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Winter 2002
This information effective for Winter 2002.
Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
Winter 2002
Instructor: Jocelyn Hoy
MWF 11:00–12:10 p.m.
Oakes 105
(TAs: Caren Camblin, Krista Lynes, Alexis Shotwell, Bryan Telegin)
Section 01A: Wednesday 12:30–1:40 p.m. Oakes 103
Section 01B: Friday 8:00–9:10 a.m. Kresge 325
Section 01C: Tuesday 6:00–7:10 p.m. Social Sciences 2 165
Section 01D: Monday 5:00–6:10 p.m. Kresge 194
Section 01E: Monday 7:00–8:10pm Crown 203
Section 01F: Thursday 8:30–9:40am Cowell 223
Section 01G: Wednesday 7:00–8:10pm Social Sciences 2 165
Section 01H: Thursday 12:00–1:10 p.m. Merrill 132
This course is intended to be a student’s first exploration of philosophy.
We will take a basically historical approach, reading and discussing major texts
from the history of philosophy, as well as some contemporary critiques of these
classics. Readings will include works by Plato, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche
and Sartre. We will
focus on questions about the nature of the self, self-understanding, and social
and moral relations.
Course Requirements:
Regular attendance at lectures and sections. Active participation in section
discussion. Written work will consist of three short papers and a final exam.
Required texts will be available at Bay Tree Bookstore.
Winter 2002
Instructor: John Doris
MW 5:00–6:45 p.m.
Stevenson 150
Section 01A: Monday 7:00–8:10 p.m. Stevenson 151
Section 01B: Monday 12:30–1:40 p.m. Thimann Lab 101
Section 01C: Thursday 6:00–7:10 p.m. Stevenson 151
Section 01D: Wednesday 7:00–8:10 p.m. Stevenson 151
Section 01E: Wednesday 11:00–12:10 p.m. Baskin Engineering 165
Section 01F: Tuesday 8:30–9:40 a.m. Crown 203
Section 01G: Monday 9:30–10:40 a.m. Merrill 132
Section 01H: Tuesday 2:00–3:10 p.m. Oakes 102
This course will survey foundational issues in ethics and ethical theory: Have we reason to favor moral considerations over considerations of self interest? How may moral claims be justified, if at all? After developing some of these issues in the company of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Mill, we will attempt to “apply” some of what we have learned to contemporary moral controversies.
Winter 2002
Instructor: Robert Goff
MWF 2:00–3:10 p.m.
Cowell 131
(TA: Tim Wong)
Section 01A: Monday 11:00–12:10 p.m. Baskin Engineering 165
Section 01B: Wednesday 5:00–6:10 p.m. Stevenson 151
This is an introduction to Philosophy by means of continental European sources.
There are no formal prerequisites. Course lectures and discussions will address
ideas about the self as creator, as knower and as moral agent, about textual
meaning and interpretation, about epochal circumstances such as the Holocaust
and globalized
technology.
The readings for the course may include works by: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, DeBeauvoir, Gadamer, Foucault, Levinas, Blanchot, Irigaray. These readings are accessible to a student with no previous philosophy, but as with any primary texts in the subject, they will present some discomforting challenge.
Course Requirements:
Attendance at all sessions, and participation in the student’s assigned
discussion section. Three papers, about 1200 words each. Two exams, midterm
and final, covering texts and class presentations. Some text materials will
be available at the Literary Guillotine, 204 Locust Street, Santa Cruz, and
others at the UCSC Campus Copy Center, Communications Building.
Questions may be addressed to the instructor Robert Goff, at 181 Cowell, telephone 831 459-2264, 459-2609 (messages); e-mail robtg@cats.ucsc.edu.
Winter 2002
Instructors: Ellen Suckiel and David Deamer
TTH 4:00–5:45 p.m.
Classroom Unit 1
The purpose of this course is to present and analyze ethical and social issues
related to recent advances in scientific research and biotechnology. The following
guest speakers will be featured:
Winter 2002
Instructor: Daniel Guevara
MWF 2:00–3:10 p.m.
Kresge 321
(TA: Peter Murray)
Section 01A: Monday 5:00–6:10 p.m. Cowell 131
Section 01B: Wednesday 8:00–9:10 a.m. Social Sciences 2 179
A critical study, based on original texts, of Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza
on the nature of knowledge, the mind, and morality, among other things.
Winter 2002
Instructor: Daniel Guevara
MW 5:00–6:45 p.m.
Merrill 132
An introduction to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. There will be an emphasis
on the metaphysics and epistemology. Some moral theory as time permits.
These are some main topics (however, this is subject to change): The Ideality of Space and Time, The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction, Synthetic A Priori Knowledge, Transcendental Idealism, Concepts and Intuitions, The Transcendental Deduction of the Categories of the Understanding, The Refutation of Idealism, Causation, Determinism, Free Will, The Antinomies.
Recommended readings will be on reserve at McHenry Library, or in a reader compiled by the instructor.
