Reading Assignments
| Date | Assignment |
|---|---|
| April 30 |
Read Chapter 12 of Man and People (pp. 258-272) and this article on Ortega and the social sciences by Arthur Warmoth. There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| April 23 |
No new reading assignment. Review Chapter 11. |
| April 16 |
Read Chapter 11 of Man and People (pp. 222-257). There’ll be an online quiz on this material. Also, find out everything you can about the recent Don Imus affair. We’ll be reflecting on it as an example of the dynamics of social power. A good place to begin is right here. |
| April 9 |
No new reading assignment. Review Chapter 10. Conjectures to the effect that there might be a second quiz on Chapter 10 of Man and People turn out in fact to have been false. |
| April 2 |
Read Chapter 10 of Man and People (pp. 192-221). There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| March 26 |
No new reading assignment. On Monday and Wednesday this week, we’ll be serving as a venue in which candidates for the position the Philosophy program is currently trying to fill will be giving demonstration classes. Class will of course be meeting inside. On Friday, we’ll finish up the discussion of Chapter 9. Class on Friday will be outside unless the weather is crummy. |
| March 14 |
Read Chapter 9 of Man and People (pp. 176-191). There’ll be an online quiz on this material (one that’ll appear on Blackboard at noon on Tuesday, March 13). |
| March 12 |
Read Chapter 8 of Man and People (pp. 171-175). There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| March 5 |
Read Chapter 7 of Man and People (pp. 139-170). There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| February 28 |
Read Chapter 6 of Man and People (pp. 112-138). There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| February 26 |
No new reading assignment for today, but see the assignment for Wednesday. The discussion today (i.e., on the 26th) will be on the part of Chapter 5 that begins with the discussion of philosophy itself that starts in the paragraph that begins near the bottom of p. 98. |
| February 19 |
Read Chapter 5 of Man and People (pp. 94-111). There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| February 12 |
Read Chapter 4 of Man and People (pp. 72-93). There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| February 5 |
Read Chapter 3 of Man and People (pp. 57-71). There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| February 1 |
Read Robert O’Connor’s “Ortega’s Reformulation of Husserlian Phenomenology.” There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| January 29 |
Read Chapter 2 of Man and People (pp. 38-56). There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
| January 24 |
Read this set of extracts from History as a System. |
| January 22 |
Read the front matter and Chapter 1 of Man and People (pp. 1-37). There’ll be an online quiz on this material. |
