PHIL 3923H:  Deception and Delusion (Honors Colloquium)


Syllabus

Date
Assignments and Information


Tuesday, Aug 26
No assignment
Thursday, Aug 28
Dennett, "Setting Off on the Right Foot" and "True Believers"; Notes 1
Link:  Game of Life


Tuesday, Sept 2
Dennett, "Three Kinds of Intentional Psychology"; Notes 2
Thursday, Sept 4
Dennett, "Making Sense of Ourselves"; Notes 3


Tuesday, Sept 9
Dennett, "Intentional Systems in Cognitive Ethology"; Notes 4
Thursday, Sept 11
Mele, Chapter 1; Notes 5
Shorter Paper Assignment


Tuesday, Sept 16
Mele, Chapter 2; Notes 6
Thursday, Sept 18
Mele, Chapter 3; Notes 7


Tuesday, Sept 23
Mele, Chapter 4; Notes 8
Thursday, Sept 25
Mele, Chapters 5 & 6; Notes 9


Tuesday, Sept 30
Hirstein, Chapter 1; Notes 10
Shorter Paper Due
Thursday, Oct 2
Hirstein, Chapters 3 & 4; Notes 11


Tuesday, Oct 7
Hirstein, Chapters 5 & 6; Notes 12
Thursday, Oct 9
Hirstein, Chapter 8; Notes 13


Tuesday, Oct 14
Hirstein, Chapters 9 & 10; Notes 14
Take-Home Midterm
Thursday, Oct 16
NO CLASS -- Work on Midterm


Tuesday, Oct 21
Davies and Coltheart, "Introduction:  Pathologies of Belief"; Notes 15
http://0-www3.interscience.wiley.com.library.uark.edu/cgi-bin/fulltext/119041812/PDFSTART
Midterm Due
Thursday, Oct 23
Young, "Wondrous Strange:  The Neuropsychology of Abnormal Beliefs"; Notes 16
http://0-www3.interscience.wiley.com.library.uark.edu/cgi-bin/fulltext/119041813/PDFSTART


Tuesday, Oct 28
Breen, et al., "Towards an Understanding of Delusions of Misidentification:  Four Case Studies"; Notes 17
http://0-www3.interscience.wiley.com.library.uark.edu/cgi-bin/fulltext/119041814/PDFSTART
Thursday, Oct 30
Gerrans, "Refining the Explanation of Cotard's Delusion"; Notes 18
http://0-www3.interscience.wiley.com.library.uark.edu/cgi-bin/fulltext/119041815/PDFSTART


Tuesday, Nov 4
Gold and Hohwy, "Rationality and Schizophrenic Delusion"; Notes 19
http://0-www3.interscience.wiley.com.library.uark.edu/cgi-bin/fulltext/119041817/PDFSTART
Longer Paper Assignment
Thursday, Nov 6
NO CLASS -- But, still do the reading.
Currie, "Imagination, Delusion and Hallucinations"; Notes 20
http://0-www3.interscience.wiley.com.library.uark.edu/cgi-bin/fulltext/119041818/PDFSTART


Tuesday, Nov 11
Stephens and Graham, Chapters 1 & 2; Notes 21
Thursday, Nov 13
Stephens and Graham, Chapter 3; Notes 22


Tuesday, Nov 18
Stephens and Graham, Chapters 4 & 5; Notes 23
Thursday, Nov 20
Stephens and Graham, Chapter 6; Notes 24


Tuesday, Nov 25
Stephens and Graham, Chapter 7; Notes 25
Thursday, Nov 27
Thanksgiving Break


Tuesday, Dec 2
Stephens and Graham, Chapter 8; Notes 26
Thursday, Dec 4
No assignment


Tuesday, Dec 9
Longer Paper Due
Final Exam Questions


Wednesday, Dec 17
Final Exam  (7:30 -- 9:30 a.m., in our regular classroom)






























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