Tentative Schedule
January
21 Introduction to Course
26 Categorical Propositions: Basics
28 Working with Categorical Propositions
February
2 Categorical Syllogisms: Basics
4 Categorical Syllogisms
9 Categorical Syllogisms
11 Gorgias Introduction
16 Categorical Syllogisms
18 Gorgias [Hackett pp. 1-20, 447a-461b: Socrates debates Gorgias]
23 Game of Logic Practice Day
25 Gorgias [Hackett pp. 20-50, 461b-481b: Socrates debates Polus]
March
2 More Logic!
4 Gorgias [Hackett pp. 51-113, 481b-527e: Socrates debates Callicles]
9 Platonic Myths
11 Aristotle [Logic Portfolios Due!]
16 SPRING BREAK: NO CLASS
18 SPRING BREAK: NO CLASS
23 Consolation Introduction
25 Consolation Book I [Relihan pp. 1-21]
30 Consolation Book II [Relihan pp. 22-48]
April
1 Consolation Book III [Relihan pp. 49-90]
6 Consolation Books IV & V [Relihan pp. 91-150; focus on Book IV and the very end of Book V]
8 Thomas Aquinas [Gorgias Portfolios Due!]
13 Catch Up or Review Day
15 Enquiry Introduction & Sections I-III [Hume pp. 1-15]
20 Enquiry, Sections IV & V [Hume pp. 15-37]
22 Enquiry, Sections VI-IX [Hume pp. 37-71]
27 Hume and Shepherd on Testimony & Miracles [Hume, Section X, pp. 71-90; selection from Lady Mary Shepherd]
29 Enquiry, Section XII and Descartes’s Cogito [Hume, pp. 102-114]
May
4 Catch Up OR Feminist Philosophy
6 Catch Up OR Feminist Philosophy [Miscellaneous Portfolios Due!]
11 Additional Philosophy
13 Additional Philosophy [LAST DAY OF COURSE]
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