Greek Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle - PHIL1903

Welcome to PHIL1903. If you are taking the course this semester, please make a note of the URL of this page or bookmark it in your browser.

The course in 2006/2007 will be somewhat different from previous versions, but the basic topics will remain similar.  

Schedule of lectures/classes

Materials for the course can be found from the Schedule page.

Other links

This is a selection of links to material elsewhere that you might find useful for this course. 

Reading

         The prescribed texts for this version of the course are:

Julia Annas (ed.) Voices of Ancient Philosophy: An Introductory Reader [abbreviated VAP]
Plato (trans. H. Tredennick) The Last Days of Socrates [LDS]

In previous versions of the course we have used a couple of texts that you will find useful:

S. Marc Cohen, Patricia Curd, and C.D.C. Reeve (eds.) Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy [CCR]
Terence Irwin (ed.) Classical Philosophy [CP]

Guidance for the Course

How will you be assessed?  40% comes from two coursework assignments; 60% from the final exam. The exam is currently scheduled for ? May at ?. To get an idea of what the exam will look like, here is a sample paper, and here are the papers for 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2005.

A brief guide to writing philosophy essays (by Ronald Hepburn, courtesy of the Edinburgh Philosophy Department's website - this copy is here).

Tutorial Projects

A list of tutorial reading is here, with names of those students in each project group.

Contact

You can contact me by e-mail to edbrandon@gmail.com (please allow this address access to the e-mail account you have given me).  On campus I may be reached at 417 4023; messages can be left at 417 4021.  In an emergency, you may reach me by phone at 424 8461.

Ed Brandon

last revised 5 January 2007.