Part 1 Relativism and Relativity
Week 1 (15th Jan)
Bloom, A. (1987) The Closing of the American Mind, New York: Simon & Schuster
Wright, M.R. (1995) Cosmology in Antiquity, New York: Routledge
Hawking, S. (2005) A Briefer History of Time, London: Bantam Press
Hawking, S. (2002) On The Shoulders of Giants, London: Running Press
Hawking, S. (1988) A Brief History of Time, London Bantam, Introduction by Carl Sagan.
Plato, (1987a) Theaetetus,
Heraclitus, (1987) Fragments, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, http://philoctetes.free.fr/heraclite.pdf
Empedocles, (1995) Empedocles The Extant Fragments, trans M.R. Wright, London: Bristol Classical Press
Plato, (1970) The Laws, London: Penguin
Week 2 (22nd Jan)
Marcus Aurelius, (1964) Meditations, Harmondsworth: Penguin
Seneca, (1997) On the Shortness of Life, London: Penguin
Epictetus, (2004) Discourses
Epicurus, (1994) The Epicurus Reader, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company.
Sextus Empiricus, (2000) Outlines of Scepticism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Lucian, (2005) Selected Dialogues, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Plotinus, (1991) The Enneads, London: Penguin
Origen (1979) Origen, NJ: Paulist Press
Pseudo-Dionysius, (1987) Pseudo-Dionysius The Complete Works,NJ: Paulist Press.
Augustine, (1972) City of God, Harmondsworth: Penguin
Augustine, (1998) Confessions, Oxford: Oxford University Press
al-Farabi, (1985) On The Perfect State, Great Books of the Islamic World Inc.
Maimonides (1963b) The Guide of the Perplexed volume 2, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Ficino, M. (1997) Meditations on the Soul, Richester: Inner Traditions.
Week 3 (29th Jan)
Hegel, G.W.F (1975) Hegel’s Logic, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Butler, C. and Seiler, C. (1984) Hegel: The Letters, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Hegel, (1977) Phenomenology of Spirit, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Week 4 (5th Feb)
Aristotle, (1984) On The Heavens, in Complete Works volume 1, Princeton: Princeton University Press
Ptolemy, (1952) The Almagest, Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc.
Copernicus, (2002) On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres, Philadelphia: Running Press
Kepler, (2002) Harmonies of the World, Philadelphia: Running Press.
Kepler, (1995) Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, New York: Prometheus Books.
Galileo, (2002) Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, Philadelphia: Running Press.
Finocchiaro, (2008) The Essential Galileo, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company.
Brecht. B. (2006) Life of Galileo, London: Methuen.
Du Bois, W.E.B. (2001) ‘Galileo Galilei’ (1908) in The Education of Black People, New York, Monthly Review Press
Corbin, H. (1988) Avicenna and the Visionary Recital, Princeton, Princeton University Press
Nash, A.S (1944) The University and the Modern World, New York: Macmillan.
Relative space and motion
Cox and Forshaw (2009) why does E=mc2? Cambridge: Da Capo Press
Aristotle, (1984a) On The Heavens,
Galileo, (1967) Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, University of California Press.
Hawking, S. (1988) A Brief History of Time, London: Bantam Books.
Newton, (2002) Principia, Philadelphia: Running Press
Newton: (1953) Newton’s Philosophy of Nature, New York: Dover Publications.
Hawking, (2005) A Briefer History of Time, London: Bantam Press.
Smolin, (1997) The Life of the Cosmos Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Week 5 (12th Feb)
Cox and Forshaw (2009) why does E=mc2?
Hawking (2005) A Briefer History of Time
Smolin, (1997) The Life of the Cosmos
Einstein, (1996) Out of my Later Years, New York: Wings Books
Hawking, (2001) The Universe in a Nutshell, London: Bantam Press
Week 6 (19th Feb)
Heisenberg (1958) Physics and Philosophy, London: Penguin
Hawking, S. (1988) A Brief History of Time.
Heisenberg, W. (1962) The Physicist’s Conception of Nature, London: Scientific Book Guild.
Al-Khalili, J. (2008) Quantum, London: Phoenix.
Plotnitsky, (2004), ‘In Principle Observable: Werner Heisenberg’s Discovery of Quantum Mechanics and Romantic Imagination’, Parallax, 10:3, 20-35.
