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

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. All readings linked below are taken from the text cited above.

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

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

M Nov 22: Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov & Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil (password-protected PDF)

W Nov 24: ALL-DAY TELEPHONE

M Nov 29: W.K. Clifford’s The Ethics of Belief & William James’ The Will to Believe (password-protected PDF))

W Dec 1: ALL-DAY TELEPHONE

M Dec 6: Nelson Goodman’s Ways of Worldmaking (password-protected PDF)

W Dec 8: Review for final