pears and B.F. McGuinness. New York: Routledge, 1961.
*Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations. Trans. G.E.M. Anscombe. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1953.
RECOMMENDED READING: Monk, Ray. Ludwig Wittgnestein: The Duty of Genius. New York: Penguin, 1990.
Week 52
TITLE: Moral relativism
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Wong, David B. “Moral relativism.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Craig. New York: Routledge, 1998.
RECOMMENDED READING: Harman, Gilbert. The Nature of Morality: an Introduction to Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
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