This year's President is Jason Kramer. We will be concentrating on metaphysics and epistemology, occasionally venturing into ethics and political philosophy as they bear on the former areas, through a close analysis of classic and contemporary texts. The main lectures will be supplemented by discussion sections and optional on-line discussions. There will be two midterms and a final exam. An introductory course in the theory and practice of modern logical analysis.
Emphasis is placed on the analysis of everyday arguments.
A survey of the thought of the principal philosophers of ancient Greece, with emphasis on the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle. Recommended for sophomores and above. A study of selected works of the Pre-Socratic philosophers, Plato, Aristotle and Epicurus. A survey of the writings of such principal philosophers of the modern period as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. Recommended for sophomores and above.