Part 2 Determination
Week 7 (26th Feb)
Bloom, (1987), pp. 380-2.
Plato, (1994) The Republic http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html
al-Farabi, (2001) The Political Writings, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Al-Farabi, (1998) On The Perfect State, Great Books of the Islamic World Inc.
Further reading
Ackroyd, P. (1999) The Plato Papers, London: Vintage.
Al-Farabi, (1998) On the Perfect State, Great Books of the Islamic World Inc.
Al-Farabi, (2001) Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, Cornell University Press.
Beck, F.A.G. (1964) Greek Education, London: Methuen.
Berlin, I. (1999) The First and The Last, London: Granta Books.
Bosanquet, B. (1990) The Education of the Young in the Republic, CUP.
Boyd, W. (1962) Plato’s Republic for Today, London: Heinemann.
Crossman, R.H.S. (1971) Plato Today, London: Unwin.
Dewey, J. (1993) Philosophy and Education in their Historic Relations, Oxford; Westview Press.
Field, G.C. (1967) Plato and his Contemporaries, London: Methuen.
Findlay, J.N. (1974) Plato, The Written and Unwritten Doctrines, London: RKP.
Fine, G. (ed.) (1999) Plato 2, Ethics, Politics, Religion, and the Soul, Oxford University Press.
Fine, G. (ed.) (1999) Plato 1, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Oxford University Press.
Fox, A. (1962) Plato for Pleasure, London: J.Murray.
Hegel, G.W.F. (1974) Lectures on the History of Philosophy Vol II, New Jersey: The Humanities Press.
Hogan P. (1995) The Custody and Courtship of Experience, Dublin: Columba Press.
Huby, P. (1972) Plato and Modern Morality, London: Macmillan
Jaeger, W. (1943) Paideia vol. 2, OUP. (If you read nothing else, read this!)
Jowett, B. (1953) The Dialogues of Plato, vol. IV, OUP, read The Laws.
Lodge, R.C. (1947) Plato’s Theory of Education, London: Kegan Paul and Trench.
Moore, T.W. (1974) Educational Theory: an introduction, London: RKP.
Morrish, I. (1967) Disciplines of Education, London: George Allen and Unwin.
Nettleship, R.L. (1964) Lectures on the Republic of Plato, London:Macmillan.
Plotinus, (1991) The Enneads, London: Penguin.
Popper, K.R. (1962) The Open Society and its Enemies, vol. 1, London: RKP.
Rose, G. (1996) Mourning Becomes the Law, Cambridge University Press.
Sayers, S. (1999) Plato’s Republic; an introduction, Edinburgh University Press.
Scolnicov, S. (1988) Plato’s Metaphysics of Education, London: Routledge.
Week 8 (5th March)
Rousseau, J.J. (1973) The Social Contract and the Discourses, London: Dent.
(The ‘Discourse on Origin of Inequality’ is at http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/rousseau/seconddiscourse.htm
and the ‘Discourse on Arts and Sciences’ is here: http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/rousseau/firstdiscourse.htm
see also Kant, I. (1989) Critique of Judgement, and Kant ‘Conjectural beginning of human history’ (1786)
Further reading
Abbs, P. (2003) Against the Flow, London: RoutledgeFalmer.
Bantock, G.H. (1980) Studies in the History of Educational Theory, London: George Allen and Unwin.
Bowen, J. (1981) A History of Western Education vol. 3, London: Methuen.
Boyd, W. (ed.) (1910) The Minor Educational Writings of J.J. Rousseau, London: Blackie.
Boyd, W. (1956) Emile for Today, London: Heinemann.
Claydon, L.F. (ed.) (1969) Rousseau on Education, London: Macmillan.
Curtis, S.J. and Boultwood, M.E.A. (1965) A Short History of Educational Ideas, UTP.
Dent, N. ‘The Basic Principles of Emile’s Education,’ Journal of Philosophy of Education, vol. 22, no. 2. 1989, pp. 139-149.
Dent, N. (1992) A Rousseau Dictionary, Oxford: Blackwell.
Dent, N. ‘“Anger is a short madness”: Dealing with Anger in Emile’s Education, Journal of Philosophy of Education, vol. 34, no. 2, 2000, pp. 313-325.
