Phi 449
Fall 2015
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Calendar. The assignments below are approximate and tentative. (Pages marked ‘A’ and ‘B’ are those in the 1st and 2nd edition, respectively; ‘GW’ indicates pages in the Guyer-Wood translation.)

8/28pref prefaces (A vii–xxii, B vii–xliv; GW 99–124)
8/31intro introduction (B 1–30; GW 136–152)
9/2aesthetic §§1-7 (B 33-58; GW 172–184)
9/4  §8 (B 59–73; GW 185–192)
9/7categories logic & and the table (B 74–116; GW 193–218)
9/9  transcendental deduction, 2nd ed. version (B 116–143; GW 219–226, 245–252)
9/11  B deduction cont’d (B 144–169; GW 253–266)
9/14principles schematism & principles (B 176–197; GW 271–283)
9/16  first analogy (B 197–202, 218–232; GW 283-286, 295–304)
9/18  2nd analogy (B 232–256; GW 304–316)
9/21  refutation of idealism (B 274–294; GW 326–337)
9/23  phenomena and noumena (B 294–315; GW 354–365)
9/25dialectic ideas (B 349–396; GW 384–408)
9/28  paralogisms (B 396–432; GW 409–415, 445–458)
9/30  1st antinomy (B 432–475; GW 459–475)
10/2  3rd & resolution of 1st (B 472–479, 545–551, 556–560; GW 484-489, 525-528, 530-532)
10/5  resolution of 3rd (B 560–586; GW 532–546)
10/7  ideal of pure reason (B 596–619; GW 551-563)
10/9  ontological and cosmological arguments (B 620–648; GW 563–578)
10/12  regulative use of the ideas (B 671–696; GW 590–604)
10/14method canon of pure reason (B 823-859; GW 672–690)
midsemester break
10/19  Michelle Grier, “Kant on the Illusion of a Systematic Unity of Knowledge,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 14 (1997), pp. 1-28—on JSTOR at 27744728
10/21  cont’d
10/23  student questions
10/26  cont’d
10/28  Derk Pereboom, “Kant on Transcendental Freedom,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 73 (2006), pp. 537-567—on JSTOR at 40041010
10/30  cont’d
11/2  Andrew Chignell, “Kant’s Concepts of Justification,” Noûs, vol. 41 (2007), pp. 61-91—on EBSCO at AN 23984248
11/4  cont’d
11/6  Manley Thompson, "Singular Terms and Intuitions in Kant’s Epistemology,” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 26 (1972), pp. 314-343—on JSTOR at 20126210
11/9  cont’d
11/11  Daniel Dahlstrom, “Heidegger’s Kantian Turn: Notes to His Commentary on the ‘Kritik Der Reinen Vernunft’,” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 45 (1991), pp. 329-361—on JSTOR at 20129178
11/13  cont’d
11/16  Onora O’Neill, “Kant on Reason and Religion,” in Grethe B. Peterson (ed.), The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, vol. 18 (University of Utah Press, 1997), pp. 267-308—PDF file on the Tanner Lectures website
11/18  cont’d
11/20  paper discussion 1
Thanksgiving break
11/30  discussion 2
12/2  discussion 3
12/4  discussion 4
12/7  discussion 5
12/9  discussion 6
12/11  discussion 7
exam week
12/18Fri final paper due