Lecture Schedule

Click on the links to read the lecture notes for the highlighted topics.

1. Introduction to the Presocratics; Thales
2. Anaximander
3. Anaximenes
4. Heraclitus
5. Heraclitus (cont'd.)
6. Parmenides: Stage 1
7. Parmenides: Stage 2
8. Zeno’s Paradoxes: The Race Course
9. Zeno’s Paradoxes: Plurality
10. Zeno: Race course, conclusion; Zeno’s Paradoxes: The Arrow
11. Empedocles
12. Anaxagoras
13. Atomism
14. MID-TERM EXAM
15. Socrates and Plato: Introduction
16. Plato’s Euthyphro and Meno: Socratic Definitions
17. Plato: Meno’s Paradox, Doctrine of Recollection
18. Plato: Theory of Forms; Plato’s Phaedo: Argument from imperfection
19. Plato’s Republic: Argument from knowledge
20. Plato’s Republic: One-Over-Many agument; Allegory of the Cave
21. Plato’s Parmenides: Dilemma of Participation
22. Plato’s Parmenides: Third Man argument
23. Plato’s Timaeus: Cosmology
24. Aristotle’s Categories: Theory of Predication
25. Aristotle’s Categories: Response to Dilemma of Participation
26. Aristotle’s Physics: Change
27. Aristotle’s Physics: the Four Causes, from Physics to Metaphysics
28. Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Bks. 7 & 8: Matter, Form and Substance
29. Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Bks. 7 & 8 (cont'd.)
30. Aristotle’s De Anima: On the Soul
31. FINAL EXAM

  Return to the PHIL 320 Home Page

Copyright © 2007, S. Marc Cohen