Honors Introduction to Philosophy Richard Lee
Philosophy 2003 H 001, 002Autumn 2006

Schedule of Readings
Tentative

Plato: Wisdom & Virtue8/21 – 9/8
 
Plato:5DApology
Plato: 5DMeno
Plato: 5DEuthyphro
Plato: 5DCrito
 
First Examination9/11
 
Descartes: Skepticism & Knowledge9/13 - 9/29
 
Descartes: Meditation 1: Concerning Those Things that Can Be Called into Doubt
Descartes: Meditation 2: Concerning the Nature of the Human Mind: That the Mind is More Known Than the Body
Descartes: Meditation 3: Concerning God, That He Exists
Descartes: Meditation 4: Of Truth and Error
Descartes: Meditation 5: Of the Essence of Material Things; and, Again, of God, that He Exists
Descartes: Meditation 6: Concerning the Existence of Material Things, and the Real Distinction of the Mind from the Body
 
Hume: Deity & Evidence10/2 - 10/18
 
Hume:DialoguesII. [Design Argument, initial round]
Hume:DialoguesIV. [Why Go So Far?]
Hume:DialoguesV. [Inconveniences of Anthropomorphism]
Hume:DialoguesVI. [Other Ordering Principles]
Hume:DialoguesVIII. [The Epicurian Hypothesis]
Hume:DialoguesIX. [The "A Priori" Argument]
Hume:DialoguesX. [The Logical Problem of Evil]
Hume:DialoguesXI [The Inferential Problem of Evil]
 
Second Examination10/20
 
Searle: Mind & Cognition10/23 - 11/8
 
Searle: MB&S 0: Introduction
Searle: MB&S 1: The Mind-Body Problem
Searle: MB&S 2: Can Computers Think?
Searle: MB&S 3: Cognitive Science
Searle: MB&S 4: The Structure of Action
Searle: MB&S 6: Freedom of the Will
 
Frankfurt: Freedom & Responsibility11/10 - 12/4
 
FrankfurtTIOWECA 9:Necessity and Desire
FrankfurtTIOWECA 10:On Bullshit
FrankfurtTIOWECA 1:Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility
FrankfurtTIOWECA 2:Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person
FrankfurtTIOWECA 3:Coercion and Moral Responsibility
FrankfurtTIOWECA 5:Identification and Externality
FrankfurtTIOWECA 6:The Problem of Action
FrankfurtTIOWECA 7:The Importance of What We Care About
FrankfurtTIOWECA 8:What We Are Morally Responsible For
 
Third Examination12/7
 

This schedule is subject to change.


Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 18 August 2006