Handouts

Assignments

• Response Paper IIWed, Apr 22, 2026
• Final Project AssignmentMon, Apr 13, 2026
• Spring Break The Matrix Movie NightMon, Mar 23, 2026
• Response Paper IMon, Feb 23, 2026
• General Feedback on ShortiesWed, Feb 18, 2026
• Our Wacky Grading ScaleThu, Jan 15, 2026

Politics & society

• Thomas Hobbes, LeviathanWed, Apr 22, 2026

Meaning in life

• Iris Marion Young, “Throwing like a Girl”Wed, Apr 15, 2026
• Simone de Beauvoir, The Second SexMon, Apr 13, 2026
• Jean-Paul Sartre, “Existentialism Is a Humanism”Wed, Apr 8, 2026
• The Reasonable and the AbsurdMon, Apr 6, 2026

Knowledge & skepticism

• Alan Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”Wed, Apr 1, 2026
• Bertrand Russell, The Problems of PhilosophyMon, Mar 30, 2026
• Descartes, Zhuangzi, and The MatrixWed, Mar 25, 2026

Determinism & free will

• Harry Frankfurt, “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility”Wed, Mar 11, 2026
• The Consequence ArgumentMon, Mar 9, 2026

Philosophy & religion

• Pascal’s WagerMon, Mar 2, 2026
• Augustine and MaimonidesMon, Feb 23, 2026
• Anselm, Ibn Sina, and AquinasWed, Feb 18, 2026
• Ibn Rushd, Decisive TreatiseWed, Feb 11, 2026

Portraits of a philosopher

• The Lover of Wisdom IIMon, Feb 9, 2026
• The Lover of Wisdom IWed, Feb 4, 2026
• The Junzi IIMon, Feb 2, 2026
• The Junzi IWed, Jan 28, 2026

Introduction

• First Day of ClassWed, Jan 21, 2026
• Advice from Previous StudentsTue, Jan 20, 2026