All Episodes

12. 17th c poetry: Done with Donne

9. Film and Philosophy: Berkeley

8. Film and Philosophy Plato's Cave

11. 17th Century Poetry: Satire 3 Concluded and Some Holy Sonnets

10. 17th Century Poetry: Satire 3 ("Kind pity chokes my spleen")

7. Film and Philosophy -- Mainly on Dark City

9. 17th C Poetry: Donne's Valediction Forbidding Mourning

8. 17th century poetry: Donne's "To His Mistress Upon Going to Bed" and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."

6. Ontology and the image, from Plato to Cavell

7. Seventeenth Century Poetry: Donne's poem "Love's Alchemy"

6. 17th Century Poetry -- Donne's "Ecstasy" and "Love's Alchemy"

5. Film and Phil: Bazin on Theater vs. Film - clip of rear window

4. Film -- A couple of scenes from Out of the Past, and discussion of La Jetée

5. 17th Century Poetry Donne's "Go and Catch a Falling Star" and "The Ecstasy"

4. 17th c poetry -- some of Donne's secular poems against fidelity

Film 3. Aura and Maguffin. Close viewing of Out of the Past

3. 17th century poetry

2. 17th century poetry. Why death? - more on Donne's "At the round earth's imagined corners"

2. Philm (get it?) - versions of continuity

Intro to Film and Philosophy: their reciprocity, Marclay's Telephones

Selfhood in 17th century poetry: Some Donne

Keats' Odes to Psyche and to a Nightingale

Last class on The Triumph of Life

Second Class on The Triumph of Life

Adonais and the opening of The Triumph of Life

The Fall of Hyperion and To Autumn

Keats and Hyperion: the young poet

LR. First Class on Keats: Eve of St. Agnes

Last class on Prometheus Unbound

Resistance and knuckling under

More on Mont Blanc and Prometheus Unbound

"The Two Spirits: An Allegory", Mont Blanc and an Introduction to Prometheus Unbound

Seeing souls in Frankenstein

Frankenstein, again, Prometheus, and Satan

10. Frankenstein via Byron and The Witch of Atlas

The Witch of Atlas: Phosphor reading by her own light

Don Juan, Canto 5

LR 7: Don Juan Cantos 3-4

LR 6: Don Juan Canto 2: Juan and the Narrator

Later Romantix 5: First Class on Don Juan

4 How to talk about the Byronic Hero

Shelley and Byron on Byron

Later Romantics 2: Wordsworth and Milton

1. The Later Romantics: Introduction on Shelley and Wordsworth

Infinity 24: Last class: review and final explication of Zeno

Diagon Alley

Infinity 22: Newcomb's problem; Shelley

Infinity 21: Klee, Kant, Shelley

Infinity 20: Kant on Perception and Free Will

Infinity 19: Hume on induction, Kant on space and time, especially space

Infinity 18: Descartes, Gibson, Turing Tests

Infinity 17: Etherization

Infinity 16: Making Prisoner's Dilemma Vivid

Infinity 15: Pascal

Infinity 14: Polls and other minds

Infinity 13: Elementary probability and the philosophy of probablity

Pascal, the anthropic principle, what counts in philosophy

Infinity 11: by addition, by division, one-to-one correspondence, Macbeth, and time

Infinity 10: Augustine on time and language

Infinity 9: Something of a change of pace

Infinity 8: Philosophical questions

Infinity 7: Aristotle and the reality of space and time

Parmenides, Anaximander, Hilbert, the Fifth Postulate

Infinity 5: Extension and intension and interesting numbers

Sets and counting

Infinity 3: God's Point of View

Infinity 2: Borges

First class on Thinking About Infinity

Last class - Milton

Last class on Merrill's Book of Ephraim

Marvell

Ephraim 4/26/12

Satan, God, Adam and Eve

Keeping them down on the farm

Ephraim 4/23/12

Book of Ephraim, con't 4/19/12

Milton

Book of Ephraim, con't 4/18/12

Paradise Lost introduced yet once more

Who or what we took Ephraim to Be

Ephraim, 2nd class

Crashaw, Cowley, interiority, counter-reformation, Poetry to God and metaphysical conceits

Book of Ephraim

A last class on Herbert

Last class on Turn of the Screw

Turn of the Screw, part 6

Herbert: second class

Turn of the Screw, part 5

Herbert: first class

Turn of the Screw, Part 3: Dworkin again

Turn of the Screw, part 3

Herrick

Turn of the Screw, Part 2: Permutations

Ben Jonson

Turn of the Screw, Part 1: the frame narrative

Childe Roland, Concluded

First class on Browning's Childe Roland

Second class on Donne

Some poems of Donne's

Mont Blanc, concluded