same intro course i've done a few times now, plato / descartes / nietzsche / wittgenstein. i once threw in aristotle, then switched to sextus empiricus (the pyrrhonian skeptic), but i think in the spring term i might try montaigne in that slot. (similar ideas, but students find sextus very hard to read.)

normally i assign substantial, and frequent, reading-question assignments. right now i'm in an abbreviated term so i've cut out a lot of the submitted work—we'll see if they still work through reading questions i don't ask them to submit (and thus, read the texts they might not have to cover for the purposes of homework grades). but my classroom style tends to encourage and reward familiarity with the reading anyway.

is that the metro state where timothy gould is? he might be a good person for you to get to know - he's got an interesting book on 'voice' and method in cavell.

i'm starting a philosophy of art course in february—going to make it mainly music, trying to improvise the content rather than assigning texts. i think i'll be in touch soon about it—sure to be something of interest to you there.