Blogging Schedule

8/29		Introduction to the course, What is late modern philosophy?
8/31	Prof. Vaught	The peculiar fate of reason, morality: Critique of Pure Reason, First Preface*, and Second Preface (Prolegomena, pp. 139-53)
9/5		Metaphysics as a science?: Prolegomena, Preface, Preamble (pp. 5-23)
9/10		Transcendental philosophy and metaphysics: Prolegomena, General Question (pp. 24-31)
9/12	Jon P.	Space and time, pure mathematics: Prolegomena, First Part (pp. 32-45)
9/17	Esther	Pure a priori synthetic judgments, pure nature: Prolegomena, Second Part (pp. 46-78); Recommended: Critique, Transcendental Logic (pp. 161-91)
9/19	Linna	Rational ideas: Prolegomena, Third Part (pp. 79-101), Critique, Transcendental Dialectic (pp. 192-4)
9/24	Hui	The purpose of metaphysics: Prolegomena, Third Part, Solution (pp. 102-22)
10/1	Julian	Responding to critics: Prolegomena, Appendix(pp. 123-134); Recommended: Background Materials (pp. 201-11)
10/3		Reason unconstrained: “What is Enlightenment?”*
10/10	Ed	Reason against the understanding: “The Need of Philosophy”*
10/15	Brett	Cognition as medium or instrument?: Phenomenology, “Introduction”*
10/17	Maria	Cognition as a false problem: Phenomenology, “Introduction”*
10/22	Chris L.	Unmediated knowing: Phenomenology, “Sense-Certainty”*
10/24	Chris G.	Inevitable mediation: Phenomenology, Sense-Certainty”*
10/29	Tom	Desire for recognition: Phenomenology, “Mastery and servitude”*
10/31	David	Advantageous bondage: Phenomenology, “Mastery and servitude”*
11/5	Bryan	Who is Johannes de Silentio?:, Fear and Trembling, Preface (pp. 3-6)
11/7	Jenn	The poetry of faith, for Abraham: Fear, “Tuning Up”, “A Tribute to Abraham” (pp. 7-20)
11/12	Kevin	Who is a knight of faith?: Fear, “Preliminary Outpouring” (pp. 21-46)
11/14	Shanna	Is faith outside ethical teleology?: Fear, “Problem I” (pp. 46-59)
11/19	Khrystyna	Is faith still a duty?: Fear, “Problem II” (pp. 59-71)
11/21	Colleen	Can Abraham be an aesthetic and a religious hero?: Fear, “Problem III” (pp. 71-109)
11/26	Ethan	Genealogy, “Preface” (pp. 3-10)
11/28	John H.	Noble and slave moralities: Genealogy, “First Essay” (pp. 11-37)
12/3	T.	Overcoming forgetting: Genealogy, “Second Essay” (pp. 38-71)
12/5	Fernando	Priests and life: Genealogy, “Third Essay”, §1-12 (pp. 72-91)
12/10	Linna	Science and life: Genealogy, “Third Essay”, §13-28 (pp. 92-128)