Teaching

This page includes courses of study and their associated instructional resources, including primary sources and scaffolding. You can follow a given syllabi with its associated texts and videos at your own pacing. I encourage you please to ask questions and to request clarity by leaving comments on the videos. I want to help as much as possible, but I do not always know what is still not clear to different lived experiences.

Syllabi

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• PHIL 1301: Introduction to Philosophy

  • PHIL 1301_ Guiding Questions

• PHIL 1304: Introduction to World Religions

Courses

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• PHIL 1301: Introduction to Philosophy

• PHIL 1304: Introduction to World Religions

Annotated Readings

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• Aristotle.

  • Nicomachean Ethics, excerpts from Books I, II, and VIII, second edition, trans. Terence Irwin (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1999), xiii-xxviii, 1-30, 121-23.

• Bergson, Henri.

  • “Introduction to Metaphysics” [1903], in The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. Mabelle L. Andison (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 2007 [1946]), 133-69.

• Deleuze, Gilles.

  • “Immanence: A Life” [1995], in Pure Immanence: Essays on A Life, trans. Anne Boyman (New York: Zone Books, 2005), 25-33.

• Descartes, René.

  • Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies [1641], ed. John Cottingham, trans. John Cottingham (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013 [1986]), 3-62.

• Dewey, John.

  • Art as Experience, Ch. 1-3 (New York: Perigee [Penguin Group (USA) Inc.], 2005 [1934]), vii-viii, 1-59.

  • Justin A. Hill, “American Pragmatism {Dewey and James} Study Guide.”

• Foucault, Michele.

  • “The Discourse on Language” (trans. Rupert Swyer, 1971), in The Archaeology of Knowledge, trans. A.M. Sheridan Smith (New York: Pantheon, 1972), Appendix: “The Discourse on Language,” 215-237.

• James, William.

  • “What Pragmatism Means” [1904], in Selected Writings (Vermont/London: Everyman, 1995), xii-xliii, 3-19.

  • Justin A. Hill, “American Pragmatism {Dewey and James} Study Guide.”

• Lorde, Audre.

  • “The Uses of the Erotic,” v1, 2021 [1984], blank PDF online at https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf.

  • “The Uses of the Erotic,” v2, 2024 [1984], blank PDF online at https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf.

• Kant, Immanuel.

  • “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?” [1784], trans. Ted Humphrey (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1992), blank PDF available originally from the New York Public Library (NYPL) online at https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/kant_whatisenlightenment.pdf.

  • Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: with On a Supposed Right to Lie because of Philanthropic Concerns, Foreword, Introduction, Preface, and First Section, third edition, trans. James W. Ellington (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1993 [1785]), iv-xiii, 1-17.

• Massumi, Brian.

  • Politics of Affect, Preface and excerpt from Ch. 1 (Cambridge, UK / /Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2015), vii-xvi, 1-14.

  • Justin A. Hill, “Affect, Fields of Immi(a)nence, and Differential Attunement in Massumi’s Politics of Affect.”

• Mill, John Stuart.

  • Utilitarianism, Ch. 1-2 [1861], in The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill, ed. John Troyer (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2003), 94-115 (incl. Jeremy Bentham on “Push-Pin versus Poetry” for context).

• Nancy, Jean-Luc.

  • Being Singular Plural, trans. Robert D. Richardson and Anne O’Byrne (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000 [1996]), ix, xi-xvii, 1-21.

  • “Of Divine Places” [1986], in The Inoperative Community, trans. Michael Holland (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1991), 110-50.

• Plato.

  • Apology, in Five Dialogues, second edition, trans. G.M.A. Grube, rev. John M. Cooper (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2002), 21-44.

  • Euthyphro, in Five Dialogues, second edition, trans. G.M.A. Grube, rev. John M. Cooper (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2002), 1-20.

  • Republic, excerpts from Books I, II, IV, VI, and VII, in The Complete Works, ed. John M. Cooper, assoc. ed. D.S. Hutchinson, trans. G.M.A. Grube, rev. C.D.C. Reeve (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1997), 971-1003, 1052-77, 1126-55.

• Sartre, Jean-Paul.

  • Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions, trans. Philip Mairet (New York: Routledge Great Minds, 2014).

• Sontag, Susan.

  • “Against Interpretation” [1964], blank PDF online at https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54889e73e4b0a2c1f9891289/t/564b6702e4b022509140783b/1447782146111/Sontag-Against+Interpretation.pdf.

• Spinoza, Baruch.

  • Frank Sewall, M.A., “Introduction”, in Philosophy of Benedict de Spinoza, New Edition, trans. R.H.M. Elwes (New York: Tudor Publishing, Co., 1936), v-xii.

  • Ethics, excerpt from Part III [1677], in Philosophy of Benedict de Spinoza, New Edition, trans. R.H.M. Elwes (New York: Tudor Publishing, Co., 1936), 127-35.

Audiovisual Readings

Full video lectures of key philosophical readings (e.g., audiovisual or audio-assisted readings) available @Holy Terrain Art on YouTube.