Individual Meetings with Instructor(s): Wednesday 3:00-4:00, FAO 231 and FAO 212
Joanne Waugh
974-5571, FAO 231
Additional office hours: Tuesday 3:00-5:00, and by appointment
Sidney Axinn
974-2454, FAO 212
Office hours by appointment
Required Texts:
Kant. I. Critique of Pure Reason, Norman Kemp Smith, trans. St. Martin’s
Kant, I. Critique of Pure Practical Reason, Lewis White Beck, trans., Prentice-Hall
Kant, I. Perpetual Peace and Other Essays, Ted Humphrey, Hackett
08-28 Introduction
09-04 Preface and Introduction to Critique of Pure Reason (CPR) A & B editions; Transcendental Doctrine of Elements
09-11 Part I. Transcendental Aesthetic: Section I: Space; Section II: Time
09-18 Part II. Transcendental Logic; Division I. Transcendental Analytic; Book I. Analytic of Concepts. Chapter I. Sections I, II, III
09-25 Chapter II. Deduction of the Pure Concepts, Section I, II & III (A edition)
10-02 Section II & III (B edition)
10-09 Book II. Analytic of Principles. Chapters I: Schematism; Chapter II: Section I: Analytic Judgments; Section II: Synthetic Judgments, Section III, Part 1: Axioms of Intuition & Part 2: Anticipations of Perceptions
10-16 Section 3: Analogies of Experience; and Section 4: Postulates of Empirical Thought
10-23 Chapter III; Phenomena and Noumena; and Appendix: Amphiboly of Concepts of Reflection
10-30 Transcendental Dialectic: Introduction, Books I: Concepts of Pure Reason; and Book II: Dialectical Inferences of Pure Reason. Chapter I: Paralogisms (A & B editions)
11-06 Chapter II: Antinomy of Pure Reason
11-13 Chapter III: Ideal of Pure Reason. Appendix to Transcendental Dialectic
11-20 Transcendental Doctrine of Method; Chapters I & II
11-27 Critique of Pure Practical Reason (CPPR) Part I, Book I
12-04 CPPR, Part I, Book II, Part II.
12-11 “Perpetual Peace”
All students are required to attend every seminar meeting, and to submit at the beginning of each meeting an outline of the reading. This is your ticket of admission to the seminar; without the outline of the reading assignment you will not be able to attend the seminar. Attendance, participation, and the outlines of the readings constitute 50% of the final grade for the course. The remaining 50% of the grade will be determined by a research paper of at least 12 and no more than 20 pages written by the student.