Philosophy and Literature

PHIL 333 -- Virtual Course Pack of Selected Readings

Poetics Aristotle, Poetics

Hill OCD St. Augustine of Hippo, On Christian Doctrine [CCEL] [De Doctrina Christiana]

 

"If You Like This Chapter...": Suggested Resources for the Research Paper
(given in addition to the bibliography suggestions found in your course text at the end of each chapter)

  1. Ancient semiotics: [Kirby reviews Manetti]
  2. Semiotics of nature: [Hoffmeyer on biology and biosemiotics] [Emmeche on emergence]
  3. Umwelt and modelling: [Deely on Umwelt] [Kull on evolution] [Sebeok on syntax]
  4. Logic and cognition: [Logic as semiotics] [Stjernfelt on abstraction]
  5. Realism and epistemology: ["A sign is what?"] [Sebeok on "Can Animals Lie?"]
  6. Peirce: [On a New List of Categories]

 

Semiotics: Miscellaneous Suggested Resources for the Research Paper

John Deely, "Umwelt", Semiotica 134.1-4 (2001), 125-135.

John Deely, "A sign is what?" [PDF]

John Deely, The Impact on Philosophy of Semiotics [PDF]

John Deely, Basics of Semiotics

René Girard, "Mimetic Desire in the Underground", in Resurrection from the Underground.

René Girard, "Nietzsche and Contradiction", Stanford Italian Review 6 (1986) 53–65.

René Girard, "Literature and Christianity: A Personal View", Philosophy and Literature 23.1 (1999) 32-43.

René Girard, "Are the Gospels Mythical?", First Things 62 (Apr 1996): 27-31. [Download PDF]

René Girard, "The Evangelical Subversion of Myth", in Politics and Apocalypse, Robert Hamerton-Kelly ed. (MSU Press: Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture, 2007).

"René Girard's Accusation: Intellectuals are the Castrators of Meaning", An interview with Giulio Meotti in Il Foglio (March 20, 2007); Translation by Paul N. Faraone and Christopher S. Morrissey in Modern Age (Spring 2008): 180-185.

René Girard, "On War and Apocalypse", First Things 195 (Aug/Sept 2009): 17-22.

Jacques Maritain, Art and Scholasticism

Sandra Miesel, "The Real History of the Holy Grail", Crisis (Sept 2004).

Roger Scruton, "The Sacred and the Human", Prospect Magazine (August 2007).

Roger Scruton, Beauty (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Robert Sokolowski, "Picturing"

Robert Sokolowski, "Quotation"

Robert Sokolowski, "Knowledge and Its Representation in Writing, Computers, and the Brain"

Robert Sokolowski, "Visual Intelligence in Painting"

Robert Sokolowski, "Exact Science and the World in Which We Live"

 

Further Reading: The Latin Age

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae

Duns Scotus, c. 1302-1303. Ordinatio, Liber Primus, Volume III of the Opera Omnia, ed. P Carolus Balic (Rome: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1954).

William of Ockham, i. 1317-1328. Summa Logicae, ed. Philotheus Boehner (New York: St. Bonaventure, 1951-1954).

Petrus d'Ailly, c. 1372. Conceptus et Insolubilia, annotated trans. by Paul Vincent Spade as Concepts and Insolubles (Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1980).

Dominicus Soto, 1529, 1554. Summulae (1st ed., Burgos; 3rd rev. ed., Salamanca; Facsimile of 3rd ed., Hildesheim, NY: Georg Olms Verlag).

Petrus Fonseca, 1564. Instituiçoes Dialecticas (Institutionum Dialecticarum Libri Octo), ed. Joaquim Ferreira Gomes (Coimbra: Instituto de Estudos Filosoficos da Universidade de Coimbra, 1964), 2 volumes.

Conimbricenses, 1607. "De Signis", being Chapter 1 of their commentary on Aristotle's De Interpretatione, in Commentarii Collegii Conimbricensis et Societatis Jesu. In Universam Dialecticam Aristotelis Stagiritae. Secunda Pars (Lyons: Sumptibus Horatii Cardon).

John Poinsot, 1632. Tractatus de Signis.