Course Schedule

January 17—19
Wednesday: Check. Check One. Sibilance (intro to class; no reading)
Friday: Doing Philosophy (no reading)

January 22—26
Monday: Descartes | Meditations One and Two (460-466)
Wednesday: Descartes | Meditations One and Two (460-466)
Friday: Descartes | Meditations Three and Four (466-476)

January 29—February 2
Monday: Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Book 1; Book 2, Chapter 1 (598-604)
Wednesday: Locke | Book 2, Chapter 8 (608-611)
Friday: Berkeley | Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge | Part 1, paragraphs 1-4, 8-10, 18, 29-33 (679-683, 685)

February 5—9
Monday: Hume | An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | Sections 2-4 (739-748)
Wednesday: Hume | Sections 2-4 (739-748)
Friday: Empiricism wrap-up (no new reading) (group work)

February 12—16
Monday : Kant | Critique of Pure Reason | Preface [Bxiv-Bxxxi], Intro Section I [B1-B2] (880-886, 891)
Wednesday: Kant | Intro Sections IV-VI [B10-B24] (894-898)
Friday: Kant wrap-up (no new reading) (group work)

February 19—23
Monday: James | What Pragmatism Means (1117-1128)
Wednesday: James | What Pragmatism Means (1117-1128)
Friday: Pierce | How to Make Our Ideas Clear | I-II (1106-1110)

February 26—March 2
Monday: Feminist Epistemology (handout)
Wednesday: Feminist Epistemology (handout)
Friday: Feminist Epistemology (no new reading) (group work)

March 5—9
Monday: PAPER #1 due; Review for midterm (no reading)
Wednesday: MIDTERM
Friday: Hegel | Phenomenology of Mind | Introduction (994-1001)

March 12—16
SPRING BREAK! (woo?)


March 19—23
Monday: Hegel | Section 1 (1001-1006)
Wednesday : Hegel (no new reading) (group work)
Friday: Marx | Selection from The German Ideology (handout)

March 26—30
Monday: Marx | Selection from The German Ideology (handout)
Wednesday: Kierkegaard | Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1007-1014)
Friday: Kierkegaard | Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1007-1014)

April 2—6
Monday: Nietzsche | Twilight of the Idols | Sections 1-2 (1078-1085)
Wednesday: Nietzsche | Sections 3-4 (1084-1091)
Friday: Heidegger | Selection from Being and Time (handout)

April 9—13
Monday: Heidegger | Selection from Being and Time (handout)
Wednesday: Sartre | Selection from The Humanism of Existentialism (1167-1176)
Friday: Sartre & Heidegger wrap-up (no new reading)

April 16—20
Monday: Mill | Utilitarianism | Chapter 2 (1019-1030)
Wednesday: Mill | Utilitarianism | Chapter 2 (1019-1030)
Friday: Mill (no new reading) (group work)

April 23—27
Monday: Feminist Ethics | Gilligan (handout)
Wednesday: Feminist Ethics | Ruddick (handout)
Friday: PAPER #2 due; Feminist Ethics (no new reading) (group work)

April 30—May 4
Monday: Wittgenstein (handout)
Wednesday: Wittgenstein (handout)
Friday: Review for Final Exam

May 7
Monday: FINAL EXAM