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