Michael R Baumer
Classes for Spring 2011

m.baumer@csuohio.edu

• Spring 2011: PHL 262 Medieval Philosophy
  • Syllabus
  • Outline of the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle
  • General notes on Neoplatonism
  • Notes on Plotinus
  • Confessions Book I and beginning of Book II
  • Confessions remainder of Book II
  • Confessions Books III-VI
  • Paper Topics
  • Notes on Confessions Books VII, XI, and XII
• Spring 2011: GRK 102: Introduction to Ancient Greek II
  • Syllabus
• Spring 2011: PHL 410/510 Medieval Aristotelianism
  • Syllabus: html | pdf
  • Aristotle's philosophy and the problem of universals
  • Physics I
  • Physics II-III
  • Physics IV
  • Physics V
  • Physics VI
  • Physics VII-VIII
  • The problem of projectile motion
  • Schedule of Topics and Readings, Installment One
  • Brief Notes on Aristotle on the Shape of the Earth
  • Notes on Aristotle, Galileo, and Kepler on the Earth
• Fall 2010: PHL 220 Philosophy, Fantasy, and Science Fiction
  • Syllabus
  • Canons and Perpetual Intellectual Problems
  • The Drake Equation and Ontology
  • Notes on Aristotle's Poetics
  • Homer's Odyssey and Aristotle's Poetics
  • Notes on Odyssey Book I
  • Guidelines for Short Literary Critical Essays
  • Timeline of Odyssey I
• Fall 2010: GRK 101 Introduction to Ancient Greek I
  • Syllabus
• Fall 2010: PHL 481/635 Metaphysics
  • Syllabus
  • Notes on Plato's Parmenides
  • Notes on Plato's Timaeus
  • Guidelines for Choosing a Term Project Topic
• Summer 2010: PHL 131 Deductive Logic
  • Syllabus for PHL 131 Deductive Logic (this is a .pdf)
  • Preview of Midterm Exam
• Summer 2010: PHL 261 Ancient Philosophy
  • Syllabus for PHL 261 Ancient Philosophy (this is a webpage)
  • Ancient Philosophy Lecture One
  • A Note on Hesiod and the Totality of Things
  • The Ionian Philosophers
  • The Eleatic Philosophers (Parmenides and Zeno)
  • Pythagoras, the Pythagoreans, and Empedocles
  • The Atomists
  • Sensation and Thought (Including a Brief Treatment of Anaxagoras)
  • Notes on Plato's Parmenides
  • More Detailed Notes on the Last Part of Plato's Parmenides
  • Notes on Plato's Symposium
  • Notes on Plato's Phaedrus
  • Notes on Plato's Republic Book I
  • Notes on Plato's Apology
  • Notes on Plato's Phaedo
  • Notes on Aristotle's On Interpretation
  • Propositions, Categories, and Natures
  • Notes on Categories 1-5
  • Notes on Remainder of Categories
  • Notes on Physics Book I
  • Notes on Physics Books II and III
  • Notes on Physics Book IV
  • Notes on Physics Book V
  • Notes on Physics Book VI
  • Notes on Physics Books VII and VIII
  • Notes on Metaphysics Books III, IV, VI, and VII
  • Notes on Metaphysics Book VIII
  • Essay Questions for Final Exam
• Spring 2010: PHL 262 Medieval Philosophy
  • Syllabus for Medieval Philosophy (this is a pdf)
• Brief General Notes on Neoplatonism
• Notes on Plotinus
• Preliminary Notes on St Augustine
• St. Augustine
• Augustine: Notes on Confessions
• Outline of Confessions Installment Two
• Notes on Confessions installment three
• Confessions Books 7, 11, 12
• Notes on De Hebdomadibus
• Notes on Boethius Theory of Universals
• Notes on Boethius
• Notes on Pseudo-Dionysius
• Notes on Anselm's argument
• Notes on Abelard
• Notes on Al-Farabi
• Notes on Avicenna Metaphysics Book 8
• Emanation for Islamic philosophers
• Formalizations of Avicenna's and Anselm's Proofs for God
• Al Ghazali's accusations against the philosophers (pdf)
• The Errors of the Philosophers According to Al-Ghazali
• Notes on Averroes on the Eternity of the World
• Revised schedule for last four weeks medieval 2010
• Medieval final essay questions spring 2010
• Notes on Maimonides and Aquinas
• Spring 2010: PHL 491/505 Senior Seminar in Philosophy / Prominent Philosophers. Topic: Plato and Aristotle
  • (Handouts (somewhat edited to be more rationally arranged and in some cases less tentative than versions handed out in class. All are pdfs.)
  • 1. Syllabus
  • 2. Instructions for the “Literature Review” stage of term project
  • 3. Some texts of general relevance to the broad sweep of the course (from Diogenes Laertius and Aristotle)
  • 4. (For fragments of Parmenides’ poem please see Electronic Course Reserve)
  • 5. Notes on Plato’s Parmenides
  • 6. Parmenides’ Hypotheses Concerning the One Itself (in Plato’s Parmenides)
  • 7. Truth table showing the inconsistency, and thus perhaps the aporetic nature, of Parmenides’ set of hypotheses
  • 8. Notes on Russell’s Paradox and the Interpretation of Plato’s Parmenides
  • 9. Overall parts of Philebus
  • 10. Notes on Philebus (Installment I)
  • 11. Notes on Philebus Installment II
  • 12. Notes on Philebus Installment III
  • 13. New Summary of Philebus NEWLY-REVISED
  • 14. Notes on Symposium and Clouds
  • 15. Supplementary Notes on Symposium
  • 16. Notes on Phaedrus
  • 17. Supplementary notes on last part of Phaedrus
  • 18. Resonances of Arguments (in Tetralogy 3)
  • 19. Linked Themes of Tetralogy 3
  • 20. Narrative Chronologies of the Dialogues Based on Events in Alcibiades’ Life (and for the Last Part, Socrates’ Life)
  • 21. Notes on Timaeus
  • 22. Notes on Plato’s Cratylus
  • 23. Theaetetus Notes Installment One
  • 24. Theaetetus Notes Second Installment
  • 25. Additions to Notes on Theaetetus
  • 26. Philosophy 491 Revised Schedule
  • 27. Essay questions for Plato and Aristotle Spring 2010
  • 28. Notes on Sophist
  • 29. Notes on Sophist II
  • 30. Poetics 20
  • 31. Notes on Categories
  • 32. Notes on Post-Predicamenta
  • 33. Notes on On Interpretation
• Fall 2009: PHL 181 Historical Introduction to Philosophy