Justin Snedegar
This may not be interesting to anyone besides me, or at least anyone besides other USC students, but here goes.
These are the classes I'm taking:
Philosophy of Language, with Nathan Salmon:
This class will focus on work by Saul Kripke. The main paper we will read and discuss is "A Puzzle About Belief". It meets on Mondays from 4:30-7.
Introduction to Contemporary Philosophical Literature, with Scott Soames:
This class is a survey of some of the most important work of the last century (or so), focusing mainly on philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and the philosophy of mind. We will read have sections on Frege, Russell, truth (Tarski, Dummett), Quine & Carnap, Davidson, Kripke, and Lewis & Putnam. It meets on Wednesdays at 2:00.
Metaphysics, with Kadri Vihvelin and Janet Levin:
This class will be on dispositions. We'll look at a lot of literature about what dispositions and dispositional ascriptions amount to, as well as dispositional accounts of various things, including free will. It meets on Thursdays at 2:00.
Studies in Modern Philosophy, with Ed McCann:
I'm just sitting in on this class, but it will focus on John Locke and mechanism and essentialism. (Note: Naming and Necessity is also on the reading list for this course. USC is crazy about Kripke.) It meets on Thursdays from 4:30-7.
There will be one reading group which will focus on "how truth-conditional semantics can accommodate non-descriptive types of significance, and how this might affect metaethics." There is also talk of a reading group on Mark Schroeder's Slaves of the Passions.
This may not be interesting to anyone besides me, or at least anyone besides other USC students, but here goes.
These are the classes I'm taking:
Philosophy of Language, with Nathan Salmon:
This class will focus on work by Saul Kripke. The main paper we will read and discuss is "A Puzzle About Belief". It meets on Mondays from 4:30-7.
Introduction to Contemporary Philosophical Literature, with Scott Soames:
This class is a survey of some of the most important work of the last century (or so), focusing mainly on philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and the philosophy of mind. We will read have sections on Frege, Russell, truth (Tarski, Dummett), Quine & Carnap, Davidson, Kripke, and Lewis & Putnam. It meets on Wednesdays at 2:00.
Metaphysics, with Kadri Vihvelin and Janet Levin:
This class will be on dispositions. We'll look at a lot of literature about what dispositions and dispositional ascriptions amount to, as well as dispositional accounts of various things, including free will. It meets on Thursdays at 2:00.
Studies in Modern Philosophy, with Ed McCann:
I'm just sitting in on this class, but it will focus on John Locke and mechanism and essentialism. (Note: Naming and Necessity is also on the reading list for this course. USC is crazy about Kripke.) It meets on Thursdays from 4:30-7.
There will be one reading group which will focus on "how truth-conditional semantics can accommodate non-descriptive types of significance, and how this might affect metaethics." There is also talk of a reading group on Mark Schroeder's Slaves of the Passions.