Schedule of Bailly's section of JDHP 100: Knowledge and Theory
- 1. Jan. 20, 22
- Tuesday:
- Introductory Material: syllabus, schedule.
- Assignment for Next Time: Read Griffiths Intro. + Chapter 6
- Thursday:
- Assignment for Next Time: Skim Griffiths 1-3
- 2. Jan. 27, 29
- Tuesday:
Oral Presentations: Griffiths Chapters 1, 2, 3
- Assignment for Next Time: Skim Griffiths 4-5
- Thursday:
Oral presentations: Griffiths Chapters 4, 5
- Assignment for Next Time: Read Griffiths 7 and Aristotle's Categories 3-5 (on e-reserve)
- 3. Feb. 3, 5
- Tuesday:
Oral Presentation: Aristotelian Categories.
- Assignment for Next Time: Read Griffiths 8, skim Darnton Chapter 5 (on e-reserve)
- Spare time reading: Start Lombardo's Essential Iliad (due in a week and a half)
- Thursday:
- Answers due from: Ashley, Graham, Lauren
- Oral Presentations: Darnton Chapter 5's text; Darnton Chapter 5 Appendix
- Assignment for Next Time: Read Griffiths 9 and the excerpt from Hesiod's Theogony that is posted on this website.
- Spare time reading: Keep reading Lombardo's Essential Iliad (due in a week)
- 4. Feb. 10, 12 (We are back in Waterman 402 0n Thursday of this week!!!)
- Tuesday:
- Assignment for Next Time: Read Lombardo's Essential Iliad and Parmenides, available in an online version or in a better online version.
- Related Reading you might like: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (Vietnam War), Omeros by Walcott (Caribbean epic)
- Thursday (IN WATERMAN 402):
- Answers due from: Katie, Nathan, and Nilima
- Assignment for Next Time: Read Ong (e-reserve) and Logue's War Music
- 5. Feb. 17, 19 (We are back in Waterman 402 0n Thursday of this week!!!)
- Tuesday:
- Assignment for Next Time:
- Thursday (IN WATERMAN 402): attend lecture by Gregory Nagy at 5PM "The Poetics of Ancient
Greek Festivals," in the North Lounge, Billings.
- Answers due from: Rachel, Joe, and Liz, Zuzana
- Assignment for Next Time: Plato's Euthyphro and Apology (in The Trials of Socrates): Selectivity of Principles-Chomsky
- 6. Feb. 24, 26 (I will not be here)
- Tuesday:
- Assignment for Next Tuesday: Crito (in The Trials of Socrates): Fish Introduction (on e-reserve it is called "Taking Sides").
- Thursday: Watch film: Oleanna
- Assignment for Next Time:
- 7. March 2 (Town Meeting Day), 4
- Thursday:
- Answers due from: Ashley, Graham, Lauren
- Assignment for Next Time: Sophocles Antigone and Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (Search using the title on Google-there are many internet versions).
- 8. March 9, 11
- Tuesday:
FINAL ESSAY TOPICS DUE
- Assignment for Next Time: Plato's Protagoras
- Thursday:
- Answers due from: Katie, Nathan, and Nilima
- Assignment for Next Time: watch the film "13 Conversations about One Thing" (rent it and watch it wherever)
- Spring Break
- 9. March 23, 25
- Tuesday: Film: "13 Conversations about One Thing"
- Assignment for Next Time: Notes about Nozick on Rationality and Fish on beliefs (on e-reserve it is in two instalments called "Beliefs about belief" and "faith before reason").
- Thursday:
- Answers due from: Rachel, Joe, and Liz, Zuzana
- Assignment for Next Time: Aristotle, de Interpretatione 1.9 (on e-reserve), Aristotle Metaphysics I.3-5 (on e-reserve), Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1.1-12 (on e-reserve).
- 10. March 30, April 1 (April 1st class in Waterman 401 again)
- Tuesday:
- Assignment for Next Time: Wertheimer on Voting (on e-reserve)
- Thursday:
Guest Speaker: Alan Wertheimer
- Answers due from: Ashley, Graham, Lauren
- Assignment for Next Time: Each of you will be responsible for one of the 10 Modes of Scepticism: Ashley 1, Graham 2, Lauren 3, Katie 4, Nathan 5, Nilima 6, Rachel 7, Joe 8, Liz 9, and Zuzana 10.
- Everyone Read Introductory material in book and then skim the rest of "10 modes of scepticism."
- 11. April 6, 8
- Tuesday:
- Assignment for Next Time: Bennett's Rationality 1-3
Watch the film Run, Lola, Run in the evening in Jost Conference Room: pizza!
- Thursday:
- Answers due from: Katie, Nathan, and Nilima
- Assignment for Next Time: Bennett's Rationality 4-6
- 12. April 13, 15
- Tuesday:
- Assignment for Next Time: Bennett's Rationality 7-9
- Thursday:
- Answers due from: Rachel, Joe, and Liz, Zuzana
- Assignment for Next Time: Bennett's Rationality 10-12
- 13. April 20, 22
- Tuesday:
- Assignment for Next Time: Stoicism: Handbook of Epictetus
- Thursday:
- Answers due from: Ashley, Graham, Lauren
- Assignment for Next Time: Becker Chapters 1-3
- 14. April 27, 29
- Tuesday:
- Assignment for Next Time:Becker Chapters 4 and 5
- Thursday:
- Answers due from: Katie, Nathan, and Nilima
- Assignment for Next Time:Becker Chapters 6 and 7.
- 15. May 4
- Final: May 10, 4PM