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Philosophy 539

Fictionality and the Mind

Graduate Seminar

Bence Nanay

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Spring 2008

Announcements

3/27/08: Reading for the 4^th of April: the Velleman paper on narrative.

3/23/08: Reading for next week: the Currie paper on narrative.

3/8/08: No readings for next week. But participation at the Art and Spectatorship Workshop is compulsory (at least within the time frame of the seminar). The workshop will take place at the Buchanan Penthouse from 11am till 5pm. The exact program is on the website of the Philosophy Department.

2/15/08: Reading for the week after reading week: Gregory Currie: ‘Anne Bronte and the uses of imagination’. It’s in the Currie book. You can also find it in Matthew Kieran (ed.): Contemporary debates in aesthetics and the philosophy of art (Blackwell, 2006). No electronic version, alas.

2/15/08: OH next week: Tue the 26^th, 12pm-2pm, Buchanan E367.

2/13/08: As you know the seminar on the 7^th of March is moved a day ahead because of the schedule of our guest speaker, Berys Gaut. So we’ll meet on Thursday the 6^th of March at 3.30pm in Buchanan B220.

2/8/08: Here is the Currie paper for next week. Or it’s in the book. Its second half is a bit difficult and some metaphysical concepts are not really explained. You may find it useful to read Penelope Mackie’s SEP entry on transworld identity.

2/4/08: Breaking news: Both books are now in the bookstore.

1/31/08: In case the Nichols book is still not available at the Bookstore, you can download the Weinberg-Meskin paper from here.

1/24/08: In case the Nichols book is still not available at the Bookstore, you can download the Gendler paper on imaginative resistance.

1/19/08: A couple of announcements:

1. The Nichols book should be in early next week.

2. We moved the seminar to 12.30pm (and we’ll have no break)

3. The seminar in the first week of March is moved from March 7 to March 6 to accommodate Berys Gaut, who will put in a guest appearance. We’ll start at 3.30pm (location TBA).

4. The times and location of the Art and Spectatorship Workshop that replaces our seminar on the 14^th of March will take place from 11am till 5pm in the Buchanan Penthouse

1/18/08: In case the books are still not in, here is a link to Goldman’s paper, which we’ll discuss next week.

1/11/08: Here is the link for Walton’s paper that is assigned for next week.

12/17/07: I uploaded a revised syllabus, with a preliminary schedule.

10/08/07: The (more or less) final syllabus is above.