Studying at UoL

2001-2002

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Philosophy of Science

Course schedule  [PDF 6pgs, 21KB]

Logic & Metaphysics

Course schedule  [PDF 2pgs, 14KB]

Readings for Truth  [PDF 2pgs, 9KB]

Truth sample questions  [PDF 1pg, 9KB]

Consciousness  [PDF 7pgs, 26KB]  

Consciousness reading  [PDF 2pgs, 13KB]  

Term 1 Weeks 6 - 10 Modality and Logic backup class readings  [PDF 2pgs, 10KB]  

Modality sample questions  [PDF 1pg, 7KB]  

Backup class notes on the Liar  [PDF 7pgs, 16KB]

Epistemology and Methodology

Aims, objectives and course schedule  [PDF 2pgs, 15KB

Autumn 2001: Scepticism, Truth-Tracking and A Priori Knowledge - schedule of lectures and principal readings  [PDF 2pgs, 9KB]

Readings:  G. E. Moore on Scepticism  [PDF 2pgs, 9KB]

Readings: Reliabilism and internalism  [PDF 2pgs, 9KB]  

Readings: A priori knowledge  [PDF 2pgs, 9KB]

Probabilities and Lewis’s Bombshell  [PDF 21pgs, 38KB]

Term 1 Essay Questions  [PDF 1pg, 7KB]

Ethics

Course schedule   [PDF 3pgs, 10KB]

Handout on Moral Normativity  [PDF 4pgs, 13KB]

Political Philosophy

COURSE STRUCTURE  [PDF 2pgs, 9KB]

THE MARKET AND JUSTICE  [PDF 5pgs, 11KB]

Greek Philosophy

Course Structure  [PDF 2pgs, 8KB]

Course Schedule  [PDF 5pgs, 16KB]

Material for first level of the course

Plato and the Presocratics Readings for lectures  [PDF 5pgs, 12KB]

Lecture notes

  1. Can We Inquire? Meno's Paradox of Inquiry  [PDF 6pgs, 16KB]
  2. Answering Meno's Paradox, Puzzlement & Socratic Method  [PDF 6pgs, 16KB]
  3. Puzzles about Particulars 1: Recollecting Forms  [PDF 7pgs, 17KB]
  4. Puzzles about Particulars 2: Forms as Explanations  [PDF 10pgs, 23KB]
  5. 5: Forms and Particulars 1: Philosophical Understanding  [PDF 10pgs, 24KB]
  6. 6: Forms and Particulars 2: Understanding & the Good  [PDF 11pgs, 26KB]
  7. References - Plato's Theory of Forms and the Parmenides  [PDF 2pgs, 12KB]
  8. Plato  [PDF 3pgs, 11KB]  
    1. Lecture 1: Some Thoughts On Platonic Forms  [PDF 3pgs, 13KB]
    2. Lecture 2: Plato's Version Of The Third Man Argument  [PDF 3pgs, 11KB]
    3. The Republic: The Similie Of The Cave  [PDF 2pgs, 8KB]
    4. Lecture 3: Plato's Moral Mathematics  [PDF 3pgs, 13KB]
    5. Lecture 4: Soul & Body In Plato's Phaedo  [PDF 3pgs, 12KB]
    6. Lecture 5: The Divided Mind In Plato's Republic  [PDF 3pgs, 13KB]
    7. Lecture 6: The Immortal Soul In Plato  [PDF 3pgs, 13KB]

Greek Ethics - week 1:

Questions  [PDF 3pgs, 10KB]

Introduction and Plato’s Apology  [PDF 2pgs, 9KB]

Readings for Weeks 1-5  [PDF 2pgs, 8KB]

Modern Philosophy

COURSE SCHEDULE  [PDF 2pgs, 9KB]

LOCKE READING  [PDF 4pgs, 14KB]

DESCARTES LECTURES  [PDF 3pgs, 11KB]

DESCARTES HANDOUTS  [PDF 3pgs, 13KB]

DESCARTES READING  [PDF 3pgs, 11KB]

Philosophy of Mind

COURSE SCHEDULE  [PDF 3pgs, 10KB]

TERM ONE STRUCTURE  [PDF 2pgs, 8KB]

BODILY SENSATIONS READING LIST  [PDF 1pg, 30KB]

BODILY SENSATIONS HANDOUT  [PDF 1pg, 41KB]

MATERIALISM READING LIST  [PDF 3pgs, 12KB]

Philosophy of Religion

COURSE DETAILS AND READING LIST  [PDF 8pgs, 19KB]

COURSE SCHEDULE  [PDF 3pgs, 11KB]

PART I - MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY  [PDF 9pgs, 21KB]

PART II - RELIGIOUS EPISTEMOLOGY  [PDF 4pgs, 12KB]

Aesthetics

Course Schedule 2001-2  [PDF 3pgs, 12KB]  

Part I - Art, Romanticism and Metaphysics

Part I lecture schedule, background reading and essay questions  [PDF 5pgs, 21KB]  

Art and Truth  [PDF 2pgs, 15KB]

Romantic Theory of Art I  [PDF 5pgs, 25KB]

Romantic Theory of Art II  [PDF 4pgs, 24KB]

Schelling's Philosophy of Art  [PDF 4pgs, 23KB]

Tragedy and Metaphysics  [PDF 4pgs, 24KB]

Heidegger & Merleau-Ponty  [PDF 4pgs, 14KB]

Gadamer, Adorno, Lyotard  [PDF 6pgs, 21KB]

Medieval Philosophy

BIBLIOGRAPHY  [PDF 2pgs, 9KB]

COURSE SCHEDULE  [PDF 3pgs, 10KB]

Kant

Course Schedule  [PDF 3pgs, 12KB]

Critique of Pure Reason readings  [PDF 11pgs, 21KB]

Philosophy of Maths

Course Schedule  [PDF 2pgs, 12KB]

19th Century German Philosophy

Course Schedule 2001-2  [PDF 3pgs, 14KB]

Part I: German Idealism: Fichte, Schelling and Hegel    

German Idealism Reading List  [PDF 11pgs, 33KB]

German Idealism: Chronology  [PDF 9pgs, 31KB]

Friends and Enemies of the Kantian Philosophy: Reinhold, Schulze and Maimon  [PDF 4pgs, 20KB]

Fichte I: The 'I' as First Principle in the Wissenschaftslehre  [PDF 4pgs, 23KB]

Fichte  II: Derivation of Not-I and Intersubjectivity in the Wissenschaftslehre  [PDF 4pgs, 22KB]

Schelling  I: Hölderlin's Insight and Schelling's Departure from Fichte  [PDF 4pgs, 19KB]

Schelling  II: Naturphilosophie and the Problem of Evil  [PDF 4pgs, 22KB]

Hegel: Glossary  [PDF 6pgs, 22KB]

Hegel  I: Phenomenology of Spirit: Methodology & Absolute Knowledge  [PDF 5pgs, 26KB]

Hegel  II: Phenomenology of Spirit: Epistemology of Object-Consciousness  [PDF 4pgs, 14KB]

Hegel  III: Phenomenology of Spirit: Self-Consciousness and Recognition  [PDF 7pgs, 23KB]

Hegel  IV: Hegel's Ethical Theory  [PDF 7pgs, 21KB]

Hegel V: Hegel's Logic  [PDF 5pgs, 16KB]

Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein

Aims, objectives and course schedule  [PDF 2pgs, 7KB] 

Reading list  [PDF 4pgs, 11KB]

Marxism

COURSE SCHEDULE  [PDF 2pgs, 8KB] 

READING LIST  [PDF 3pgs, 10KB]

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Studying at UoL