Phil 880

Each student will be responsible for 3 presentations (each worth 15%)

In the last two weeks, each student will present a draft of their paper (10%) and hand in a written draft (15%).

The finished paper will account for 25% of the grade.

September 16

Philipa Foot: "Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives", The Philosophical Review, Vol. 81, No. 3 (Jul., 1972), pp. 305-316 (Matthew)

Bernard Williams: "Internal and External Reasons" in Moral Luck, Cambridge, 1981, pp. 101-113 (Imran)

September 23

Strawson: Freedom and resentment, Proceedings of the British Academy, 1962, pp. 1-25 (Anthony)

Frankfurt: “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person”, Journal of Philosophy 68, 1971:5-20 (Sally)

September 30

Frankfurt “Alternate possibilities and Moral Responsibility”, Journal of Philosophy 66, 1969, pp. 829-39 (Gabriel) Pereboom: “Determinism al Dente”, Noûs 29, 1985, pp. 21-45 (Matthew)

October 7

Putnam, Hilary: “The nature of mental states.”nIn W.H. Capitan & D.D. Merrill (eds.), Art, Mind, and Religion. Pittsburgh, 1967, pp. 1--223 (Farshad)

Frank Jackson: “Phenomenal Qualia”, Philosophical Quarterly 32, 1982, pp. 127-136. (Gabriel)

October 14

Churchland: “Reduction, Qualia, and the Introspection of Brain States”, Journal of PhilosophyJournal of Philosophy 82 ,1985, pp. 8-28 (Sally)

Dennett: "Quining Qualia”, in A. Marcel and E. Bisiach, eds, Consciousness in Modern Science, Oxford University Press 1988. (Imran)

October 21

Carnap: “Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology”,Revue Internationale de Philosophie 4 (1950): 20-40. Reprinted in the Supplement to Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic, Chicago, 1956. (Gabriel)

Quine: "Two Dogmas of : Empiricism", The Philosophical Review, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Jan., 1951), pp. 20-43 (Anthony)

October 28

Boyd: “On the Current Status of the Issue of Scientific Realism, Erkenntnis 1983, pp. 45 - 90 (Sally)

Laudan: A confutation of Convergent Realism, Philosophy of Science 48, 1981, pp. 19-49 (Farshad)

November 4

Worrall: Structural Realism: The Best of Both Worlds?, Dialectica 43, 1989 (Imran)

Quine: “Natural Kinds”, In Carl G. Hempel, Donald Davidson & Nicholas Rescher (eds.), Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel. Dordrecht, 1970 (Matthew)

November 18

Putnam: "The meaning of 'meaning'”, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1975, pp.131-193 (Farshad)

Burge: "Other Bodies”, In Andrew Woodfield (ed.), Thought and Object. Oxford University Press, 1982 (Anthony)

November 25

Paper presentations

December 2

Paper presentations