Day 1: Welcome
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Welcome!
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Take up course outline
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Course web site
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Brainstorm “Epistemology” & “Metaphysics”
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Why take this course?
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Assign Reading
Course
Outline
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Office Hours
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Required Texts
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Course Requirements
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Policy on Plagiarism and Cheating
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Grade Conversion and Grade Calculation
Instructor &Course Websites
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Course site: go to the above and click “Kant” under Fall Course Outlines
Brainstorm
“Epistemology” & “Metaphysics”
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First thing that comes to mind
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No right or wrong answers
Why
Take this Course?
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The questions mentioned thus far strike you as interesting
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To get a better understanding of the history of western philosophy, a
tradition in which Kant is a giant.
Discuss Brainstorm
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Different senses of “metaphysics”
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Broad use: same as ontology, what exists?, eg, God, soul, freedom,
morality, mathematical objects, tables, chairs, atoms, dreams, …
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A narrow use: that which is beyond the physical, eg,God, soul, spirits,
ghosts, the supernatural…
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Kant’s use of “metaphysics” early in the CPR: God, soul, freedom
and morality
Reading Assignment
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“Pr”
refers to the Prolegomena….
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“CPR”
refers to the Critique of Pure Reason
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Pr
3-12, skip section 3: introduction
and preamble to the Prolegomena.
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CPR 7-37:
prefaces to the first and second editions of the
CPR