General Information

Contact Information

Professor:
 Abe Stone (abestone@ucsc.edu)
Office:
 Cowell Annex A-106
Phone (office):
 459-5723
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Website:
 http://people.ucsc.edu/~abestone/courses
Office hours:
 Tues. and Thurs., 12-1pm

Course Requirements

Attendance and participation in seminar (10%); two short (2-3 page) response/analysis papers, due Tuesday, November 4 and Tuesday, November 25 (15% each); take home final exam, due Tuesday, December 16 (60%); optionally, students may choose to write a final paper (approximately 10–15 pages) in place of the take home final, on a topic to be discussed in advance with the instructor. Exams and papers are due, as an attachment, via the “Assignments” tool on eCommons (preferably in PDF, MSWord, RTF, LATEX, or plain text; if you prefer another format, please let me know).

Texts

G.W.F. Hegel, The Encyclopaedia Logic
, tr. T.F. Geraets, W.A. Suchting, and H.S. Harris (Hackett) (ISBN: 0872200701).

The above text should be available at the Literary Guillotine and will be placed on reserve at McHenry.

Also on reserve at McHenry will be the longer Science of Logic and the other two parts of the Encyclopedia (the Philosophy of Nature and the Philosophy of Spirit). Be warned that the translations of these latter works are substandard (even by the low standards of philosophy translation).