Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 102. Spring 2017. City College. Elís Miller
January 31
Introduction
What is philosophy?
NO READING ASSIGNED
February 2
Kristie Dotson: How is this paper philosophy? (ONLY read sections 1, 2, 3 & 5)
Bertrand Russell: The Value of Philosophy
February 7
Indian Buddhist Philosophy:
The Questions of King Milinda (book 2, chapter 1, section 1)
Descartes: Meditation II
February 9
Kwame Gyekye: The Akan Concept of a Person
Podcast: African philosophy
http://philosophybites.com/2015/12/katrin-flikschuh-on-philosophy-in-africa.html
optional
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Akan philosophy of the Person
February 16
John Perry: A Dialogue of Personal Identity and Immortality
February 21
John Perry: A Dialogue of Personal Identity and Immortality (CONT'D)
February 23
Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit, master/slave dialectic (or lordship and bondage)
February 28
Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex: woman as Other
Podcast: What is a Woman? http://philosophybites.com/2017/01/amia-srinivasan-on-what-is-a-woman.html
March 2
PAPER WRITING WORKSHOP
come to class with paper#1 and paper #2 topic
Jim Pryor: Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper
optional
Peter Horban: Writing a Philosophy Paper
March 7
PAPER #2 DUE: ~500 words
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
March 9
Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Second Analogy
George Dicker: Paul Guyer's Interpretation of Kant's Second Analogy
March 14
Snow Day
March 16
Frank Jackson: What Mary didn't know
Frank Jackson: Epiphenomenal Qualia
Podcast:Frank Jackson, What Mary knew
http://philosophybites.com/2011/08/frank-jackson-on-what-mary-knew.html
March 21
No Class
March 23
John Searle: Minds, Brains, and Programs
March 28
Tamar Gendler: Alief and Belief (ONLY p.1-12)
TAKE AN IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST HERE: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
March 30
Susanna Siegel:
Rational Evaluability and Perceptual Farce
(instructions: start with section 1 on pg. 3, then read to the top of pg. 8)
April 4
Angela Smith: Moral Blame and Moral Protest ( ONLY read sections 1, 2, 5, & 6)
April 6
Jennifer Morton: Reasoning under Scarcity (ONLY read pp.1-4)
April 25
Philosophical fallacies (no reading)
April 27
Homework Resources:
2) video explaining inference rules,
3) video explaining natural deduction problems
May 2
Logic homework (EC) due
J.L. Austin: How to do things with words (ONLY Read Lecture I)
Rae Langton: Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts
optional
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Speech Acts
May 4
Luvell Anderson and Ernie Lepore: what did you call me?
May 9
Jason Stanley: How Propaganda Works excerpt from Ch.4
May 11
Kate Manne & Jason Stanley: When free speech becomes a political weapon
May 16 & 18
DEBATES
May 19
Final Paper Writing Workshop
May 29
FINAL PAPERS DUE