PHIL 2200 Graduate Pro-seminar Schedule

Philosophy of Physics, Science, and Metaphysics at Brown University

PHIL 2200 Graduate Pro-seminar

Schedule with Links to Papers

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Sept 7	Discussion of Goals and Activities
	George Santayana, Reason in Religion, Chapters 1-4.	DK
Sept 14	G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica, sections 1-15. (20 pp.; 15017 words)	TW
	Arthur Prior, "The Autonomy of Ethics" (8 pp.; 3438 words)	MH
Sept 21	Derek Parfit, "Personal Identity" (25 pp.; 7876 words)	SE
	Bernard Williams, "Persons, Character, and Morality," in Moral Luck (1981). (7588 words)	AM
Sept 28	Philippa Foot, "Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives," Philosophical Review 81 (3) (July 1972), 305-316. (11 pp.; 4340 words)	BT
	R. G. Collingwood, "Art and Craft" in The Principles of Art. (32 pp.; 9835 words)	MH
Oct 5	R. G. Collingwood, "Art and Representation" in The Principles of Art. (32 pp.; 5217 words)	AM
	Arthur Danto, "The Artworld" (14 pp.; 6235 words)	TW
Oct 12	John Rawls, "The Sense of Justice," Philosophical Review 72 (1963), 281-305. (25 pp.; 8837 words)	SE
	G. A. Cohen, "Where the Action Is: On the Site of Distributive Justice" (28 pp.; 9505 words)	BT
Oct 19	Review the basics of the Sense-Datum Theory
	J. L. Austin, Sense and Sensibilia, Chapters 1,2,3,5,6 (13026 words)	AM
	J. L. Austin, Sense and Sensibilia, Chapters 8,9,10 (14562 words)	MH
Oct 26	A. J. Ayer, "Has Austin Refuted the Sense-Datum Theory?" (24 pp.; 10945 words)	SE
	Christopher Peacocke, "Colour Concepts and Colour Experience." (17 pp.; 6630 words)	TW
Nov 2	Wilfrid Sellars, "Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man" (Sections 1-3, 8461 words total)	AM
	Wilfrid Sellars, "Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man" (Sections 4-7, 10068 words)	BT
Nov 9	Gilbert Ryle, "Descartes' Myth" (5299 words)	SE
	Gilbert Ryle, "The Will," in The Concept of Mind. (8575 words) (34 pp. total)	MH
	Davidson, "Mental Events" in Experience and Theory, Foster and Swanson, eds. (1970). (20 pp.; 7245 words)	TW
Nov 16	Goldman, "Internalism Exposed" The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 96, No. 6 (Jun., 1999) (23 pp.; 9905 words)	BT
	Feldman and Conee, "Internalism Defended" American Philosophical Quarterly Volume 38, Number 1, January 2001. (18 pp.; 10367 words)	AM
Nov 23	Michael Dummett, "Bringing About the Past," Philosophical Review 73 (3) (July 1964), pp. 338-359. (22 pp.; 9262 words)	TW
	J.L. Mackie, "The Direction of Causation" (33 pp.; 13728 words)	SE
Nov 30	John Perry, "The Problem of the Essential Indexical" Noûs 13 (1) (March 1979), pp. 3-21. (19 pp.; 7729 words)	BT
	D.C. Williams, "Universals and Existents" (14 pp.; 7588 words)	MH

Other Versions of This Course

Richard Heck: Fall 2006

General Advice

Getting Things Done

Related Papers

JJC Smart, "Prior and the Basis of Ethics"

Discussion of G. E. Moore in the beginning of Moral Non-Naturalism.

Wilfrid Sellars, "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind"