PHI 150-005 Schedule

Below is a tentative schedule for PHI 150 005 (MWF 11:00-11:50). I left plenty of room for discussion and other activities. This schedule is tentative; as plans change, I'll inform you in class and on the class web site. The readings, with the study questions for the response papers, can be found on the designated pages (see the sidebar). You should have completed the assigned reading on the day we are scheduled to discuss it. The response papers are due on that day in class. I will not accept late papers.

Part 1. Nature v. Nurture

Readings and study questions for Part 1 can be found here.

Week 1
T 01.12 Introduction to the course
R 01.14 Discuss E. O. Wilson selection from On Human Nature
Week 2
T 01.19 Rose, et al selection from Not in Our Genes
R 01.21 Discuss Michael Ruse's selection on Social Darwinism
Week 3
T 01.26 Discuss Plato's Meno
R 01.28 Discuss Locke selection on Innate Ideas
Week 4
T 02.02 Discuss Pinker article on Human Nature
R 02.04 Discuss Franz de Waal's article "The End of Nature Versus Nurture"

Part 2. Descartes, Mind, Knowledge

Readings and study questions for Part 2 can be found here.

Week 5
T 02.09 First Exam
R 02.11 Discuss The Prestige
Week 6
T 02.16 Discuss Descartes Meditation I
R 02.18 Discuss Meditation II
Week 7
T 02.23 Discuss Meditation III & IV
R 02.25 Discuss Meditation V-VI Epistemology
Week 8
T 03.02 Discuss Meditation VI Dualism
R 03.04 Fodor on Behaviorism & Identity Theory
Spring Break
T 03.09 NO CLASS
R 03.11 NO CLASS
Week 9
T 03.16
R 03.18 Behaviorism and the Identity Theory

NOTE THE CHANGES TO THE SCHEDULE BELOW

Week 10
T 03.23 Fodor on Functionalism/the Computational Theory of Mind
R 03.25 Discuss John Searle's article "Can Computers Think?"; Challenges for Materialism
Week 11
T 03.30 Second Exam

Part 3. Self, Freedom, Morality

Readings and study questions for Part 3 can be found here.

R 04.01 Discuss Parfit on Divided Minds
Week 12
T 04.06
R 04.08 Cover/Garns on the Dilemma of Free Will; Incompatibilism
Week 13
T 04.13 Discuss Cover/Garns on Compatibilism; Discuss Dennett on Pulling Our Own Strings
R 04.15 Discuss Crimes and Misdemeanors
Week 14
T 04.20 Discuss Plato's Euthyphro
R 04.22 Discuss Sartre's Existentialism as Humanism
Week 15
T 04.27 Discuss Ruse on The Significance of Evolution
R 04.29 More on Meta-ethics
Final Exam
R 05.06 Third Exam 10:10 - 12:10
092/scheduleh.txt · Last modified: 2010/03/18 19:45 by garns
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