View from Heidegger's vacation chalet in Todtnauberg. Heidegger wrote most of Being and Time there.
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Spring 2010
Tu-Th 2:00-3:30
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Prof. Hubert L. Dreyfus
Instructor E-mail
Office: 303 Moses
Office Hours: Tu 4:00-6:00
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This course will consider what the phenomenological tradition has contributed to the philosophical understanding of action. We will focus on the basic structures of everyday practical activity, various states of absorption, mastery, and breakdown, and the role and limitations of intentional content and practical reasoning.
Prerequisite: one upper-division course in phenomenology or ethics, or permission of the instructor.
Required Books:
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
Course Reader (available at Copy Central)Course requirements:
Four 1-page response papers, one in each unit, each due on a Friday of your choice (20%)
One 4-5 page paper, due Monday, February 22 (30%)
One 8-10 page paper, due Monday, May 10 (50%)
Syllabus
I. HEIDEGGER
January 19: Introduction
January 21, 26, 28, February 2: Equipment and worldhood
Being and Time §§14-16,18,69b
Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World, Chapter 4 and Blattner, Heidegger's Being and Time, §V
February 4, 9: Care
Being and Time §§39 and 41
Blattner, Heidegger's Being and Time, §XV
February 11, 16, 18 Conscience, freedom, authenticity
Being and Time, §§54-59 and 62 (optional: §§35-37)
Blattner, Heidegger's Being and Time, §§XIII and XVII and Dreyfus, “Could Anything be
More Intelligible than Everyday Intelligibility?”
First paper due Monday, February 22
II. SARTRE
February 23, 25, March 2: Nothingness, freedom, and bad faith
Being and Nothingness, Part One, Chapter One, §V (selections) and Chapter Two, §II
March 4, 9 Freedom and action
Being and Nothingness, Part Four, Chapter One, §I
March 11, 16 The Situation
Being and Nothingness, Part Four, Chapter One, §§II (through II.C) and III
March 18 NO CLASS
March 23, 25 SPRING BREAK
III. MERLEAU-PONTY
March 30, April 1, 6: The Body and Action
Phenomenology of Perception, Part I, Chapters 2-3
Sean Kelly, “The Logic of Motor Intentional Activity”
April 8, 13: Freedom
Phenomenology of Perception, Part III, Chapter 3
IV. DREYFUS & MCDOWELL
April 15, 20, 22: The Myth of the Mental
McDowell, “What Myth?” and “Response to Dreyfus”
Dreyfus, "The Myth of the Pervasiveness of the Mental"
April 27, 29: Generality and rules
McDowell, “Some Issues in Aristotle's Moral Psychology”
Dreyfus, “What is Moral Maturity? A Phenomenological Account of the Development of Ethical Expertise”
May 3-7 Reading/Review/Recitation Week
Final paper due Monday, May 10
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