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PHIL 488

Current Research in Philosophy

3 units

Winter 2025

Topics

  • Representational Mind Part II The Computational Mind Part I
  • Mind Part II The 4E Mind
  • Part I
Fall 2024 · Current Research in Philosophy / Selected Problems in Philosophy

Topics

  • Philosophical intuitions
  • Conceptual engineering
  • Experimental philosophy
  • Conceptual analysis
  • Philosophical methods

Readings

  • Bealer, George (1996) “A priori knowledge and the scope of philosophy.” Philosophical Studies 81: 121–142.
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  • Brigandt, Ingo (2013) “A critique of David Chalmers’ and Frank Jackson’s account of concepts.” ProtoSociology 30: 63–88.
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  • Buckwalter, Wesley and Stephen Stich (2014) “Gender and philosophical intuition.” In J. Knobe and S. Nichols (eds.), Experimental Philosophy, Volume 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 307–346.
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  • Burgess, Alexis, and David Plunkett (2013) “Conceptual ethics I.” Philosophy Compass 8: 1091– 1101.
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  • Burgess, Alexis, and David Plunkett (2013) “Conceptual ethics II.” Philosophy Compass 8: 1092– 1110.
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  • Chalmers, David J. (1996) The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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  • Chalmers, David J (2002) “The components of content.” In D. Chalmers (ed.), Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 608–633.
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  • Gettier, Edmund L. (1963) “Is justified true belief knowledge?” Analysis 23: 121–123
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  • Haslanger, Sally (2000) “Gender and race: (What) Are they? (What) Do we want them to be?” Noûs 34: 31–55.
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  • Hintikka, Jaakko (1999) “The emperor’s new intuitions.” The Journal of Philosophy 96: 127–147.
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  • Jackson, Frank (1998) From Metaphysics to Ethics: A Defense of Conceptual Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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  • Jenkins, Katharine (2016) “Amelioration and inclusion: gender identity and the concept of woman.” Ethics 126: 394–421.
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  • Kauppinen, Antti (2007) “The rise and fall of experimental philosophy.” Philosophical Explorations 10: 95–118.
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  • Knobe, Joshua (2007) “Experimental philosophy and philosophical significance.” Philosophical Explorations 10: 119–121.
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  • Knobe, Joshua, and Shaun Nichols (2008) “An experimental philosophy manifesto.” In J. Knobe and S. Nichols (eds.), Experimental Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3–14.
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  • Livengood, Jonathan, and Edouard Machery (2007) “The folk probably don’t think what you think they think: experiments on causation by absence.” Midwest Studies in Philosophy 31: 107–127.
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  • Ludlow, Peter (2014) “Norms of word meaning litigation.” Protosociology 31: 88–112.
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  • Machery, Edouard (2008) “The folk concept of intentional action: philosophical and experimental issues.” Mind and Language 23: 165–189.
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  • Mallon, Ron (2006) “ ‘Race’: normative, not metaphysical or semantic.” Ethics 116: 525–551.
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  • Mallon, Ron, Edouard Machery, Shaun Nichols, and Stephen Stich (2009) “Against arguments from reference.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 79: 332–356.
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  • Nadelhoffer, Thomas (2006) “Bad acts, blameworthy agents, and intentional actions.” Philosophical Explorations 9: 203–219.
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  • Nado, Jennifer (2014) “Philosophical expertise.” Philosophy Compass 9: 631–641.
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  • Nado, Jennifer (2014) “The role of intuition.” In J. Sytsma (ed.), Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Mind, London: Bloomsbury, 11–43.
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  • Nado, Jennifer (2019) “Conceptual engineering, truth, and efficacy.” Synthese. doi:10.1007/s11229-019- 02096-x
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  • Plunkett, David, and Tim Sundell (2013) “Disagreement and the semantics of normative and evaluative terms.” Philosophers’ Imprint 13: 23.
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  • Putnam, Hilary (1975) “The meaning of ‘meaning’.” In H. Putnam, Mind, Language and Reality: Philosophical Papers, Vol. 2, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 215–271.
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  • Quine, Willard Van Orman (1953) “Two dogmas of empiricism.” Philosophical Review 60: 20– 43.
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  • Ritchie, Katherine (2021) “Essentializing language and the prospects for ameliorative projects.” Ethics 131: 460–488.
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  • Sarkissian, Hagop, John Park, David Tien, Jennifer Cole Wright and Joshua Knobe (2011) “Folk moral relativism.” Mind & Language 26: 482–505.
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  • Saul, Jennifer (2006) “Gender and race.” Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 80: 119–143.
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  • Sosa, Ernest (2005) “A defense of the use of intuitions in philosophy.” In D. Murphy and M. Bishop (eds.), Stich and His Critics, Malden: Blackwell, 101–112.
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  • Stich, Stephen (2005) “Reply to Sosa.” In D. Murphy and M. Bishop (eds.), Stich and His Critics, Malden: Blackwell, 228–237.
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