Course Requirements:
Regular class attendance and participation; mid-term examination, final examination
(both take-home). Very brief weekly assignments on the readings.
Prerequisites: one course in the history of philosophy, especially the Rationalists or the Empiricists.
Winter 2002
Instructor: Richard Otte
TTH 2:00–3:45 p.m.
Merrill 132
In this course we will focus on meta-theoretic results of first order logic.
We will begin by presenting the semantics of first order logic more formally
than was done in Philosophy 9. After gaining a fuller understanding of the foundations
of first order logic, we will prove several meta-theoretic results, focusing
on the soundness and
completeness of first order logic. If time permits, we will then look at issues
involving computability and modal logic.
Evaluations will be based on several exams.
The text for the course is Computability and Logic, by Boolos and Jeffrey, although much of the information discussed in class will be given in lecture and is not in the text.
Students are expected to have successfully completed the equivalent of Philosophy 9, Introduction to Logic, as it is taught at UCSC. If students have any question about whether their background in logic is sufficient for this course, they should speak to the instructor.
Winter 2002
Instructor: Alva Noe
TTH 12:00–1:45 p.m.
Cowell 131
(TA: Sean Oliveira)
Section 01A: Wednesday 8:00–9:10 a.m. Cowell 216
Section 01B: Thursday 2:00–3:10 p.m. Kresge 319
An examination of philosophical and empirical theories of the mind. What is the mind? Can it be studied scientifically? The relation of mind to brain, body, and behavior; language and thought; animal and machine minds; intentionality; rationality, consciousness; cognitive science.
Prerequisite: one course in philosophy.
Winter 2002
Instructor: Robert Goff
MWF 9:30–10:40 a.m.
Oakes 102
This course covers two areas:
First, philosophical and other theories about religious belief and practice—in
what ways can religious statements and activities be shown true/meaningful/functional,
or otherwise? Must religious beliefs be shared in order to be understood and
appreciated? Can they be usefully compared? Are some few experiences uniquely
religious, or can religiosity be ascribed to virtually any experience? Is religious
practice subject to independent moral standards?
Second, religious philosophy and anti-religious philosophy, i.e., philosophy as a means of religious articulation, and philosophy undertaken in denial of religion. Sources may include: Augustine, Anselm, Descartes, Pascal, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Ayer, Levinas.
Discussion will be part of every class session.
Two papers, the second (and longer) based upon outside reading.
Two exams.
General Prerequisites: open to non-philosophy majors, but class members should have done some previous work in philosophy. No first-year students.
Winter 2002
Instructor: Julie Tannenbaum
In this course we will focus on the nature and necessity of moral motivation
for successful moral action. Special attention will be given to Kantian inspired
accounts of moral motivation, which focus on the motive of duty, and Aristotelian
inspired accounts of moral motivation, which focus on emotional motives, such
as sympathy and love.
Supplemental Information
The seminar will focus on four related questions. Are moral motives necessary for successful moral action? What is involved in acting from duty and is it always an appropriate moral motive? Are emotional motives, such as love and sympathy, appropriate moral motives? Are successful moral action done solely from a moral motive?
Week one: a background lecture on two major views of action and motivation
Week two: what is Kant’s argument for the claim that we must act
from the motive of duty?
Reading: Immanuel Kant—Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals,
section 1
Week three: what is involved in acting from duty and how are moral and
nonmoral motives different?
Reading: Barbara Herman—The Practice of Moral Judgment, chapter
1 and
Christine Korsgaard—“From Duty and for the Sake of the Noble: Kant
and Aristotle on Morally Good Action” in Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics
Week four: is the motive of duty either necessary or sufficient for
moral action?
Reading: Rosalind Hursthouse—On Virtue Ethics, chapters 6 and 7
Weeks five and six: criticism and defense of acting from duty and the
emotions as moral motives.
Readings: Bernard Williams—Moral Luck, chapters 1 and 2; Barbara
Herman—The Practice of Moral Judgment, chapter 2; Marcia Baron—Kantian
Ethics
Almost Without Apology, chapter 6; Michael Stocker—“The Schizophrenia
of Modern Ethical Theories” and Marcia Baron—Kantian Ethics Almost
Without
Apology, chapter 4.
Week seven: alternative accounts of moral motivation
Readings: Sam Scheffler—“Naturalism, Psychoanalysis, and Moral Motivation”
and Daniel Guevara—Kant’s Theory of Moral Motivation, chapter
3
Weeks eight and nine: over determination of moral action
Readings: Daniel Guevara—Kant’s Theory of Moral Motivation,
chapter 1; Marcia Baron—Kantian Ethics Almost Without Apology, chapter
5; Judith Baker
“Do one’s motives have to be pure?”; and Barbara Herman—The
Practice of Moral Judgment, chapter 1.
