Term:  

Fall Quarter

Dept Course No and Title Instructor
PHILOS (F18)215  WITTGENSTEIN IMADDY, P.
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PHILOS (F18)232  TOPICS POL&SOC PHILJAMES, A.
On Self and Other: in Phenomenology and Ethics:
This seminar considers a set of interrelated philosophical questions about speech and its linguistic, epistemic, ethical, and political dimensions.  Topics include speech act theory (Austin, Searle, Stalnaker, Lewis, Kaplan); slurs and pejoratives (Camp, Jeshion, Langton, Maitra); silencing, ancient and modern (Beard); gaslighting, mansplaining, misogyny, epistemic injustice (Fricker, Goldberg, Manne); bullshitting, lying, propaganda (Frankfurt, Stanley, Shiffrin); free speech and the speech commons (Shiffrin); pubic reason and prospects for democracy (Rawls, Habermas).  Our discussion will be in the service of a book in progress called Loudmouthed Women, co-authored with classicist Cristiana Sogno).
PHILOS (F18)244  SOCIAL DYNAMICSNARENS, L.
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PHILOS (F18)205A  SET THEORYSTAFF
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PHILOS (F18)206  PROOF THEORYWALSH, S.
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PHILOS (F18)230  ON SELF AND OTHER: IN PHENOMENOLOGY & ETHICSHELMREICH, J.
Professors Jeff Helmreich and David Smith.

We shall study ways in which our sense of self and other is manifest in everyday experience (phenomenology) and in our constitution of values (ethics).

We’ll draw on texts from Edmund Husserl (founder of phenomenology) and Emanuel Levinas (founder of a phenomenological meta-ethics). We’ll also draw on Edith Stein on empathy. And we’ll work with contemporary work on these authors and problems.

For Husserl, “we” constitute values intersubjectively in the interplay between “I” and “you” (“an other I”). For Levinas, the “face of the other” is fundamental to our consciousness and to our sense of moral worth (moving from “other” to “me”). Where Husserl takes phenomenology to be First Philosophy (rather than metaphysics or epistemology or logic), Levinas takes ethics to be First Philosophy, founded on our sense of the other.
PHILOS (F18)206  MODAL LOGICWALSH, S.
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PHILOS (F18)201  FIRST YEAR SEMINARPRITCHARD, D.
This is a research training course geared specifically for first-year graduate students and taught by the Director of Graduate Studies. The specific content covered will be tailored to the research interests of the students enrolled on the course. The goal of the course is to provide a solid foundation for a successful Ph.D.