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Current Course Syllabi

          On Sabbatical in Minnesota, 2012-13

Selected Old Syllabi

• Philosophical Perspectives on the Humanities, Autumn 2007
• Philosophical Perspectives on the Humanities, Winter 2008
• Intro. to Philosophy
• Formal Logic
• FYI Education
• Ancient Philosophy
• Medieval Philosophy
• Modern Philosophy
• 19th Century
• 19th Century: The Influence of Darwin
• Existentialism
• American Philosophy
• 20th Century
• Philosophy of Science
• Recent Kantian Ethic
• Recent Great Philosophers: Merleau-Ponty
• Foucault

 

Online Lectures:

• Five talks given summer of 2011 at Holden Village

(out of order: first should be "Humans as Self-Interpreting Beings"; next should be "Hermeneutics: Interpreting Texts as a Model for Self-Interpretation"; third: "Kierkeggard on Self-Interpretation"; fourth, "Heidegger and the Revelatory Power of Emotions"; and finally, "Virtues of Self-Interpretation"

Selected Papers

• "Gadamer and Davidson on Language and Thought" (a .pdf file)
• "The Medieval Roots of Hermeneutic Universality" (a .pdf file)
• "Heidegger's Existential Domestication of Luther"(a .pdf file)
• "Paul Ricoeur's and Hans-Georg Gadamer's Diverging Reflections on Recognition" (a .pdf file)
• "Davidson, Gadamer, Incommensurability, and the Third Dogma of Empiricism" (a .pdf file)
• "Who Was Gadamer's Husserl?" (a .pdf file)
• "The Role of Language in Object Transcendence: A Gadamerian Reply to Dreyfus and McDowell" (a .pdf file)
• "The Meaning of a Deathless Life: Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy"
• "Dewey, Gadamer and the Status of Poetry Among the Arts"
• "Hermeneutics in American Philosophy"
• "Gadamer's Hermeneutic Contribution to a Theory of Time-Consciousness"
• "Language as Encoding Thought vs. Language as Medium of Thought:
  On the Question of J. G. Fichte's Influence on Wilhelm von Humboldt" (a .pdf file)
• "Deriving Gadamer's Account of Intersubjectivity from His Account of Dialogue"
• "Pragmatism and Philosophical Hermeneutics" (a .pdf file)
• "Engaging Across Traditions: Royce and Gadamer on Interpretation" (a .pdf file)
• "Gadamer and the Body Across Dialogical Contexts"
• "Gadamer's Account of Friendship as an Alternative to Intersubjectivity"
• "The Polysemy of Otherness: On Ricoeur's Oneself as Another"
• "Hey-diddily-ho, Neighboreenos: Ned Flanders and Neighborly Love"
• "Foucault" (for the Encyclopedia of Phenomenology)
• "Disconnecting Intersubjectivity and Ethics"
• "Gadamer on Heidegger on Authentic Relations to Others"
• "Gadamer and the Fusion of Horizons"
• "Alterity and Faith in Gadamer's Hermeneutics"
• "On Jorge Gracia's How Can We Know What God Means?" ( a .pdf file)
• "The Body as Anstoss in Sartre's Account of Constitution"
• "On the Incompleteness of George Herbert Mead's Theory of the Social Self as an Account of Intersubjectivity: Re-reading Henrich after Habermas"