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• Is it defensible to employ a semantic interpretation to understand the Mādhyamika doctrine of śūnyatā? (Year 3, 4,000 words) 90%
• How does art illuminate Merleau-Ponty’s task of articulating his relational ontology based on flesh? (Year 3, 4,000 words) 85%
• Is second order quantification adequately characterised as plural quantification? (Year 2, 2,500 words) 80%
• Does pre-established harmony improve upon interactionism and occasionalism? (Year 2, 2,500 words) 80%
• Explain and evaluate the epistemic solution to the Sorites Paradox. (Year 1, 1,000 words) 80%
• What is the connection, if any, between Aristotle's claim that 'the human being is by nature a political animal' (Politics 1.2) and his view that 'the function of the human being is activity of the soul in conformity with reason' (Ethics 1.7)? (Year 1, 1,000 words) 80%

• Lecture Videos (1-9) in a YouTube playlist
• Reading List

• Lecture Videos (1-5, more coming soon)
• Textbook for Module

• Lecture Videos (1-5, more coming soon)
• Reading List

• Lecture videos upon request, but they are just summarisations of the required reading.
• Reading List (Readings tagged essential are lecture/seminar readings)

Lecture Videos and Textbooks

• Weeks 1-4: Modal Logic Lectures
• Modal Logic Primer Textbook
• Reading for Modal Logic: David Lewis - On the Plurality of Worlds (downloadable on libgen (link))
• Weeks 5-6: Second-Order Logic Lectures
• Second-Order Logic Primer Textbook
• Coming Soon - Weeks 7-8: Intuitionistic Logic Lectures
• Intuitionistic Logic Primer Textbook

Lecture Videos

• Week 1: Truth-Functional Logic
• Week 2: Natural Deduction for TFL
• Week 3: More Natural Deduction for TFL
• Week 4: First-Order Logic
• Week 5: The Syntax of FOL
• Week 6: Counter-Interpretations
• Week 7: Natural Deduction for FOL
• Week 8: More Natural Deduction for FOL

• Additional logic Q&A sessions

See here for the textbook used for the module and here for the solutions.

See here for additional exercises for each week.

• Lecture Videos (1-8)
• Reading List (Essential readings are seminar readings)

Selected Presentations:

• Wouter Hanegraff - Noetic Enlightenment and Rebirth in Hermetic Spirituality
• Bas Jacobs - Historicising Transformative Experience: A Perspective from History of Religions
• Flavio Geisshüsser - Clothed in Nakedness: Direct Transcendence Meditation and the Contemplative Experimentation with Consciousness
• Jeffrey Kripal - The Superhumanities: Why Anonymous and Extreme Experiences Are Central to the Humanist Canon
• Jens Schlieter - Experimenting with Transformative Experiences and the Concept of Religious Experience

Find more about other papers (sorry technical difficulties and I couldn't record!) here.

• All publications accessible here in a PDF.
• All lectures on YouTube.

Doing Things with Words in Philosophical Discussion: Authority, Gender, and Empowerment, by Rae Langton Mini Lecture Series on Reduction and Emergence in the Sciences, by Patricia Palacios Mini Lecture Series on the Suspension of Belief: Its Nature, Rationality and Logic, by Alexandra Zinke Fellows' Talks Student Presentations Student Posters

Link, courtesy of my friend Einstein. Includes:

In English:
• PHIL3561 Kyoto School
• PHIL4183 Philosophy of Science
• PHIL4262 Existentialism
• PHIL4532 Later Heidegger

In Chinese:
• PHIL2020 History of Chinese Philosophy I
• PHIL2030 History of Chinese Philosophy II
• PHIL2301 莊子內七篇

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Selected Presentations:

• Dermot Moran - History, Tradition, Worldview: The Complexities of Embodying the Cultural Flesh
• Jacky Yuen Hung Tai - Struggle with the State's Irresponsibility: Revisiting Arendt's Idea of Responsibility
• Man To Tang - The Oblivion of Cultural Origin
• Liu Zhe - Foreignness in Cultural Otherness: Intercultural Experience fiom Perpetual Peace to Cultural Rebirth
• Jean-Claude Jens - Participation to Other Cultural Fleshes in the Dark age of Excarnation
• Kwok Ying Lau - Reflections on Methodological Thematic Issues of Intercultural Philosophy from the Phenomenological Approach
• Hector G. Castaño - Cultural Flesh and the Limits of Culture
• Thomas Nenon - Stefan Zweig's and Edmund Husserl's Nostalgia for a Lost (Non-exclusionary) Europe
• Zhihua Yao - "Beingness" (satta) and "Isness" (astitva): On the Chinese Translation of Sein

