PHIL 501

Fall 2016 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 22-Dec 7

Seminar History of Philosophy

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Credit: 2 TO 4 hours.

Study of selected major philosophers, movements, problems, or topics in the history of philosophy.

Approved for letter and S/U grading. May be repeated. Letter grading applies when offered for 4 hours of credit. For Stage 3 Philosophy PhD students this course is approved for S/U grading when offered for 2 hours of credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor for non-philosophy graduate students.

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PHIL 501 class schedule data for fall 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	55444	Lecture-Discussion	1AN	5:00PM -6:50PM	T	Location Pending	Newton, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Credit: 2 hours Section Info: S/U graded section 2 credits for graduate students who have completed their coursework
	32681	Lecture-Discussion	AMN	5:00PM -6:50PM	T	Gregory Hall	Newton, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Section Title: History of Philosophy Section Info: In this course we will read Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment with a focus on two main topics. The first will be Kant’s conception of judgment as an exercise of cognitive faculties (of the understanding and of the power of judgment). This will require looking back at Kant’s discussion of judgment in the first Critique and in his logic lectures. Our guiding questions in this section of the course are as follows: how can aesthetic and teleological judgments be considered ‘judgments’ in Kant’s sense? Does an aesthetic judgment have a logical form? The second topic will concern Kant’s overall project in the third Critique of bridging the gap between nature and freedom, or between theoretical and practical employments of reason. How does pleasure in the beautiful provide a sensible presentation of the transition from nature to freedom? And why does the possibility of realizing freedom in nature lead Kant to think of the whole of nature as a system of purposes? Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.