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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: Readings for next week: The Tamar Szabo Gendler article from the Kieran volume.

03/22/07: Readings for next week: The Lopes paper from the Kieran volume and the Wollheim paper from the Lamarque volume. Both are short.

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: Readings for next week: The Pettit paper from the Lamarque volume. The TA, Brian, will do the lecturing next week.

03/06/07: Readings for the week after next: Weatherson on imaginative resistance.

02/27/07: Very important announcement: the second short paper assignment is cancelled.

02/15/07: Readings for the week after the Spring break: The Adam Smith excerpt (a direct link is here), and the Currie as well as the Meskin-Weinberg paper in the Kieran anthology.

02/09/07: Just so that you know: your next short paper will be due on the 6th of March.

02/08/07: Readings for next week: The Beardsley paper (in the Lamarque anthology) and the Carroll paper (in the Kieran anthology).

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: Readings for next week:

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: Readings for next week (still online):

Kendall Walton: Categories of Art (if you do not have the book, you can download the text from here)

 

01/11/07: Readings for next week:

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.