• Course Syllabus
• Week 1: Slides, Readings: Reason and Belief - Richness and Diversity in Indian Thought, Vātsyāyana on Nyāyasūtra 1.1.2
• Week 2: Readings: Foundations of Brahmanism: Vedas and Upaniṣads, Kena Upaniṣad Selection, Chāndogya Upaniṣad Selection, Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad Selection, Kaṭha Upaniṣad Selection
• Week 3: Readings:Early Buddhism Basic Teachings, Theravada Philosophy of Mind and the Person, Mahā Nidāna Sutta, Mahādukkhakkhandha Sutta, Bṛhadāraṇyaka and Chāndogya Upaniṣads Selections
• Week 4: Readings: Perrett, Introduction to Indian Philosophy (pp. 49-59), Introduction to Tattvakaumudī on Sāṃkhyakārikā, Nyāya Sūtra Introduction
• Week 5: Readings: Introduction to Indian Philosophy (pp. 78-84; 59-70), Nyāya Sūtra on Knowledge Sources
• Week 6: Slides, Readings: Intro to Indian Philosophy (pp. 70-77; 86-99), Cārvāka on Inference, Vigrahavyāvartanī (pp. 12-13, 29-35)
• Week 7: Slides, Readings: Perrett, Introduction to Indian Philosophy (pp. 140-155), Siderits, A Nyāya Interlude (pp. 84-92)
• Week 8: Slides, Reading: Perrett, Introduction to Indian Philosophy (pp. 168-196)
• Week 9: Slides, Reading: Perrett, Introduction to Indian Philosophy (pp. 155-167, 197-211, 212-227 recommended)
• Week 10: Slides, Reading
• Week 11: Slides, Reading
• Week 12: Readings on Bhagavad Gita: Patton, Full Text, Miller, “The Bhagavad Gītā – Context and Text” (pp. 1-14)

• Lecture Recordings (1-11)
• Tutorial Recordings (1-5)
• Readings
  • Edelglass, W., Garfield, J. L. (2009). Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings.
  • Siderits, M. (2007). Buddhism as Philosophy: An Introduction.
  • To be Updated

• Readings with Exercises
• Part 1: Form and Semantics
• Part 2: Proof Theory
• Part 3: Further Topics
• Exercises
• Formalisation for Propositional Logic
• Short Truth Table Exercise, Truth Table Exercise, More Truth Table Exercises
• Basic Predicate Formalisations, Predicate Logic I, More Predicate Formalisation, Predicate Logic II
• Models and Counterexamples, Semantic Trees for Predicate Logic, More Semantic Trees
• Proof Theory I, More Proof Theory, Proof Theory II
• Revision

• Descartes on Doubt and the Senses
Further Reading

• Cottingham, J. (1986) Descartes (Oxford: Blackwell): Ch. 2
• Hatfield, G. (2003) Descartes and the Meditations (London: Routledge): Ch. 3
• Hatfield, G. (2008) ‘René Descartes’, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, esp. 3.1
• Malcolm, N. (1956) ‘Dreaming and Scepticism’, Philosophical Review 65: 14-37
• Williams, B. (1978) Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry (Harmondsworth: Penguin): Ch. 2
• Wilson, C. (2003) Descartes’s Meditations: An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press): Ch. 1 and 2
• Wilson, M. D. (1978) Descartes (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul): Ch. 1

• Descartes on Mind and Body
Further Reading

• Nagel, T. (1974) 'What is it like to be a bat?', Philosophical Review 83
• Descartes, R. Discourse on the Method, Part 4
• Descartes, R. Second Replies; Fourth Replies
• Descartes, R. Letters to Elizabeth, 21st May, 28th June, 1643
• Cottingham, J. Descartes,Ch. 5
• Kenny, A. Descartes, Ch. 4 and 10
• Williams, B. Descartes, Ch. 4 and pp. 213–27
• Churchland, P. Matter and Consciousness, Ch. 2

