Classes are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-10:45, in Dodd Hall 167.
(NB: The username and password you’ll need to open the audio and pdf files below are not identical with your Bruin login.)
| # | Date | Theme | Readings | Scribes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tuesday, 3 April |
The ‘First Philosopher’ | Barnes, Introduction (pp. xi-xxxv), and Ch. 2, on Thales (pp. 9-17) | Andreas Schmidhauser [pdf⁺] |
| 2 | Thursday, 5 April |
Heraclitus | Barnes, Ch. 8 (pp. 48-73), with focus on Heraclit. frr. DK 22 A 6, B 12, B 49a, B 91 [audio] | Natalie Jahanbani, Azar Shirazi, Jason Tapia [pdf⁺] |
| 3 | Tuesday, 10 April |
Parmenides i | Barnes, Ch. 9 (pp. 77-91) [audio]
NB: First essay is due Monday, 9 April, 10 pm. |
Josh Blinzler and Nam Lee [pdf⁺] |
| 4 | Thursday, 12 April |
Parmenides ii | Barnes, Ch. 10 (pp. 92-98) [audio] | Jennifer Ta and Sari Weiser [pdf⁺] |
| 5 | Tuesday, 17 April |
Plato’s theory of Forms i | Plat. resp. 474B-521B [audio] | Amy Angeli and Lance Swegart [pdf⁺] |
| 6 | Thursday, 19 April |
Plato’s theory of Forms ii: the Sun, the Divided Line, and the Cave | Plat. resp. 474B-535A, focus on 509D-521B [audio] | Erik Dietz, Jonathan Jones, Anthony Manning [pdf] |
| 7 | Tuesday, 24 April |
Criticisms of the theory of Forms i | Plat. Parm. 126A–137C [audio] | Alexa Guzman and Erica Low [pdf] |
| 8 | Thursday, 26 April |
Criticisms of the theory of Forms ii | Plat. Parm. 126A–137C [audio] | Patrick Austin, Ryan Woo, Wei Zhao [pdf] |
| 9 | Tuesday, 1 May |
The Third Man & The theory of Forms revised i | Plat. Parm. 131E–132B, 132D–133A and Soph. 216A–268D [audio] | Jose Guzman, David Mireles, Owa Odighizuwa [pdf] |
| 10 | Thursday, 3 May |
The theory of Forms revised ii | Plat. Soph. 260A–264B [audio] NB: Second essay is due Thursday, 3 May, 8 am. |
Geoff Bowen and Theresa Brostoff [pdf] |
| 11 | Tuesday, 8 May |
Non-being and falsehood | Plat. Soph. 260A–264B [audio] | Andrew Gauthier, William Hunter, Hunter Paletsas [pdf] |
| 12 | Thursday, 10 May |
Plato’s physics | Plat. Tim. 17A–92C, focusing on Tim. 27D-29B and 47E-52D [audio corrupt…] | Nik Cook, Julian Feldbein-Vinderman, Aileen Sinanyan [pdf] |
| 13 | Tuesday, 15 May |
Aristotle on change i | Arist. phys. 1, esp. 1.7, 189b30–191a22, on qualitative and substantial change [audio] | Sophia Dai, Maria Gutierrez, Jonathan Lai [pdf⁺] |
| 14 | Thursday, 17 May |
Aristotle on change ii & Nature and causation | Arist. phys. 2, esp. 2.3 and 2.7, 194b16–195a2, on the four types of cause [audio] | Chelsey Harlan, Ryan Kachold, Murray Taylor [pdf⁺] |
| 15 | Tuesday, 22 May |
Aristotle’s second account of change in terms of potentiality and actuality | Arist. phys. 3.200b12–202b30 [audio] | Elizabeth Alvarez and Alex King [pdf] |
| 16 | Thursday, 24 May |
Aristotle on Place | Arist. phys. 4.208a27–213a12 [audio] NB: Third essay is due Thursday, 24 May, 8 am. |
Ambar Khan and Nick Rapp [pdf] |
| 17 | Tuesday, 29 May |
Aristotle on substance | Arist. met. Z 1-3 [audio] | Min Lee, Paramdeep Sandhu, Roger Smith [pdf⁺] |
| 18 | Thursday, 31 May |
Aristotle on essence | Arist. met. Z 4-6 [audio] | Aaron Crafts, Darby Vickers, Christopher Yoon [pdf] |
| 19 | Tuesday, 5 June |
Aristotle on immanent individual forms | Arist. met. Z 8 [audio] | John Downey, Ricky Loa, Kirsten Polley, Jessica Pray [pdf⁺] |
| 20 | Thursday, 7 June |
Aristotle on universals | Arist. met. Z 13-16 [audio] | Dawn MacCarthy and Alexandro Rios [pdf⁺] |
| 21 | Tuesday, 12 June |
Final examination | Texts discussed in class | Sunday’s Study Session [audio] |