Dobinson, C.H. (1969) J.J. Rousseau, London: Methuen.
Grimsley, R. (1973) The Philosophy of Rousseau, OUP.
Honneth, A (1999) ‘Pathologies of the Social: The Past and Present of Social Philosophy,’ in D.M. Rasmussen (ed.). The Handbook of Critical Theory, (Oxford, Blackwell).
Luke, T.W. (1990) Social Theory and Modernity, London: Sage.
Meyer, A.E. (1975) Grandmasters of Educational Thought, New York: McGraw Hill.
O’Hagen, T. (ed.) (1997) Jean Jacques Rousseau and the Sources of the Self, Aldershot; Avebury.
Pollard, H.M. (1956) Pioneers of Popular Education, London: John Murray.
Quick, R.H. (1907) Essays on Educational Reformers, London: Longmans.
Rusk, R. (1969) Doctrines of the Great Educators, London: Macmillan.
Shaver, R. ‘Emile’s Education,’ Journal of Philosophy of Education, vol. 24, no. 2, 1990, pp. 245-255.
Stewart, W.A.C. and McCann, W.P. (1967) The Educational Innovators, London: Macmillan.
Stewart, W.A.C. (1972) Progressives and Radicals in English Education, London; Macmillan.
Tubbs, N. (1997) Contradiction of Enlightenment, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.
Week 9 (12th March)
Marx, K. (1990) Capital volume 1, London: Penguin, pp. 138-177.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm
Further reading
Bottomore, T. And Rubel, M. (1961) Karl Marx: selected writings in sociology and social philosophy, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Bottomore, T. And Nisbet, R. (eds.) (1978) A History of Sociological Analysis, London: Heinemann.
Carver, T. (ed.) (1991) The Cambridge Companion to Marx, Cambridge University Press.
Carver, T. (1998) The Postmodern Marx, Manchester University Press.
Connerton, P. (ed.) (1976) Critical Sociology, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Craib, I. (1997) Classical Social Theory, Oxford University Press.
Dant, T (1996) ‘Fetishism and the Social Value of Objects,’ Sociological Review.
Derrida, J. (1994) Spectres of Marx, London: Routledge.
Fromm, E. (1976) Marx’s Concept of Man, New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing.
Foucault, M. (1991) Remarks on Marx, New York: Semiotext(e).
Jarvis, S. (1998) Adorno, a critical introduction, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Lowith, K. (1993) Max Weber and Karl Marx, London: Routledge.
Marx, K. (1970) The German Ideology, London: Lawtence and Wishart.
Marx, K. And Engels, F. (1967) The Communist Manifesto, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
McLellan, D. (1977) Karl Marx: Selected Writings, Oxford University Press.
Morrison, K. (1995) Marx, Durkheim, Weber, London: Sage.
Singer, P. (1980) Marx, Oxford University Press.
Small, R. (2005) Marx and Education, Aldershot: Asgate Publishing.
Tubbs, N. (1997) Contradiction of Enlightenment, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.
Wheen, F. ((1999) Karl Marx, London: Fourth Estate
Wood, A. (1981) Karl Marx, London: RKP.
The following is a short list on critical theory
Bottomore, T. (1984) The Frankfurt School, London: Tavistock
Bronner, S.E. and Kellner, D.M. (1989) Critical Theory and Society, London: Routledge
Held, D. (1980) Introduction to Critical Theory, University of California Press
Horkheimer, M. (1992) Critical Theory; selected essays, New York: Continuum
Lukacs, G. (1971) The Theory of the Novel, London: Merlin Press
Lukacs, G. (1971) History and Class Consciousness, London: Merlin Press
Rose, G. (1978) The Melancholy Science: an introduction to the thought of Theodor W. Adorno, Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Wiggershaus, R. (1994) The Frankfurt School, Cambridge: Polity Press
Week 10 (19th March)
Nietzsche, F. (1968) Genealogy of Morals, New York: The Modern Library.
(see also Callicles’ argument in Plato’s Gorgias)
Further reading
Aviram, A. ‘Nietzsche as Educator,’ Journal of Philosophy of Education, vol. 25, no. 2, 1991, pp. 219-234.
Bingham, C. ‘What Friedrich Nietzsche cannot stand about education: toward a pedagogy of self-reformation,’ Educational Studies, vol 51, no. 3, Summer 2001, pp. 37-352.
