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Philosophy 441

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.

03/22/07: Readings for next week: The paper by Alex Byrne on non-conceptual content. You may also want to read the first couple of pages of Crane’s article (not his introduction) in the Crane volume.

03/20/07: I mentioned earlier that there will 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: Two articles by Kendall Walton: one on the perception of pictures and the other one on the perception of photographs. The TA, Josh will do the lecturing next week.

03/06/07: Readings for the week after next: Ryle on imagination and Martin on perception and imagination (only section 3).

02/28/07: The second short paper will be due on Tuesday the 6th. You can find the paper topics here.

02/08/07: Readings for the week after the Spring break: The Hurley paper (direct link here), the Fodor-Pylyshin paper in the Vision and Mind anthology and the O’Shaughnessy paper from the Crane anthology and the Noe paper here.

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 Gibson and the Milner&Goodale paper, both are in the Vision and Mind 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

01/24/07: Readings for next week (still online):

Andy Clark: Visual Experience and Motor Action: Are the Bonds Too Tight? You should be able to reach the file if you follow the link on the syllabus. But if it does not work, you can use this link. 

01/18/07: Readings for next week (still online):

Susanna Siegel: Which properties are represented in perception. You should be able to reach the file if you follow the link on the syllabus (I tried it from three different campus computers). But if all else fails, you can use this link. 

 

01/11/07: Readings for next week:

Daniel C. Dennett: Seeing is Believing. Or, is it? (if you do not have the book, you can download the text from here)

Richard L. Gregory: Perceptions as Hypotheses (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.