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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Courses

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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.
James, William.
- “What Pragmatism Means” [1904], in Selected Writings (Vermont/London: Everyman, 1995), xii-xliii, 3-19.
Kant, Immanuel.
- “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?” [1784], trans. Ted Humphrey (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1992), available originally from the New York Public Library (NYPL) 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.
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.

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).
Spinoza, Baruch.
- Ethics, excerpt from Part III, 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) forthcoming @Holy Terrain Art on YouTube.