As you do the readings, I recommend that you start by reading the whole assignment through quickly. If you come across any passages that are particularly interesting or confusing, just make a light pencil mark in the margin and move on. Read through a second time, this time attending carefully both to passages / sequences you find powerful or interesting and passages you find difficult to understand or have questions about. Mark them in your text with flags, sticky notes, marginalia, underlines, or highlights. On this second read through, take copious notes about your reactions and the structures of ideas and arguments in the text.

You are expected to bring the following with you to class each week:

1. Selection(s) you find powerful or interesting – be prepared to refer to by page number.
2. Selection(s) you find difficult to understand – be prepared to refer to by page number etc., and write some notes about why they are difficult and different possible interpretations.
3. Questions you have about the interpretation, ideas, or argument of the primary texts.
4. Ideas about how to apply ideas from the text to contemporary issues in philosophy and related fields.
5. Connections or applications between this week’s readings and any previous week’s readings, where appropriate – connected to specific selections.

I may collect these at the end of class, so bring them in a format that you can hand in.