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Philosophy 339
Philosophy of Art
Bence
Nanay
Spring
2007
Announcements and paper topics
Announcements
04/05/07: The final
paper will be due on Thursday the 12th. You can find the paper
topics here.
04/05/07: The optional
make-up paper will be due on Thursday the 12th. You can find the
paper topics here.
03/29/07:
03/22/07:
03/20/07: I promised
you that I would come up with a new grading scheme as the second paper was
cancelled. So here it is.
The first paper and the unannounced tests are
worth as much as they did originally.
The final paper is worth 30 % (and not 25 %),
and it’s also 6 pages max instead of 5.
The remaining 15 % of the second paper you
get automatically. So you start the course on 15 %. Any other arrangement would
have been unfair.
There will also be a make-up paper for those
of you who didn’t do well on the first paper or missed many unannounced tests.
They will be due on
the
last day of classes and you can get 15 % max. Two pages max. there will be only
one topic, which I will announce a week before.
03/06/07:
03/06/07:
02/27/07: Very important announcement: the second
short paper assignment is cancelled.
02/15/07:
02/09/07: Just so that
you know: your next short paper will be due on the 6th of March.
02/08/07:
01/31/07: The first
short paper will be due on Tuesday the 6th. You can find the paper
topics here. Writing philosophy
papers is a tricky business as this peculiar genre has its own rules. You may
want to take a look at my guidelines for writing a philosophy paper, which is
posted on the Lecture Notes and Handouts
website
01/23/07:
George Dickie: The New
Institutional Theory of Art in the Lamarque volume.
If you still don’t have
the book, you can read a longer and more difficult version of the same theory here. (I highly recommend reading the paper in the
Lamarque volume)
01/18/07:
Kendall Walton:
Categories of Art (if you do not have the book, you can download the text from here)
01/11/07:
Morris Weitz: The Role
of Theory in Aesthetics (if you do not have the book, you can download the text
from here)
Arthur C. Danto: The
Artworld (if you do not have the book, you can download the text from here)
01/01/07: The website
is up and running
The
(more or less) final syllabus is above.
You may want to take a look at my guidelines for writing a philosophy paper, which is posted on the Lecture Notes and Handouts website.