August 29  

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Introduction

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Kristie Dotson: How is this paper philosophy?

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August 31

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Indian Buddhist Philosophy:

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

Descartes: Meditation II

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September 5

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LABOR DAY: no classes

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September 7

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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

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September 12

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

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September 14

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Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex: woman as Other

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September 19

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Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Second Analogy

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

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September 21

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Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, phenomena & noumena

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September 26

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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 

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September 28

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John Perry: A Dialogue of Personal Identity and Immortality

John Pollock: Brain in a vat

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October 3

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NO CLASSES

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October 5

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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

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October 6 (THURSDAY)

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Jim Pryor: Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper

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optional

Peter Horban: Writing a Philosophy Paper

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October 10 & 12

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NO CLASSES

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October 17

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Philosophical fallacies (no readings)

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MIDTERM DUE

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October 19

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Logic homework

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

 

October 24

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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

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Susanna Siegel: Rational Evaluability and Perceptual Farce 

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

 

October 31

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

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November 2

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Gary Watson: Responsibility and the Limits of Evil

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November 7

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Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations

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

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November 9

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Election Discussion

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November 14

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Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations (section #201)

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November 16

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

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November 21

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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

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Rae Langton: Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts

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November 28

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

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November 30

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Jason Stanley: How Propaganda Works excerpt from Ch.4

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December 5 & 7

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DEBATES

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December 12

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NO CLASS

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Office hours for final paper help

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December 19

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FINAL PAPERS DUE

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