General information

• Study points: 5.00
• Language: English
• Category: Lectures
• Duration: 39.0 hours 
• Periodicity: Taught this academic year in the first semester
• POC: POC Philosophy (internationaal)

Taught by

Kelp Christoph

Content

This course is a topics-based introduction to contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. We will be looking at a variety of different topics that have been at the forefront of research in Anglo-American philosophy including epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, philosophy of religion, freedom of the will, personal identity, philosophy of art, philosophy of language, truth, and analytic/continental philosophy divide. 
 
Provisional syllabus:
1. Introduction 
2. Epistemology 

• Dretske 1970. Epistemic Operators. Journal of Philosophy 67: 1007-23.
  
• Background: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) entry 'Skepticism'
  3. Philosophy of Mind
  
  
• Nagel, T. 1974. What It's Like to Be a Bat. The Philosophical Review 83: 435-56.
  
• Background: IEP entry 'Consciousness'
  4. Ethics
  
  
• Thomson, J. 1985. The Trolley Problem. The Yale Law Journal 94: 1395-1415.
  
• Background: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)  entry 'Deontological Ethics'
  5. Philosophy of Religion
  
  
• Dennett, D. 2007 Atheism and Evolution. Martin, M. ed. Cambridge Companion to Atheism, ch. 8.
  
• Background: IEP entry 'Atheism'
  6. Freedom of the Will
  
  
• Frankfurt, H. 1969. Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility. Journal of Philosophy 66: 829-39.
  
• Background: Kane, R. 2005 A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will ch. 2,3,8. 
  7. Personal Identity
  
  
• Williams, B. 1970. The Self and the Future. The Philosophical Review 79:161-80.
  
• Background: SEP and IEP entries 'Personal Identity'
  8. Philosophy of Art 
  
  
• Dickie, G. 1969. Defining Art. American Philosophical Quarterly 6: 253-5.
  
• Danto, A. 1964. The Artworld. Journal of Philosophy 61: 571-84.
  
• Background: SEP entry 'Definitions of Art'
  9. Philosophy of Language  
  
  
• Putnam, H. 1973. Meaning and Reference. Journal of Philosophy 70: 699-711.
  
• Background: SEP entry 'Reference'
  10. Truth 
  
  
• Tarski, A. 1944. The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 4: 341-76.
  
• Background: SEP entry 'Truth'
  11. What is analytic philosophy?
  
  
• Glock 2007 Could there be something wrong with analytic philosophy? Grazer Philosophische Studien 74: 215-37.
  
• Critchley, S. 2001. Continental Philosophy. A Very Short Introduction. ch. 3.
  12. Conclusions
  The IEP can be found online at http://www.iep.utm.edu and the SEP at http://plato.stanford.edu

Evaluation description

Examination type:
    written
When?: final examination during examination period