- Instructor:
- Richard
Lee (Office
hours)
- Course number:
- PHIL 5983 (SAFARI
number: 06206)
- Time:
- Th 3:30 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.
- Room:
- MAIN
327
- Pre-requisites:
- Graduate standing or permission of the
instructor
- Brief Description:
-
What constitutes a good reason for doing something? Under what
circumstances is an action irrational or rational. This seminar will
explore answers to these and related questions. We'll start with readings
from Aristotle and Hume, but quickly move to readings by contemporary
philosphers. We'll focus on writings by Searle, Dancy, and Bratman.
- Texts:
-
- John Searle, Rationality
in Action (MIT, 2003) ISBN: 0262692821
- Michael Bratman, Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason
(Cambridge, 1999) ISBN: 1575861925
- Jonathan Dancy, Practical Reality (Oxford, 2003)
ISBN: 0199253056
- plus material on web and material on reserve
Other information:
Richard Lee,
rlee@uark.edu,
last modified: 25 August 2003