MAIN SCHEDULE
(Tentative:
Would any change be necessary,
it
will be announced in class and on my website)
|
WEEK |
DATE |
TOPIC |
|
ACTIVITY |
|
|
INTRODUCTION |
|||||
|
1 |
Tuesday, September 2 |
Introduction: Elements of
Logic I |
Russell: “The Value of Philosophy,” Hurka: “How to Get to the Top,” (in class) |
Syllabus |
|
|
Thursday, September 4 |
[in Mind’s I] |
|
|||
|
PART I: PLATO |
|||||
|
2 |
Tuesday, September 9 |
Elements of
Logic II; |
|
QUIZ |
|
|
Thursday, September 11 |
|
DISCUSSION |
|||
|
3 |
Tuesday, September 16 |
Elements of
Logic III; Moral
Decisions and Obligations |
QUIZ |
||
|
Thursday, September 18 |
|
DISCUSSION |
|||
|
4 |
Tuesday, September 23 |
Socratic
Elenchus Divine
Command Theory |
Plato: Euthyphro The Cave (from The Republic) |
QUIZ 1st essay is assigned |
|
|
Thursday, September 25 |
|
DISCUSSION |
|||
INTERLUDE
|
|||||
|
5 |
Tuesday, September 30 |
Brains and
Bodies; Points of
View |
Dennett: Where Am I? ( [in Mind’s I] |
QUIZ |
|
|
Thursday, October 2 |
|
DISCUSSION 1st essay is due |
|||
|
PART II: DESCARTES |
|||||
|
6 |
Tuesday, October 7 |
Introducing
Descartes, Basic
Methodological Issues |
Descartes: Discourse
I, II, III |
QUIZ |
|
|
Thursday, October 9 |
|
DISCUSSION |
|||
|
7 |
Tuesday, October 14 |
Searching
for the Foundation of all Knowledge: Methodological
Skepticism and the Cogito |
Descartes: Discourse
IV Meditation I, selections from Meditation II |
QUIZ |
|
|
Thursday, October 16 |
|
DISCUSSION |
|||
|
8 |
Tuesday, October 21 |
Philosophy and
Science I |
Discourse V, (VI) |
QUIZ 2nd essay is assigned |
|
|
Thursday, October 23 |
|
DISCUSSION |
|||
|
9 |
Tuesday, October 28 |
Philosophy
and Science II |
Morowitz:
Rediscovering the Mind (w/ reflections) [in Mind’s I] |
QUIZ |
|
|
Thursday, October 30 |
|
DISCUSSION |
|||
|
PART III: BASIC FREEDOMS |
|||||
|
10 |
Tuesday, November 4 |
Freedom of
Thought |
Mill: On |
QUIZ |
|
|
Thursday, November 6 |
|
DISCUSSION 2nd essay is due |
|||
|
11 |
Tuesday, November 11 |
Freedom of
Action |
VETERAN’S S DAY UNIVERSITY IS CLOSED |
||
|
Thursday, November 13 |
Mill: On |
QUIZ |
|||
PART IV: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
|
|||||
|
12 |
Tuesday, November 18 |
Thinking
Machines |
Turing: Computing Machinery (Hofstadter: The Turing Test, A Coffeehouse Conversation) |
QUIZ 3rd essay is assigned |
|
|
Thursday, November 20 |
|
|
|||
|
13 |
Tuesday, November 25 |
Thinking
Machines |
|
DISCUSSION |
|
|
Thursday, November 27 |
THANKSGIVING RECESS, UNIVERSITY IS CLOSED |
||||
|
14 |
Tuesday, December 2 |
TBA |
|
QUIZ, 3rd essay is due |
|
|
Thursday, December 4 |
|
DISCUSSION |
|||
|
15 |
Tuesday, December 9 |
TBA |
|
|
|
|
Thursday, December 11 |
|
DISCUSSION |
|||
[Home
| Philosophy Department | University Homepage]