Blake et al. (2000) Education in an Age of Nihilism,London: Routledge Falmer, try chapter 7.
Johnston, J.S. ‘Nietzsche as Educator: a re-examination,’ Educational Studies, vol. 48, no. 1, Winter 1990, pp. 67-83.
Lampert, L. (1986) Nietzsche’s Teaching, Yale University Press
Nietzsche, F. (1982) Thus Spake Zarathustra, Penguin, the rest of it, but particularly the Prologue and ‘On the three metamorphoses’.
Nietzsche, F. (1968) The Will To Power,New York: Vintage Books
Nietzsche, F. (1974) The Gay Science,New York: Vintage Books.
Peters, M. Marshall, J. and Smeyers, P. (eds) (2001) Nietzsche’s Legacy for Education,Westport: Bergin and Garvey.
Ramaekers, S. ‘Teaching to Lie and Obey: Nietzsche on Education,’ Journal of Philosophy of Education, vol. 35, no. 2, May 2001, pp. 255-268.
Rosen, S. (1995) The Mask of Enlightenment,CambridgeUniversity Press.
Rosenow, E. ‘Nietzsche’s Educational Legacy: Reflections on Interpretations of a controversial philosopher,’ Journal of Philosophy of Education, vol. 34, no. 4, Novenber 2000, pp. 673-685.
Sassone, L.A.‘Philosophy across the Curriculum: A democratic Nietzschean pedagogy,’ Educational Studies, vol. 46, no. 4, Fall 1996, pp. 511-524.
Solomon, R.C. and Sherman, D. (eds.) (2003) The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy,Oxford, Blackwell, chapter 5.
Tolstoy, L. (2009) My Religion: What I Believe, Guildford: White Crow.
Tubbs, N., (1997) Contradiction of Enlightenment,Aldershot: Ashgate.
Tubbs, N. (2003) ‘The Return of the Teacher’, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 35: 1.
Tubbs, N. (2005) Philosophy of the Teacher,Oxford: Blackwell.
Week 11 (26th March)
Foucault, M. (1980) Power/Knowledge London: Harvester.
Foucault, M. (1977) Discipline and Punish (Penguin)
Foucault, M. (1970) The Order of Things, (London: Routledge), Forward and Preface.
Further reading
Ashenden, S. and Owen, D. (1999) Foucault Contra Habermas, London: Sage.
Ball, S.J. (ed.) (1990) Foucault and Education, (London: Routledge)
Blake, N. (1996) ‘Between postmodernism and anti-modernism: the predicament of Educational Studies, in British Journal of Educational Studies,
Critchley, S. and Schroeder, W.R. (1998) A Companion to Continental Philosophy, Oxford: Blackwell, chapter 49.
Hoskin, K. (1979) ‘The Examination, Disciplinary Power and Rational Schooling’, in History of Education, vol. 8, no.2.
Meadmore, D. (1993) ‘The Production of Individuality Through Examination’, in British Journal of Sociology of Education, vol. 14, no. 1.
Peters. M. (ed.) (1998) Naming the Multiple, Westport: Bergin and Harvey, chapter 3.
Peters, M.A. and Ghiraldelli Jr, P. (2001) Richard Rorty; Education, Philosophy and Politics, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, chapter 4 (pick out the Foucault bits)
Peters, m.A. (2001) Poststructuralism, Marxism and Neoliberalism, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.
Usher, R. and Edwards, R. (1994) Postmodernism and Education, London; Routledge.
Raulet, G. (1983) ‘Structuralism and Post-Structuralism: An Interview with Michel Foucault, Telos, vol. 55, pp. 195-211.
Marshall, J.D. (1989) ‘Foucault and Education’, Australian Journal of Education, vol. 33, part 2, pp. 99-113.
Meadmore, D. (1993) ‘The Production of Individuality through Examination’, British Journal of Sociology of Education, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 59-73.
Pignatelli, F. (1993) ‘What Can I Do? Foucault on Freedom and the Question of Agency’, Educational Theory, Fall 1993, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 411-432.
Roth, R.J. (1992) ‘Of What Help Is He? Foucault and Education’, American Educational Research Journal, Winter 1992, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 683-694.