MY COURSES, SPRING 2009
History of Analytic Philosophy
PHIL 333
M/W/F 12:30-1:20 PM, Knapp 202
First Year Seminar: Paradoxes
FYS 102
T/Th 1:30-2:50 PM, Knapp 208
Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant
PHIL 232
M/W/F 2:30-3:50 PM, Knapp 202
History of Analytic Philosophy
Syllabus
Readings
G. E. Moore, "The Nature of Judgment"
Bertrand Russell, "On Denoting"
Raphael Demos, "A Discussion of a Certain Type of Negative Proposition"
Wilfrid Sellars, "Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man"
Wilfrid Sellars, "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind"
Stevenson, "The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms"
Assignments
Final Response and Seminar Paper Guidelines
Handouts
Frege, "Concept and Object" exercise
Links
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Paradoxes
Syllabus
Readings
Doris Olin, "The Nature of Paradox"
Max Black, "Achilles and the Tortiose"
J. F. Thompson, "Tasks and Supertaks"
selection from Gribbin, In Search of Schrodinger's Cat
Robert Nozick, "Reflections on Newcombe's Problem"
Thomas Nagel, "Moral Luck" (selection)
Nelson Goodman, "The New Riddle of Induction"
A. J. Ayer, "On A Supposed Antinomy"
D. C. Makinson, "The Paradox of the Preface"
Robert Hoffman, "Mr. Makinson's Paradox"
Jorge Luis Borges, "The Library of Babel"
Lewis Carroll, "What Achilles said to the Tortoise"
Augustine, selection from "The Confessions" (on Time)Kant, selection from "The Critque of Pure Reason" (The Antinomies)
Assignments
Response Paper Guidelines and Suggestions
Paper I: Paradoxes of Physics and Metaphysics
Paper III: Paradoxes of Logic and Belief
Handouts
Editing Marks and Abbreviations
Links
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Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant
Syllabus
Readings
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Assignments
Paper I: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz
Handouts
Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics
Links