Miskatonic University Philosophy Department
Instructor: MG Miller
Autumn Quarter, 2003
9:30 - 11:00am
Caius Phillipus Faber, Liber Ivonis
Gaspard du Nord, Livre D'Ivon
Virgil, The Aeneid
Scheffler, Conceptions of Cosmopolitanism
Dante Alighieri, La Commedia, esp. Inferno
Introduction
Week 1, Tue, Aug 26:
Introduction and Formalities
Liber Ivonis
Week 1, Thu, Aug 28:
Brief Overview of Ancient Hyperborea, Manuscript 1, p. 3-11.
Week 2, Tue, Sept 2:
History of the Elders, Manuscripts 2 & 3, p. 12-38.
Week 2, Thu, Sept 4:
Life of Eibon, Manuscripts 4, 5, 6, p. 39-97.
Hyperborean Knowledge and Confirmation
Week 3, Tue, Sept 9:
Reader, T. Young, Papyrus of Dark Wisdom
Week 3, Sept 11:
Reader, C. Lecnar, Eibonic Applications of Philosophy, Ch. 1-3
Week 4, Tue, Sept 16:
* * * First Three Page Paper Topic Available Today * * *
Reader, C. Lecnar, Philosophy of Un-natural Science, Ch. 4
Reader, M. Snow, The Confirmation of Hyperborian Laws and Theories
Week 4, Thu, Sept 18:
Hyperborean Knowledge, and Review
Greek Institutionalism
Week 5, Tue, Sep 23:
Reader, D. Fitts, Grecian Philosophical Tendencies
Week 5, Thu, Sept 25:
* * * First Three Page Paper Due Today, 9:30 AM * * *
Reader, J. Lesher, Characterization of Xenophones of Colofon
Roman Cosmopolitanism
Week 6, Tue, Sept 30:
Conceptions of Cosmopolitanism, S. Scheffler, p. 1-64
Week 6, Thu, Oct 2:
Conceptions of Cosmopolitanism, S. Scheffler, p. 65-112
Week 7, Tue, Oct 7:
Conceptions of Cosmopolitanism, S. Scheffler, p. 113-130
Week 7, Thu, Oct 9:
Varieties of Cosmopolitanism, P. Kleingeld, p. 9-27
Roman Stoicism
Week 8, Tue, Oct 14:
Reader, Von Arnim, Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta
Reader, Rist, Stoic Philosophy, 47-80
Week 8, Thu, Oct 16:
Reader, Schofield, Doubt and Dogmatism: Studies in Hellenistic Epistemology, 37-62
Reader, G. Verbeke, The Presence of Stoicism in Medieval Thought
Week 9, Tue, Oct 21:
* * * * MID-TERM EXAM IN CLASS * * * *
Realism, Anti-Realism, and Rationality
Week 9, Thu, Oct 23:
Reader, B. van Fraassen, Arguments Concerning Scientific Realism
Week 10, Tue, Oct 28:
Reader, A. Fine, And Not Anti-Realism Either
Week 10, Thu, Oct 30:
Representing and Intervening, I. Hacking, p. 1-31
Week 11, Tue, Nov 4:
Representing and Intervening, I. Hacking, p. 31-64
Week 11, Thu, Nov 6:
Representing and Intervening, I. Hacking, p. 65-91
Reader, T. Kuhn, Reflections on My Critics
Week 12, Tue, Nov 11:
* * * * Veterans Day - NO CLASS * * * *
Tempting Fate: The Parchments of Pnom
Week 12, Thu, Nov 13:
Geneology and Exorcism in the Hyperborean Age, L. Kohlberg, p. 1-14
Week 13, Tue, Nov 18:
Geneology and Exorcism in the Hyperborean Age, L. Kohlberg, p. 15-38
Week 13, Thu, Nov 20:
Geneology and Exorcism in the Hyperborean Age, L. Kohlberg, p. 39-52
Week 14, Tue, Nov 25:
Polarion Before the Fall of Commoriom, T. Wright, p. 28-60
Week 14, Thu, Nov 27:
* * * * Thanksgiving Day - NO CLASS * * * *
Alighieri's Commedia and Philosophical Training
Week 15, Tue, Dec 2:
Reader, C. Davis, Dante and the Idea of Rome, p. 19-36
Inferno, Alighieri, Cantos 1-16
Week 15, Thu, Dec 4:
Reader, Gilson, Dante and Philosophy
Inferno, Alighieri, p. 17-35
Summary and Conclusion