Readings for student projects:

Reading for Jacob Rump (Mon, 17 Jan 05)

Richard Rorty, "Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the Reification of Language," in The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, Charles Guignon (ed.) (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993), pp. 337-357. On reserve in Lilly.

Reading for David Predina (Fri, 21 Jan 05)

Paul A. Boghossian and J. David Velleman, "Colour as a Secondary Quality," Mind, n.s. vol. 98 (1989), pp. 81-103. On JSTOR.

Reading for Morgan Patchell (Mon, 24 Jan 05)

Sonia Kruks, "Simone de Beauvoir: Teaching Sartre About Freedom" in Margaret A. Simons (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (Penn State Univ Press, 1995), pp. 79-95. On reserve in Lilly.

Reading for Parker Sawyers (Mon, 31 Jan 05)

Dominic Scott, "Platonic Anamnesis Revisited,"The Classical Quarterly, n.s. vol. 37 (1987), pp. 346-366. On JSTOR.

Reading for Charlie Lopez (Thurs, 3 Feb 05)

Ian Hacking, "Why Ask What?," ch. 1 of The Social Construction of What?, (Harvard Univ. Press, 1999), pp. 1-34. On reserve in Lilly.

Reading for Ryan Yates (Mon, 7 Feb 05)

John Llewelyn, "Am I Obsessed by Bobby? (Humanism of the Other Animal)" in Re-Reading Levinas, Robert Bernasconi and Simon Critchley, eds. (Bloomington, Ind: Indiana University Press, 1991), pp.234-245; and excerpts from "The Paradox of Morality: an Interview with Emmanuel Levinas" in The Provocation of Levinas: Rethinking the Other, Robert Bernasconi and David Wood, eds. (New York: Routledge, 1988), pp.172-173. On reserve in Lilly.

Reading for Alpha Newberry (Fri, 11 Feb 05)

Calvin O. Schrag, "The Structure of Moral Experience: A Phenomenological and Existential Analysis," Ethics, vol. 73 (1963), pp. 255-265. On JSTOR

Reading for Jon Hensley (Mon, 21 Feb 05)

Piotr Hoffman, "Death, time, history: Division II of Being and Time," in The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, Charles B. Guignon, ed. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993), pp. 195-214. On reserve in Lilly.

Instructor's choice readings:

Reading for Mon, 28 Feb 05

Julia Annas, "Being Virtuous and Doing the Right Thing," in Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, vol. 78 (2004), pp. 61-75. On reserve in Lilly.

Reading for Mon, 14 Mar 05

Alexander Nehamas, "Art, Interpretation, and the Rest of Life," in Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, vol. 78 (2004), pp. 25-42. On reserve in Lilly.

Student papers:

Jacob Rump (Mon, 28 Mar 05) in pdf format

"World, Language, and Intelligibility: the Social Context in Wittgenstein and Heidegger"

David Predina (Fri, 1 Apr 05) in pdf format

"A Pyroclasm of Color Has Meaning"

Morgan Patchell (Mon, 4 Apr 05) in pdf format

"On Freedom"

Parker Sawyers (Fri, 8 Apr 05) in pdf format

"Genius and the Theory of Recollection"

Charlie Lopez (Mon, 11 Apr 05) in pdf format

"On Hacking and Social Construction Arguments"

Ryan Yates (Thurs, 14 Apr 05) in pdf format

"Creating Ethical Space for the Non-Human Animal Other"

Al Newberry (Mon, 18 Apr 05) in pdf format

"Phenomenology of Religion: Content and Consequence"

Jon Hensley (Fri, 22 Apr 05) in pdf format

"Man’s Finitude as an Essential Factor in his Freedom: Examining anxiety, death, and freedom in Heidegger’s Being and Time"