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Introduction to Philosophy

PHIL 102. Fall 2016. City College. Elís Miller

August 29  

Introduction

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Kristie Dotson: How is this paper philosophy?

August 31

Indian Buddhist Philosophy:

The Questions of King Milinda (book 2, chapter 1, section 1)

Descartes: Meditation II

September 5

LABOR DAY: no classes

September 7

Kwame Gyekye: The Akan Concept of a Person

Podcast: African philosophy

http://philosophybites.com/2015/12/katrin-flikschuh-on-philosophy-in-africa.html

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Akan philosophy of the Person

September 12

Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit, master/slave dialectic (or lordship and bondage)

September 14

Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex: woman as Other

September 19

Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Second Analogy

George Dicker: Paul Guyer's Interpretation of Kant's Second Analogy

September 21

Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, phenomena & noumena

September 26

Ian Hacking: Social Construction of What?

Podcast: Jesse Prinz, Is everything socially constructed?

http://philosophybites.com/2015/09/jesse-prinz-on-is-everything-socially-constructed.html 

September 28

John Perry: A Dialogue of Personal Identity and Immortality

John Pollock: Brain in a vat

October 3

NO CLASSES

October 5

Frank Jackson: What Mary didn't know

Podcast:Frank Jackson, What Mary knew

http://philosophybites.com/2011/08/frank-jackson-on-what-mary-knew.html

October 6 (THURSDAY)

Jim Pryor: Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper

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Peter Horban: Writing a Philosophy Paper

October 10 & 12

NO CLASSES

October 17

Philosophical fallacies (no readings)

MIDTERM DUE

October 19

Logic homework

Homework Resources: video explaining inference rules, video explaining natural deduction problems 

 

October 24

Frank Jackson: Epiphenomenal Qualia

 

(continued from October 5) Frank Jackson: What Mary didn't know

Podcast:Frank Jackson, What Mary knew

http://philosophybites.com/2011/08/frank-jackson-on-what-mary-knew.html

 

October 26

Susanna Siegel: Rational Evaluability and Perceptual Farce 

(instructions: start with section 1 on pg. 3)

 

October 31

Angela Smith: Moral Blame and Moral Protest ( ONLY read sections 1, 2, 5, & 6)

November 2

Gary Watson: Responsibility and the Limits of Evil

November 7

Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations

(ONLY read #43, 48, 49, & 50)

November 9

Election Discussion

November 14

Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations (section #201)

November 16

Luvell Anderson and Ernie Lepore: what did you call me?

November 21

J.L. Austin: How to do things with words (ONLY Read Lecture I)

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Speech Acts

 

November 23

Rae Langton: Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts

November 28

Kate Manne & Jason Stanley: When free speech becomes a political weapon

November 30

Jason Stanley: How Propaganda Works excerpt from Ch.4

December 5 & 7

DEBATES

December 12

NO CLASS

Office hours for final paper help

December 19

FINAL PAPERS DUE

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