PHIL 406/606 – Spring 2009
List of Presentations and Presenters:
Week / Readings / Student Presenter / Grade (Remarks)1. Jan. 13, 15 / MC, chapter 1
Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (Phil Am.)
2. Jan. 20, 22 / MC, chapter 2
Other readings by Edwards,
Franklin, and Paine
3. Jan 27, 29 / MC, chapter 3
Readings by Emerson
Readings by Thoreau
4. Feb. 3, 5 / MC. chapter 4
Readings by Wright.
Readings by Holmes
5. Feb. 10, 12 / MC, chapter 5
“The Fixation of Belief”
“How to Make our Ideas Clear”
“A Guess at the Riddle”
“Evolutionary Love”
6. Feb. 17, 19 / MC, chapter 6
“Habit” (Prag)
“Consciousness”
“The Dilemma of Determinism” (Phil. Am.)
“The Will to Believe”
What Makes a Life Significant” (Phil Am, Ch. 11)
7. Feb. 24, 26 / MC, chapter 7
Pierce: “A Definition of Pragmatism” (Prag)
“What Pragmatism Is” (Phil. AM.)
James: “What Pragmatism Means”
“Pragmatism’s Conception of Truth”
“from A Pluralistic Universe” (all in Prag)
8. Mar. 3, 5 / MC, chapter 8
Dewey, “The Ethics of Democracy”
- “Theories of Knowledge”
- “The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy”
- “The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy”
- “Nature, Life and Body-Mind”
- “Search for the Great Community”
9. Mar. 10, 12 / MC, chapter 9
Dewey, “Experience, Nature, and Art”
- “I Believe”
- “Escape From Peril” (from The Quest for Certainty)
10. Mar. 17, 19 / MC, chapter 10
Readings by Royce
Readings by Santayana
11. Mar. 24, 26 / MC, chapter 11
Readings by Addams and Mead in Prag.
Lewis’ “A Pragmatic Conception of the Apriori”
12. Mar 31,
Apr. 2 / MC, chapter 12
Quine, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”
Putnam, “Fact and Value”
Rorty, “The World Well Lost”
APRIL / SPRING BREAK
13. Apr. 14, 16 / MC, chapter 13
Rorty, “Nineteenth Century Idealism and Twentieth Century Textualism”
- “Philosophy as a Kind of Writing: An Essay on Derrida”
- “Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism”
- [Laramie Lecture]
Brandom, [Menand Discussion]
14. Apr. 21, 23 / MC, chapter 14
Readings by Bernstein,West, and Posner in Prag
15. Apr 28, 30 / MC, chapter 15
Remaining Readings in Prag