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PHIL 2101H Introduction to the Problems of Philosophy (Shottenkirk): Readings

Professor Dena Shottenkirk

Schedule

TEXT
Knowledge, Reality, and Values. Eds. Jamie Lindsay and Dena Shottenkirk (Cognella Press, 2010).

This is an OER course and NO TEXT is required.

 
W Aug 25: Introductory Lecture
 
M Aug 30: Plato’s Apology & Meno (password-protected PDF)
 
W Sept 1: ALL-DAY TELEPHONE
 
M Sept 6: No Classes
 
W Sept 8: No Classes
 
M Sept 13: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (password-protected PDF)
 
W Sept 15: No Classes
 
M Sept 20: Boethius’ Consolations of Philosophy and Ibn-Sina’s De Anima & On the Division of the Rational Sciences (password-protected PDFs)
 
W Sept 22:  ALL-DAY TELEPHONE and PAPER #1 DUE
 
M Sept 27: Aquinas’ Summa Theologica and Descartes’ Of the Things Which We May Doubt (password-protected PDFs)
 
W Sept 29: ALL-DAY TELEPHONE
 
M Oct 4: Spinoza’s Ethics and Hobbes’ Leviathan (password-protected PDFs)
 
M Oct 11: No Classes
 
W Oct 13: ALL-DAY TELEPHONE
 
M Oct 18: Hobbes’ Leviathan (con't) and Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (password-protected PDFs)
 
W Oct 20: ALL-DAY TELEPHONE
 
 
W Oct 27: ALL-DAY TELEPHONE
 
 
W Nov 3: ALL-DAY TELEPHONE
 
 
W Nov 10: ALL-DAY TELEPHONE
 
M Nov 15: Mill’s Utilitarianism (password-protected PDF), PAPER #2 DUE
 
W Nov 17: ALL-DAY TELEPHONE
 
 
W Nov 24: ALL-DAY TELEPHONE
 
 
W Dec 1: ALL-DAY TELEPHONE
 
M Dec 6: Nelson Goodman’s Ways of Worldmaking (password-protected PDF)
 
W Dec 8: Review for final