• Locke on Philosophy and Innateness
Further Reading

• Atherton, M. (1998) ‘Locke and the Issue over Innateness’, in V. Chappell, ed., Locke (Oxford: Oxford University Press): 48-59
• Harris, J. (1974) ‘Leibniz and Locke on Innate Ideas’, Ratio 16: 226-42
• Lowe, E. J. (1995) Locke on Human Understanding (London: Routledge): Ch. 2
• Wall, G. (1974) ‘Locke’s Attack on Innate Knowledge’, Philosophy 49: 414-19

• Locke on Ideas, Qualities and Substances
Further Reading

• Alexander, P. (1974) 'Boyle and Locke on Primary and Secondary Qualities', Ratio 16 (1974)
• Alexander, P. (1985) Ideas, Qualities, and Corpuscles
• Bennett, J. (1971) Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Ch. IV
• Lowe, E. J. (1995) Locke on Human Understanding, Ch. 3 and 4
• Mackie, J. L. (1976) Problems from Locke, Ch. 1, 3, 4
• Smith, A. D. (1990) ‘Of Primary and Secondary Qualities’, Philosophical Review 1990
• Stroud, B. (2002) The Quest for Reality: Subjectivism and the Metaphysics of Colour, Ch. 2 and 3

• Berkeley on Perceivable Things
Further Reading

• Bennett, J. Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Ch. V–VI
• Dancy, J. Berkeley
• Fogelin, R. Berkeley and the Principles of Human Knowledge
• Grayling, A.C. Berkeley: The Central Arguments, Ch. 1–2
• Pitcher, G. Berkeley, Ch. VI–X
• Warnock, G. Berkeley, Ch. 5–9
• Winkler, K.P. Berkeley: An Interpretation, Ch. 6

• Hume on Experience, Substance and the Self
Further Reading

• Morris, W. (2009) ‘Hume’, in Stanford Encyclopedia ofPhilosophy, esp. Section 4: Account of the Mind
• Bennett, J. (1971) Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Ch. IX
• Flew, A. (1969) Hume’s Philosophy of Belief, Ch. II
• Stroud, B. (1977) Hume,Ch. II

• Hume on Causation and Necessity
Further Reading

• Ayer, A.J. Hume, Ch. 4
• Carnap, R. The Elimination of Metaphysics through Logical Analysis of Language
• Morris, W. David Hume, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Strawson, G. The Secret Connexion, Ch. 2 and 3
• Stroud, B. Hume, Ch. III and IV

• Hume on Reason and Morality
Further Reading

• A.J. Ayer (1936) Language Truth and Logic, Ch. 6
• Baillie, J. (2000) Hume on Morality, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook
• Cohon, R. (2004) Hume's Moral Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Harrison, J. (1976) Hume’s Moral Epistemology
• Mackie, J.L. (1980) Hume's Moral Theory, Ch. 3-7
• Miller, A. (2003) An Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics, Ch. 3
• McNaughton, D. (1988) Moral Vision, Ch. 2
• Norman, R. (1983/98) The Moral Philosophers, Ch. 5
• Norton, D.F. (1993) 'Hume, Human Nature and the Foundations of Morality', in D.F. Norton (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Hume
• Stroud, B. (1977) Hume, Ch. 7-9
• Van Roojen, M. (2009) Moral Cognitivism vs Non-Cognitivism, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Leibniz on Truth, Substance and Necessity
Further Reading

• Look, B. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Macdonald Ross, G. Leibniz (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984): 57-60; 73-100
• Mates, B. The Philosophy of Leibniz (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986): Ch. II, V, VI, and IX
• Russell, B. A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz, 2nd ed (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1937): Ch. I-IV

• Spinoza on God and Nature
Further Reading

• Allison, H. (1987) Benedict de Spinoza: An Introduction (New Haven: Yale University Press)
• Bennett, J. (1984) A Study of Spinoza's Ethics (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing)
• Delahunty, R. (1985) Spinoza (London: Routledge)
• Della Rocca, M. (2008) Spinoza (London and New York: Routledge)
• Donagan, A. (1988) Spinoza (Chicago: University of Chicago Press)
• Garrett, D. (1996) The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
• Koistinen, O. (2009), The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza's Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
• Nadler, Steven (2006), Spinoza's Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
• Lloyd, G. (2001) Spinoza: Critical Assessments (London: Routledge)

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