Schedule:

3.10: Introduction

Excerpts from Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics

10.10: Frankfurt vs. Watson, Beginning the Contemporary Debate

Harry Frankfurt, “Freedom the of the Will and the Concept of a Person” (1971)

Gary Watson, “Free Agency” (1975)

17.10: Augustine and the Foundations of Voluntarism

Augustine and the Divided Will

OPTIONAL: Sarah Byers, “The meaning of Voluntas in Augustine” (2006)

24.10: Frankfurt’s Mature Voluntarism

Harry Frankfurt, “On Caring” (1999)

OPTIONAL: Harry Frankfurt, “The Importance of What We Care About” (1982)

31.10: Guest Lecture by Tobias Hoffmann

7.11: Anselm and the Devil’s Free Will to Defy God

Anselm, De casu diaboli

OPTIONAL: T. Williams, “Anselm’s Quiet Radicalism” (2016)

14.11: Criticism of Frankfurt: Wolf and the Good

Susan Wolf, “The True, The Good, and the Lovable” (2002)

OPTIONAL: Susan Wolf, “Asymmetrical Freedom” (1980)

21.11: Aquinas’ Intellectualism (?)

Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae Ia, q. 82, aa. 3-4: Will and Intellect

28.11: Howard on the Rationality of Love

Chris Howard, “Fitting Love and Reasons to Love” (2023)

5.12: Scotus on the Will

Intellect is not rational, Will only is

OPTIONAL: González-Ayesta C. “Scotus’ Interpretation of the Difference between VOLUNTAS UT NATURA and VOLUNTAS UT VOLUNTAS” (2008)

12.12: Holton and Strong Voluntarism

Richard Holton, “How is Strength of Will Possible?” (2003)

19.12: TBD

2.1: Wallace on Addiction and the Will

R. Jay Wallace, “Addiction as Defect of the Will” (1999)

9:1: Further Reflection on the Will’s Self Construction

Marina Oshana, “Autonomy and Self-Identity” (2005)