CRN 86712 PHP 6415 001 Kant

Fall Semester 2004

Martin Schönfeld

9/29/04 Assignment

 

Syllabus

 

 

Meetings:          Wednesdays, 19:00-21:50, FAO 248

 

Office Hours:     Tuesdays, 16:00-18:00, FAO 221

 

Contact:            974-5698 (phone), 974-5914 (fax), and mschonfe@chuma.cas.usf.edu

 

Content:            This is a graduate seminar on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).  We will read Kant’s main work, Critique of Pure Reason (1781/87), as well as some of his late political writings.

 

Format:             Seminar-style, with a mixture of discussions, presentations, and lectures.

 

Goal:                To train you to teach Kant on your own, and to add ‘Kant’ as an AOC to your CV.

 

Grading:            The course grade is based primarily (50%) on a research paper (ca. 15 pp.), a presentation (10 minutes; 4 pp.; 25%), and an in-class midterm exam (25%).

 

                        The research paper can be on a topic of your own choice (or be assigned, as you like); please inform me about your topic before you start working on it.  The paper is due on the final examination date for the course, Wednesday, December 8.  The criteria for grading are based on your command of the material, coherence and organization of your argumentation, and familiarity with secondary literature.

 

                        The presentation is on a passage from the Critique of Pure Reason (see list); the goal is to introduce a selected text clearly, accurately, and efficiently.

 

                        The midterm is on Kant’s jargon, i.e. the definitions of the terms used.  The goal is to acquaint oneself with the technical terms needed for reading the text.  The format is a mixture of multiple-choice questions and one-sentence answers.

 

Texts:               Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, tr. Norman Kemp Smith (New York: St Martin’s Press 1965)

 

                        Immanuel Kant, On History, ed. Lewis White Beck (New York: Macmillan 1963)

Presentation Topics from the Critique:

 

  1. Preface to Second Edition
  2. Introduction
  3. Transcendental Aesthetic: Space § 1-3
  4. Transcendental Aesthetic: Time, and General Observation § 4-8
  5. Transcendental Logic: Introduction I-IV
  6. Transcendental Analytic: Analytic of Concepts: Judgments § 9
  7. Transcendental Analytic: Analytic of Concepts: Categories § 10-12
  8. Transcendental Analytic: Analytic of Concepts: Deduction § 13-14
  9. Transcendental Analytic: Analytic of Concepts: B-Deduction § 15-19
  10. Transcendental Analytic: Analytic of Concepts: B-Deduction § 20-23
  11. Transcendental Analytic: Analytic of Concepts: B-Deduction § 24
  12. Transcendental Analytic: Analytic of Concepts: B-Deduction § 25-27
  13. Transcendental Analytic: Analytic of Principles: Introduction
  14. Transcendental Analytic: Analytic of Principles: Schematism I
  15. Transcendental Analytic: Analytic of Principles: Schematism II
  16. Transcendental Analytic: Analytic of Principles: Axioms of Intuition
  17. Transcendental Analytic: Analytic of Principles: Anticipations of Perception
  18. Transcendental Analytic: Analytic of Principles: Analogies of Experience: First Analogy
  19. Transcendental Analytic: Analytic of Principles: Analogies of Experience: Second Analogy
  20. Transcendental Analytic: Analytic of Principles: Analogies of Experience: Third Analogy
  21. Transcendental Analytic: Analytic of Principles: Postulates of Empirical Thought
  22. Transcendental Analytic: Analytic of Principles: Refutation of Idealism
  23. Transcendental Dialectic: Transcendental Illusion I-II
  24. Transcendental Dialectic: Transcendental Ideas
  25. Transcendental Dialectic: Dialectical Inferences: Paralogisms of Pure Reason
  26. Transcendental Dialectic: Dialectical Inferences: Refutation of Mendelssohn’s Proof
  27. Transcendental Dialectic: The Antinomy of Pure Reason (several presentations viable)
  28. Transcendental Dialectic: The Ideal of Pure Reason: Impossibility of Ontological Proof
  29. Transcendental Dialectic: The Ideal of Pure Reason: Impossibility of Cosmological Proof
  30. Transcendental Dialectic: The Ideal of Pure Reason: Impossibility of Teleological Proof
  31. Transcendental Dialectic: The Ideal of Pure Reason: Critique of All Theology
  32. Transcendental Dialectic: Appendix: Regulative Employment of the Ideas
  33. Transcendental Doctrine of Method: The Canon of Pure Reason

PHP 6415 Kant

Fall Semester 2004

Martin Schönfeld

Handout 1: Some of Kant’s Works

 

1747     Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces                                      Book 1

1754     The “Spin Cycle” essay                                                                                       Paper

1755     Concise Outline of Some Meditations on Fire                                                       Master’s thesis

1755     General Natural History and Theory of the Cosmos                                               Book 2

1755     New Clarification of the First Principles of Metaphysical Cognition              Doctoral thesis

1756     Joining Metaphysis & Geometry in Natural Philosophy: Physical Monadology         Professorial thesis

1756-9  Papers on earthquakes, winds, motion, perfection, and logic

1763     Only Possible Ground of Proving God’s Existence                                                Book 3

1764     Silberschlag-Review: Theory of Comets                                                                Book review

1764     Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime                                 Treatise

1764     The “Prize-Essay” (Distinctness of Principles of Natural Theology & Morals)            Treatise

1766     Sorcerer’s Dreams                                                                                             Treatise

1768     Directions in Space                                                                                            Paper

1770     On the Form and Principles of the Sensible-but-Intelligible World                            Inaugural thesis

1771     Moscati-Review: Structure of Humans and Animals                                               Book review

1775     Metaphysik L 1                                                                                                  Lecture notes

1781     Critique of Pure Reason                                                                                  Book 4

1783     Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics Becoming Science                                 Treatise

1784     What is Enlightenment?                                                                                     Paper

1784     Idea about a General History from Regard to a Global Village                                 Paper

1785     Herder-Review: Ideas for a Philosophy of Human History                                        Book review

1785     Groundwork to a Metaphysic of Morals                                                           Treatise

1786     Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science                                                       Book 5

1786     Speculative Beginning of Human History                                                               Paper

1787     Critique of Pure Reason, B-edition                                                                       Book 4, revised

1788     Critique of Practical Reason                                                                                Book 6

1790     Critique of Judgment                                                                                           Book 7

1793     Religion within the Bounds of Pure Reason                                                           Book 8

1794     The End of All Things                                                                                          Paper

1795     Toward Eternal Peace                                                                                         Treatise

1797     Metaphysics of Morals                                                                                       Book 9

1798     The Conflict of Faculties (part 2: Whether Humans Make Progress)                        Treatise

1785-1803 The “Opus Postumum” (Transition from Metaphysics to Physics)                       Book 10