Philosophy (PHIL) |
211 Susan Campbell, 541-346-5547
College of Arts & Sciences
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Academic Deadlines
| Deadline |
Last day to: |
| September 24: |
Process a complete drop (100% refund, no W recorded) |
| September 30: |
Drop this course (100% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded) |
| September 30: |
Process a complete drop (90% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded) |
| October 1: |
Process a complete withdrawal (90% refund, W recorded) |
| October 1: |
Withdraw from this course (100% refund, W recorded) |
| October 2: |
Add this course |
| October 2: |
Last day to change to or from audit |
| October 8: |
Process a complete withdrawal (75% refund, W recorded) |
| October 8: |
Withdraw from this course (75% refund, W recorded) |
| October 15: |
Process a complete withdrawal (50% refund, W recorded) |
| October 15: |
Withdraw from this course (50% refund, W recorded) |
| October 22: |
Process a complete withdrawal (25% refund, W recorded) |
| October 22: |
Withdraw from this course (25% refund, W recorded) |
| November 12: |
Withdraw from this course (0% refund, W recorded) |
| November 12: |
Change grading option for this course |
 | You can't drop your last class using the "Add/Drop" menu in DuckWeb. Go to the “Completely Withdraw from Term/University” link to begin the complete withdrawal process. If you need assistance with a complete drop or a complete withdrawal, please contact the Office of Academic Advising, 101 Oregon Hall, 541-346-3211 (8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday). If you are attempting to completely withdraw after business hours, and have difficulty, please contact the Office of Academic Advising the next business day. |
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Expanded Course Description
| The course focuses on the notion of soul in early Modern philosophy. We will focus on Modern thinkers for whom soul is not restricted to human consciousness (as it is in Descartes) but rather can be found in all of nature such that soul accounts for the self- movement, the striving, or the force of things in nature. Margaret Cavendish understands nature in terms of an infinite self-moving body and each thing in nature as well as self- moving and as having sensation, perception, and knowledge, and thus, soul. In his Ethics, Baruch Spinoza rethinks what he previously called “souls” as “minds” that are modes of being of nature (God) and are characterized by conatus, an inherent striving to persist in being. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz sought the principles of phenomena one observes in nature in what he calls monads or souls such that each monad or soul is a “primitive force.” Class time will consist in lectures concerning lineages that inform the texts we will be reading, close reading and text analysis, and class discussions. |
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