This is the first class of a new course called "Imagining Money." You can find a draft syllabus -- an aspirational one, since we'll never get through it all -- here. There are handouts for the first three days: the short passage from Beckett we discuss first, a miscellany of poems and riddles about money, and a selection of passages from Milton, Ovid, and Ambrose Bierce. The syllabus gives you the lines to read from Milton's Paradise Lost, viz. Book 1, ll. 674-751, and Book 8, ll. 1-178. And here is the Kawabata story.
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Shelley and Byron on Byron
Later Romantics 2: Wordsworth and Milton
1. The Later Romantics: Introduction on Shelley and Wordsworth
Infinity 24: Last class: review and final explication of Zeno
Diagon Alley
Infinity 22: Newcomb's problem; Shelley
Infinity 21: Klee, Kant, Shelley
Infinity 20: Kant on Perception and Free Will
Infinity 19: Hume on induction, Kant on space and time, especially space
Infinity 18: Descartes, Gibson, Turing Tests
Infinity 17: Etherization
Infinity 16: Making Prisoner's Dilemma Vivid
Infinity 15: Pascal
Infinity 14: Polls and other minds
Infinity 13: Elementary probability and the philosophy of probablity
Pascal, the anthropic principle, what counts in philosophy
Infinity 11: by addition, by division, one-to-one correspondence, Macbeth, and time
Infinity 10: Augustine on time and language
Infinity 9: Something of a change of pace
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