PHIL 3388
History of 20th Century Philosophy REVISED
Instructor:
Jim Garson x33205 Office Hours: 11:00-12:00 MWF
E-mail: jgarson@uh.edu
Office: 502 AH
Book:
Twentieth-Century Philosophy F. Baird and W. Kaufmann, 3rd Edition
(The second
edition will do but it has different page #s.)
Class Schedule
Jan. 19, 21
The
20th Century: The Big Picture
Jan. 24, 26, 28
Russell "Problems of
Philosophy" 53-66
Jan. 31, Feb. 2, 4, 7, 9
Wittgenstein "Tractatus" 141-149 + handout.
Feb. 14 FIRST PAPER DUE
Feb. 11, 14, 16, 18, 21
Ayer
"Language Truth and Logic" 166-177
Feb 25 Review
Feb. 28 EXAM #1
Mar. 2, 4, 7, 9
Husserl "Phenomenology" 1-12 "The Crisis..." 12-21
Mar. 11, 21, 23, 25, 28
Heidegger "An Introduction to
Metaphysics" 102-127
Mar. 21 SECOND PAPER DUE
Mar. 28, 30
Sartre "Existentialism is a
Humanism" 206-210;
225-238
Apr. 1 Review
Apr. 4 EXAM
#2
Apr. 6, 8, 11, 13
Wittgenstein
"Investigations" 149-165
Apr. 15, 18, 20, 22
Quine
"Two Dogmas of Empiricism" 254-271
Apr. 18 THIRD PAPER DUE
Apr. 25, 27, 29, May 2
Rorty "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" 367-380
May 3 Review
(This class meets on Tuesday and replaces the day lost to ice.)
May 11 Final 11:00-2:00 in this classroom
Some
variations in this schedule may be announced in class.
Three short
(300 words max.) papers
with announced topics will be due on
Feb 14, Mar. 21 and Apr. 18
Grading:
Papers 15% each; Exams 15% each; Final 20%;
Attendance/participation 5%
Students who are
interested in substituting one or more of these papers or exams
with
a more ambitious project are welcome to make arrangements with me.
Secondary Sources for
History of 20th Century Philosophy
J. Urmson, Philosophical Analysis
A. Janik and S. Toulmin, Wittgenstein's
Vienna
Monk, R. Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Duty of
Genius
G. E. M. Anscombe, An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus
A. Kenny, Wittgenstein
J. Kocklemans, A First Introduction to Husserl's
Phenomenology
J. Kockelmans, Martin
Heidegger: a First Introduction to His Philosophy,
T. Langan, The Meaning of Heidegger
W. T. Jones, The
Twentieth Century to Wittgenstein and Sartre