Week ten: a lecture outlining a new view of moral motivation
Reading list
Immanuel Kant—Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, section 1
Marcia Baron—Kantian Ethics Almost Without Apology, chapters 4,
5and 6
Daniel Guevara—Kant’s Theory of Moral Motivation, chapters
1 and 3
Christine Korsgaard—“From Duty and for the Sake of the Noble: Kant
and Aristotle on Morally Good Action” in Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics
Barbara Herman—The Practice of Moral Judgment, chapters 1 and 2.
Rosalind Hursthouse—On Virtue Ethics, chapters 6 and 7
Bernard Williams—Moral Luck, chapters 1 and 2
Sam Scheffler—“Naturalism, Psychoanalysis, and Moral Motivation”
Michael Stocker—“The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories”
Judith Baker—“Do One’s Motives Have to be Pure?”
Undergraduate students are required to write a one-page paper each week and
give one short presentation on one of the assigned articles. In addition,
undergraduates are required to write a 10-page term paper.
All graduate students are required to meet with the other graduate students taking the course for one hour each week to discuss that week’s reading. Each graduate student will write a one-page paper discussing one of the interesting philosophical points from that discussion or the weeks reading. In addition, each graduate student is required to write a 15-page term paper. There will be a meeting with me in the eighth week to discuss an outline of this term paper.
All students are required to have had at least one upper division philosophy course—preferably, though not necessarily, a moral philosophy course.
Winter 2002
Instructor: Jocelyn Hoy
TH 9:00–12:00 p.m.
Cowell 216
This course will be conducted as a senior seminar, limited to twenty Philosophy
and/or Women’s Studies majors. While there are definite prerequisites listed
on the computer, you can get permission to enroll by consulting with Jocelyn.
(For example, it is not really necessary to have already taken PHIL 168/147,
the women’s issues course.) This course will focus on theories of self,
agency, and autonomy redefined socially or relationally.
Readings will include: Mackenzie and Stoljar, eds. “Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency and the Social Self”; Diana T. Meyers, ed., “Feminists Rethink the Self”; Morwenna Griffiths, “Feminists and the Self”; Judith Butler, “The Psychic Life of Power” OR “Bodies That Matter.” Possibly a reader of additional articles.
Students will be required to write a two-page critical response to assigned readings for each seminar, as well as a ten-fifteen page seminar paper. The seminar paper will require at least two drafts, the earlier versions read by both instructor and peers.
Evaluations will be based on participation in the seminar discussion, the short critical responses, and the final seminar paper.
Winter 2002
Instructor: Robert Meister
W 11:00–2:30 p.m.
Porter 250
Investigates issues about identity and recognition as basis for claims about
institutional legitimacy and social struggle. Paradigm is Hegel’s account
of relation of master and slave in Phenomenology of Spirit. Contemporary political
philosophy examines differing accounts of reason, power, resistance, liberation,
morality, difference, and the other. Concludes with discussion of identity and
interest politics, multiculturalism, and assimilation, and moral bases of struggle,
reconciliation, and compromise in the political arena. (Also offered as Politics
200A. Students may not receive credit for both courses.) Enrollment limited
to 15. Enrollment restricted to politics and philosophy graduate students.
Winter 2002
Instructor: Richard Otte
TTH 2:00–3:45 p.m.
Merrill 132
This is the graduate section of Intermediate Logic. In this course we will focus
on meta-theoretic results of first order logic. We will begin by presenting
the semantics of first order logic more formally than was done in Philosophy
9. After gaining a fuller understanding of the foundations of first order logic,
we will prove several meta-theoretic results, focusing on the soundness and
completeness of first order logic. If time permits, we will then look at issues
involving computability and modal logic.
Evaluations will be based on several exams.
The text for the course is Computability and Logic, by Boolos and Jeffrey, although much of the information discussed in class will be given in lecture and is not in the text.
Students are expected to have successfully completed the equivalent of Philosophy 9, Introduction to Logic, as it is taught at UCSC. If students have any questions about whether their background in logic is sufficient for this course, they should speak to the instructor.
New Graduate Course
Winter 2002
Instructor: Jerome Neu
M 6:30–9:30 p.m.
Stevenson 230
What kind of injury is an insult? Is its infliction determined by the insulter
or the insulted? What does it reveal of the character of each and of the character
of society and its conventions? What is its role in social and legal life (from
play to jokes to ritual to war and from defamation to fighting words to harassment)?
Philosophical, anthropological, psychoanalytic, and legal approaches to the
questions will be emphasized.
The texts will include Humiliation by William Ian Miller, Words that
Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment
by Mari J. Matsuda et al., and Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language,
Oaths and Profanity in English by Geoffrey Hughes. The books will be available
at the Literary Guillotine. There will be a course reader as well (available
from the Campus Copy Center). Seven short papers (2–3 pages) will be required.
This course is open to graduate students in all disciplines.
Winter 2002
Instructor: Alva Noe
TTH 12:00–1:45 p.m.
Cowell 131
An examination of philosophical and empirical theories of the mind. What is
the mind? Can it be studied scientifically? The relation of mind to brain, body,
and behavior; language and thought; animal and machine minds; intentionality;
rationality, consciousness; cognitive science.