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Tentative course schedule

Aug. 22: Plato (427?-347 B.C.) on knowledge. Knowledge as recollection: Meno 79e-86b (80c-82b, 85b-86b in class); knowledge vs. true belief/judgment: Meno 96a-98b (96e-98b in class), Theaetetus 200d-201d; knowledge is not identical with true belief plus an account: 206c-210b; knowledge is not perception: Theaetetus 184b-186e.

Aug. 24: Plato vs. Protagorean relativism: Theaetetus 170a-171c; Plato vs. Heraclitean flux: Theaetetus 181c-183c; knowledge as recollection of the forms: Phaedo 72e-77a, 100b-102a.

Aug. 29: Arguments for the forms: Republic 475b-480a; illustrations of the forms: Republic 507b-519a.

Aug. 31: Problems with the forms: Plato, Parmenides, 130a-135c; Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), Metaphysics, Book I, Chapters 6, 9; Book VII, Chapters 13, 14 (photocopy).

Sept. 5: Aristotle on perception: Aristotle, On the Soul, Book II, Chapters 1-6, 12; Book III, Chapters 2(426b8-427a16) through 8 (photocopy).

Sept. 7: René Descartes (1596-1650), Meditations on First Philosophy (1641), First Meditation (photocopy, pp. 104-107); and Principles of Philosophy (1644-1647), Part I ##1-28 (photocopy, pp. 231-238).

Sept. 12: Descartes, Principles of Philosophy, Part I ##29-54 (photocopy, pp. 238-45), ##63-76; Part II #4 (photocopy, pp. 248-55).

Sept. 14: David Hume (1711-1776), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748): skepticism about causality, and the "skeptical solution" (photocopy, pp. 322-346).

Sept. 19: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science (1783): "Preface", "Preamble on the Distinguishing Feature of All Metaphysical Cognition", and "General Question" (pp. 5-31); also the selection from the "Introduction" to the Critique of Pure Reason on pp. 159-160.

Sept. 21: Kant, Prolegomena: "How is pure mathematics possible?" and judgments (pp. 32-55).

Sept. 26: Kant, selections from the Critique of Pure Reason, pp. 166-171; and Prolegomena: "How is the science of nature possible?" (pp. 55-76) and "How is metaphysics in general possible?" (pp. 81-86).

Sept. 28: Bertrand Russell (1868-1970), The Problems of Philosophy (1912), pp. 37-59.

Oct. 3: First paper due; also read Russell, The Problems of Philosophy, pp. 82-118;

Oct 5: A.J. Ayer (1910-1989): Language, Truth and Logic (1936), pp. 31-71.

Oct. 10: Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic, pp. 71-102.

Oct. 12: Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic, pp. 120-153.

Oct. 17: Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989), Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (1956), pp. 13-25; and Robert Brandom's Study Guide, pp. 120-131.

Oct. 19: Sellars, EPM, pp. 32-57; and Study Guide, pp. 134-149.

Oct. 24: Sellars, EPM, pp. 64-88; and Study Guide, pp. 151-170.

Oct. 26: photocopy on Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976); Sellars, EPM, pp. 88-117; and Study Guide, pp. 170-181.

Oct. 31: Second paper due (no new reading).

Nov. 2: Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), History of the Concept of Time (1925) on Edmund Husserl's (1858-1938) phenomenology of "intentionality" (pp. 13-32).

Nov. 7: Husserl on the fulfillment of intentions (HCT, pp. 36-55).

Nov. 9: Husserl on simple and complex perceptions (HCT, pp. 55-72).

Nov. 14: Husserl on phenomenology (HCT, pp. 72-89).

Nov. 16: Husserl on consciousness (HCT, pp. 90-107); Heidegger's criticism of Husserl's phenomenology (HCT, pp. 108-116, 119-126, 128-131).

Nov. 21: Heidegger on phenomenology (HCT, pp. 135-140) and the question of Being (HCT, pp. 143-152).

Nov. 28: Heidegger on Being-in-the-world (HCT, pp. 152-171).

Nov. 30: The Being of the "work-world" (HCT, pp. 185-200); "worldliness" as meaningfulness (HCT, pp. 200-214).

Dec. 5: Heidegger vs. Descartes (and, implicitly, Husserl) on the world (HCT, pp. 171-185); the spatiality of the work-world (HCT, pp. 223-234).

Dec. 7: Heidegger on our relations with other people (HCT, pp. 236-250) and the concept of reality (HCT, pp. 214-223).