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Philosophy 188: Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception

166 Barrows , Tues/Thurs 11-12:30, Spring 2005, Prof. Hubert L. Dreyfus

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	Revised Syllabus
Jan. 18, 20	Sensation/Association	3 - 12	3 - 14
Jan. 25, 27	Attention and Judgement	13 - 51	15 - 59
Feb. 1, 3	The phenomenal field	52 - 63	60 - 74
Feb. 8, 10, 17	The problem of the body	67 - 97	75 - 111
Feb. 22, 24	Motility (1)	98 - 153	112 - 177
March 1, 3	Motility (2)

MARCH 3	FIRST PAPER DUE

March 8, 10	Sense Experience	203 - 242	235 - 282
March 15, 17	Space (1)	243 - 267	283 - 311
March 29, 31	Space (2)	267 - 298	311 - 347
April 5, 7	The thing (1)	299 - 327	348 - 381
April 12, 14	The thing (2)	327 - 345	381 - 402
April 19, 21	Other Selves	346 - 365	403 - 425
April 26, 28	The Cogito	369 - 409	429 - 475
May 3, 5	Temporality	410 - 433	476 - 503
May 10	Freedom	434 - 456	504 - 530

MAY 12	SECOND PAPER DUE

Required texts:

Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, Routledge.

Recommended texts:

Merleau-Ponty, The Structure of Behavior, Duquesne University Press

Merleau-Ponty, Sense and Non-sense, Northwestern University Press

Todes, Samuel, Body and World, MIT Press

Requirements:

Reading almost all of Phenomenology of Perception.

Two 7-8 page papers, or one 15 page paper.

Prerequisites:

History of Modern Philosophy (25B) or an equivalent course is required. It would also help to have taken Searle’s Philosophy of Mind (132), and/or Kant (178), and /or Being and Time (185)