Attendance and participation in seminar (10%); two short (2-3 page) response/analysis papers (on a rotating basis, as we will discuss) (15% each); take home final exam, due Tues., Mar. 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 by e-mail to the instructor (preferably in PDF, MSWord, RTF, LATEX, or plain text; if you prefer another format, please let me know).
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).