Aristotle & Friends

PHIL 301 Lectures

Note: The online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy excellent resource for supplementary background material. It’s also a great place to go if you’re looking to dig deeper into the issues introduced in class.

8/25

Vocabulary; Introduction to the Presocratics (lecture from Fall 2008) (pdf)

8/27

Thales

Anaximander

Anaximenes

9/1

Pythagoras

9/3

Hood, The Place of logos in the Philosophy of Heraclitus

Parmenides

• Parmenides powerpoint 1
• Parmenides powerpoint 2
• Parmenides powerpoint 3
• Parmenides powerpoint 4
• Parmenides powerpoint 5
• Parmenides powerpoint 6
• Parmenides powerpoint 7
• Hood, Parmenides argument
• Parmenides Poem (McKirahan translation)

9/8 *University Furlough Day – No Classes* – use the day to catch up with the reading, especially Parmenides.

Anaxagoras

• Anaxagoras 1
• Anaxagoras 2
• Anaxagoras 3

Empedocles

• Empedocles 1
• Empedocles 2

Zeno

• Zeno 1
• Zeno 2

Atomists

• Leucippus and Democritus

9/29 Plato – Introduction

• Review this chart, especially the first page. We will discuss the other pages on Thursday.
• The Presocratic Puzzle and Plato’s Solution (forthcoming)

11/3 Aristotle

• Aristotle notes

• About

  I am Dr. Pamela Hood. I'm an associate professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University.

  My research field is Ancient Greek philosophy. My focus is on Aristotle, especially study on the intersection of language, metaphysics and epistemology in the conceptual problems Aristotle identifies in the Categories as well as those this intriguing text has created.

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