Syllabi for past courses (6 week terms)

Sample syllabi (15 week semesters)

An Invitation to Philosophy of Mind (Summer 2017)

An intro level, gen. ed. course that invites students to reflect on the nature of the self, the mind-body problem, and the places of mental representation and consciousness in nature. Coursework consists primarily in frequent short writing assignments.
Intro Phil Mind Syllabus
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The Phenomenological Tradition: "To the things themselves!" (Summer 2016)

An upper-division survey of the role of intentionality and intuitive knowledge in the 20th century phenomenological investigations of logic, the mind, gender, and race. Special focus on Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, de Beauvoir, and Fanon.
Phenomenology Syllabus
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Philosophy of Psychology: The Science of the Mind (Summer 2015)

An upper-division examination of the methods and commitments of contemporary psychology, with a special focus on learning how to read scientific work and connect it to philosophical questions. The course centers on perceptual psychology and the differences between sensation, perception, and conceptual thought.
Phil Psych Syllabus
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Philosophy of Language (Summer 2013)

An upper-division examination of theories of meaning and reference in language. 
Phil Lang Syllabus
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Introduction to Philosophy: Goodness, Truth, Beauty, Self

An intro level, gen. ed. course covering connected questions of ethics, semantics, aesthetics, and mind, with a focus on the personal and social significance of these questions. Coursework consists primarily in frequent short writing assignments
Intro Phil Syllabus
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Intuition and Insight: Seeing How Things Are

An upper-division or graduate course, at the intersection of epistemology and philosophy of mind. What is the nature and warrant of intuition (or insight), where one "sees" how things are.  Different accounts will emerge as we look at putative examples of intuitive knowledge in perception, mathematics, language, morality, philosophy, and theology.
Epistemology Syllabus
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Philosophy of Psychology: The Nature of the Mind

An upper-division or graduate course on the methods and commitments of contemporary psychology, with a special focus on learning how to read scientific work and connect it to philosophical questions. The course centers on the differences between sensation, perception, and conceptual thought, and related issues of the nature of mental representation and mental causation.
Phil Psych Syllabus (Semester Length)
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