ARCHIVE - Fall Quarter Syllabus

Week 1: Sept. 25 - 29 (Plato)
(current week)

Monday

Tuesday

Thursday

9:00 - 11:00

All Program:
Intro to program

9:00 - 11:00

Seminar:
Plato, Meno

12:30 - 2:30

Seminar:
Intro to seminars

12:30 - 2:30

All Program: Rosenberg, ch's 1-3

12:30 - 2:30

All Program: Rosenberg, ch's 4-6

Week 2: Oct. 2 - 6 (Plato)

Monday

Tuesday

Thursday

9:00 - 9:30

Seminar leaders meet with Chuck

9:30 - 11:30

All Program:
Chuck about Meno

Tom Grissom - Ancient Greek Science

9:00 - 11:00

AM Writing Group:
Seminar A essays

9:00 - 11:00

Seminar: Plato,Theatetus

12:30 - 2:30

Seminar:
Plato, Meno

12:30 - 2:30

All Program:

12:30 - 2:30

PM Writing group:
Seminar A essays

Week 3: Oct. 9 - 13 (Plato)

Monday

Tuesday

Thursday

9:00 - 9:30:
Seminar leaders meet with Chuck

9:30 - 11:30

All Program:
Chuck

9:00 - 11:00

AM Writing Group:
Seminar B essays

9:00 - 11:00

Seminar:
Plato,Theatetus

12:30 - 2:30

Seminar:
Plato,Theatetus

12:30 - 2:30

All Program:
Workshop on rewriting

12:30 - 2:30

PM Writing group:
Seminar B essays

Week 4: Oct. 16 - 20 (Aristotle)

Monday

Tuesday

Thursday

9:00 - 9:30:
Seminar leaders (Jen, Eric, Burren, Matt) meet with Chuck

9:30 - 11:30

All Program:
Chuck

9:00 - 11:00

AM Writing Group:
Seminar A essays

9:00 - 11:00

Seminar:

Aristotle, "Categories," "On Interpretation," "Metaphysics" I, II, and IV (see assignment page)

12:30 - 2:30

Seminar:
Aristotle, "Categories," "On Interpretation," "Metaphysics" I, II, and IV (see assignment page)

12:30 - 2:30

All Program:
Workshop on rewriting

12:30 - 2:30

PM Writing group:
Seminar A essays

Week 5: Oct. 23 - 27 (Aristotle)

Monday

Tuesday

Thursday

9:00 - 9:30:
Seminar leaders meet with Chuck

9:30 - 11:30

All Program:
Chuck

9:00 - 11:00

AM Writing Group:
Seminar B essays

9:00 - 11:00

Seminar:
Aristotle, "Metaphysics" VII, IX, XII

12:30 - 2:30

Seminar:
Aristotle, "Metaphysics" VII, IX, XII

12:30 - 2:30

All Program:
Andrew Reece

Semininar:
Aristotle, "Metaphysics" VII, IX, XII and Andrew's lecture.

12:30 - 2:30

PM Writing group:
Seminar B essays

Week 6: Oct. 30 - Nov. 3 (Bacon)

Monday

Tuesday

Thursday

9:00 - 9:30:
Seminar leaders meet with Chuck

9:30 - 11:30

All Program:
Lecture and Workshop on Bacon, Chuck

9:00 - 11:00

AM Writing Group:
Seminar A essays

9:00 - 11:00

Seminar:
Bacon, The New Organon, pp. v-xxxv, 1-101, and pp. 102-135.

12:30 - 2:30

Seminar:
Bacon, The New Organon, pp. v-xxxv, 1-101

12:30 - 2:30

Seminar:
Bacon, The New Organon, pp. v-xxxv, 1-101, and pp. 102-135.

12:30 - 2:30

PM Writing group:
Seminar A essays

Week 7: Nov. 6 - 10 (Descartes)

Monday

Tuesday

Thursday

9:00 - 9:30:
Seminar leaders meet with Chuck

9:30 - 11:30

All Program:
Chuck on Plato's and Descartes' Philosophy of Mind

9:00 - 11:00

AM Writing Group:
Seminar B essays

9:00 - 11:00

Seminar:
Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

12:30 - 2:30

Seminar:
Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

12:30 - 2:30

PM Writing group:
Seminar B essays

Week 8: Nov. 13 - 17 (Descartes)

Monday

Tuesday

Thursday

Campus closed by power outage

9:00 - 11:00

AM Writing Group:
Seminar A essays

9:00 - 11:00

Seminar:
Descartes, "Objections and Replies"

Campus closed by power outage

12:30 - 2:30

All Program:
Chuck, "Descartes"

12:30 - 2:30

PM Writing group:
Seminar A essays

THANKSGIVING BREAK: Nov. 18 - 26

Week 9: Nov. 27 - Dec. 1 (Leibniz)

Monday

Tuesday

Thursday

9:00 - 9:30:
Seminar leaders meet with Chuck

9:30 - 11:30

All Program:
Chuck- some images, a thought or two about "appearance and reality" as 17th c. artists were exploring it, a tune or two...

9:00 - 11:00

AM Writing Group:
Seminar B essays

9:00 - 11:00

Seminar:
Leibniz continued, "Monadology" included

12:30 - 2:30

Seminar:
Leibniz, "Critical Remarks Concerning the General Part of Descartes' Principles," pp. 22-41 (handout), and Discourse on Metaphysics, pp. 53-93 (Oxford edition). Also, please read the "Editor's Introduction," pp. 5-49.

12:30 - 2:30

Seminar:
Leibniz continued

12:30 - 2:30

PM Writing group:
Seminar B essays

Week 10: Dec. 4 - 8 (Locke -to be continued winter quarter)

Monday

Tuesday

Thursday

9:00 - 9:30:
Seminar leaders meet with Chuck

9:30 - 11:30

All Program:
Chuck, "Leibniz on Contingency"

9:30 - 11:00

All Program:
Brian Walter, History of Calculus

9:00 - 11:00

Seminar:
Synthesis and wrap-up

12:30 - 2:30

Seminar:
Liebniz Continued

12:30 - 2:30

Seminar:
Synthesis and wrap-up

Film: "Candide," by Leonard Bernstein

Evaluation Week: Dec. 11 - 15
I hope to complete evaluation conferences by Dec. 13

Winter Break: Dec. 16 - Jan. 7:
We will read Locke and Hume on "human understading" over Winter Break. During weeks 3 - 6 of winter quarter, we will study Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. We will complete winter quarter with a study of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit.