BA, Philosophy and Western Society and Culture, Concordia University
MA, Contemporary European Philosophy, Kingston University and Université Paris 8
German Idealism (primarily Hegel), Late Medieval Philosophy, 20th-Century European Philosophy, Metaphysics
PHIL 29200-02/29300-02 Junior/Senior Tutorial
Topic: Hegel's Science of Logic
Hegel's Science Of Logic is a philosophical work of rare ambition. A presuppositionless exposition of the basic categories of thought, the text at once provides a critique of the concepts foundational to philosophical thought before Hegel, as well as the principles for the philosophical cognition of the realm of nature as well as the sphere of human freedom. In this class we will focus on the third part of Hegel's Logic in order to understand Hegel's sustained account of the nature of concepts, judgment, inference, objecthood and causation. At the same time we will try to formulate answers to the exegetical and philosophical questions that have been prominent in Hegel scholarship: What does it mean for this text to both be a work of logic as well as one of metaphysics? What do we make of Hegel's insights in light of developments in formal logic and the natural sciences since Hegel's time?
Meets with Jr/Sr section. Open only to intensive-track and philosophy majors. No more than two tutorials may be used to meet program requirements.