Ανακοινώσεις μαθήματος Modern Philosophy

Reading for week 7

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:25:14 +0300

HEGEL

A Companion to Hegel, edited by Stephen Houlgate and Michael Baur

Chapter 2: “The Project of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit” John Russon

The Bloomsbury Companion to Hegel, edited by Allegra de Laurentiis Jeffrey Edwards

Chapter 3: “THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT OF 1807: A CONSPECTUS” Kenneth R. Westphal,

Reading for week 6

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:16:18 +0300

KANT

Metaphysics

Henry E. Allison, “Kant’s Transcendental Idealism”

Lorne Falkenstein, "Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic"

Ethics

Sebastian Gardner, “The Primacy of Practical Reason”

Allen W. Wood, “Kant’s Formulations of the Moral Law”

Aesthetics

Anthony Savile, “Kant’s Aesthetic Theory”

Reading for Week 5

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:11:22 +0300

HUME

For the topics presented in our seminar, please read The Cambridge Companion to Hume, esp. chapters: 2, 5, 9.

If you wish to focus on a particlar topic in Hume's philosophy for your essay, let me know so as to offer you specific reading advice.

I look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 20 November, for our first lecture on Kant.

Reading for Week 4

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 02:17:49 +0300

Dear Students,

In preparation for our meeting on November 13, when you finish your reading about Spinoza and Locke, you may want to have a look at an introductory overview of Hume's thought -- read chapter 1 from The Cambridge Companion to Hume:

David Fate Norton, "An Introduction to Hume’s Thought" (pp. 1-39)

For any quries you might have, feel free to contact me by email.

All the best from Malibu

Anthony

Reading for Week 3

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 08:27:21 +0300

Oli Koistinen (ed.) The Cambridge companion to SPINOZA’S ETHICS (Cambridge, 2010)

Chapter 3 Valtteri Viljanen, "Spinoza’s Ontology"

Jonathan Law, Routledge Guidebook to Locke on Human Understanding (Routeldge, 1995)

Chapter 5 "Identity"

Lex Newman (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Locke' ‘‘ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING’’ (Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Chapter 7 Giden Yaffe, "Locke on Ideas of Identity and Diversity"

Reading for Week 2

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:30:50 +0300

Reading for Week 2

Gary Hatfield, The Routledge Guidebook to Descartes’ Meditations (Routledge, 2014).

Chapter 3: Withdrawing the mind from the senses.

David Cunning (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to DESCARTES’ MEDITATIONS (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

Chapter 2. Charles Larmore, ‘The First Meditation: skeptical doubt and Certainty’

Chapter 3. David Cunning, ‘The First Meditation: divine omnipotence, necessary truths, and the possibility of radical deception’

Reading for Week 4

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:58:59 +0300

Modern Philosophy

Week 4

Jonathan Law, Routledge Guidebook to Locke on Human Understanding (Routeldge, 1995)

Chapter 5 "Identity"

Lex Newman (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Locke' ‘‘ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING’’ (Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Chapter 7 Giden Yaffe, "Locke on Ideas of Identity and Diversity"

Oli Koistinen (ed.) The Cambridge companion to SPINOZA’S ETHICS (Cambridge, 2010)

Chapter 3 Valtteri Viljanen, "Spinoza’s Ontology"

Chapter 5 Katherine j. Morris, “The Second Meditation: unimaginable bodies and insensible minds”

Reading for Week 3

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 21:15:57 +0300

Modern Philosophy

Week 3

David Cunning (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to DESCARTES’ MEDITATIONS (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

Chapter 4 Lilli Alanen, “The Second Meditation and the nature of the human mind”

Chapter 5 Katherine j. Morris, “The Second Meditation: unimaginable bodies and insensible minds”

Reading for Week 2

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 22:51:27 +0300

Gary Hatfield, The Routledge Guidebook to Descartes’ Meditations (Routledge, 2014).

Chapter 3: Withdrawing the mind from the senses.

David Cunning (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to DESCARTES’ MEDITATIONS (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

Chapter 2. Charles Larmore, ‘The First Meditation: skeptical doubt and Certainty’

Chapter 3. David Cunning, ‘The First Meditation: divine omnipotence, necessary truths, and the possibility of radical deception’