Graduate Seminar 2008-2009

Spring 2009

Philos 200C
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Title: SEM-FIRST YR GRADS
Instructor: HSU, A.

Title: PLATO
Instructor: KELSEY, S.A.

We will be reading Chris Bobonich’s Plato’s Utopia Recast (Oxford, 2002).

Title: KANT
Instructor: BURGE, C.T.

 

Title: ETHICS & VALUE THEORY
Instructor: HIERONYMI, P.

This is a forum for graduate students who are in the process of writing their dissertations to present to one another work in process. It is open only to advanced graduate students (and faculty) in the UCLA department.

 

SEM-PHILOS OF LANG
PARSONS, T.D.
TRUTH AND SEMANTIC PARADOXES

The topic for the quarter will be theories of truth and (how they are constrained by) semantic paradoxes. I am not yet sure what we will read. The literature is too enormous to cover without excluding prominent approaches. We will certainly cover Tarski’s original paper on the Definition of Truth, and Kripke’s Outline of a Theory of Truth, and quite a few other readings.

 

SEM-WITTGENSTEIN
LAWRENCE, G. / HSU, A.

 

Winter 2009

PHILOS 200B
SEM-FIRST YR GRADS
BURGE, C.T.

 

PHILOS C214
HUME
LAWRENCE, G. / HERMAN, B.

 

PHILOS 231
SEM-INTENSIONL LOGC
ALMOG, J. / KAPLAN, D.B.

 

PHILOS 241
TPCS-POLITCL PHILOS
JULIUS, A.J.

 

PHILOS M256
TOPICS-LEGAL PHILOS
GREENBERG, M.D.

 

PHILOS M257
SEM-PHILOS OF LAW
KISILEVSKY, S.

 

PHILOS 259
ETHICS & VALUE THEORY
HIERONYMI, P.

This is the “Ethics Writing Seminar.” Offered every quarter, it is a forum for graduate students who have successfully completed their Proposition to present to one another work in progress from their dissertation project.

PHILOS 287
SEM-PHILOS OF LANG
CUMMING, S.J.

The topic this time is point-of-view in narrative. We will be reading work by Reichenbach, Kamp, and Caenepeel on tense and aspect; Reinhart and Lewis on de dicto and de se; Cohn, Doron and Sharvit on free indirect discourse, among other stuff.

PHILOS 299
SEM-PHILOS RESEARCH
HIERONYMI, P.

This is the Proposition Seminar, required of and open only to third year students in our PhD program.

 

Fall-Spring 2008

Fall, Winter, Spring Graduate Seminars