| SES # | TOPICS | LECTURE NOTES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | First class | The Apology and Crito (PDF) |
| Socrates (c. 470 BCE - 399 BCE) and Plato (429? BCE - 347 BCE) | ||
| 2 | Socrates and the Law | Study Questions for the Apology, Crito, and Euthyphro (PDF) |
| 3 | Elenchus | Socratic Definition and the Elenchus (PDF) |
| 4 | Akrasia & Pragmatic Paradox | Socrates on Weakness of Will (PDF) |
| 5 | Knowledge and Learning | Meno and the Paradox of Inquiry (PDF) |
| 6 | The Soul in Plato | Immortality and Forms in the Phaedo (PDF) |
| Aristotle (384 BCE - 322 BCE) | ||
| 7 | The Soul in Aristotle | Matter and Form, Body and Soul, in De Anima (PDF) |
| 8 | Happiness | Aristotle on Happiness (PDF) |
| 9 | Virtue | Aristotle on Virtue (PDF) |
| Renè Descartes (1596–1650) | ||
| 10 | Skepticism | Cartesian Doubt in Meditation 1 (PDF) |
| 11 | Cogito | Descartes' Cogito (Meditation 2) (PDF) |
| 12 | Existence of God | Descartes on God and Matter (Meditations 3–5) (PDF) |
| 13 | Distinction between Mind and Body | The Real Distinction between Mind and Body (Meditation 6) (PDF) |
| Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) | ||
| 14 | Intelligent Matter | No lecture notes for this session |
| David Hume (1711–1776) | ||
| 15 | Empiricism | Hume's Empiricism (PDF) |
| 16 | Induction | Hume on Induction (PDF) |
| 17 | Causation | Hume on Causation (PDF) |
| Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) | ||
| 18 | The Good Will | Kant and the Moral Will (PDF) |
| 19 | Hypothetical and Categorical Imperatives | Kant's Categorical Imperative (PDF) |
| 20 | Hypothetical and Categorical Imperatives (Cont.) | No lecture notes for this session |
| John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) | ||
| 21 | Utilitarianism | Mill's Utilitarianism (PDF) |
| 22 | Women's Rights? | The Subjection of Women (PDF) |
| 23 | Slavery | Three Philosophers on Slavery (PDF) |
| W. E. B. DuBois (1868–1963) | ||
| 24 | Double Consciousness | Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk (PDF) |
| Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) | ||
| 25 | Transcendence | Beauvoir on Gender, Oppression, and Freedom (PDF) |
| 26 | Last class | No lecture notes for this session |