| PHIL 285 --
Consciousness and Intentionality in German Idealism Winter 2015 |
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| Instructor:
Clinton Tolley office: HSS 8018 hours: tbd email: ctolley [at] ucsd.edu |
Instructor:
tbd office: tbd hours: tbd email: tbd |
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| Time:
Tues
4:00pm--6:50pm Location: Philosophy Seminar Room (7th fl, HSS 7077) [map] |
| {all required texts will be
made available electronically} |
| Karl Ameriks, ed. Cambridge
Companion to German Idealism (Cambridge) Terry Pinkard, German Philosophy 1760-1860 (Cambridge) Robert Pippin, Hegel's Idealism (Cambridge) |
| In this course we will
focus on the accounts of intentionality and consciousness
that emerge in the writings of those working in the
post-Kantian tradition known as German Idealism. We
will read key primary texts by Reinhold, Fichte,
Schelling, Hoelderlin, Novalis, and Hegel, and discuss
recent influential work on these figures and topics by
people like Karl Ameriks, Frederick Beiser, Robert
Brandom, Jane Kneller, Charles Larmore, John McDowell,
Dalia Nassar, Terry Pinkard, Robert Pippin, Sally
Sedgwick, and Slavoj Zizek. Topics to be covered will include: * the nature of the relationship between 'being [Sein]' and 'consciousness [Bewusst-sein; being-conscious]'; * the place of consciousness in subjectivity; * the relation between consciousness and representationality; * the different forms of consciousness and their inter-relations (sensory, imaginative, intellectual, theoretical, practical, aesthetic, religious); * the question of whether consciousness is, or always involves, self-consciousness; * the extent to which consciousness is itself an activity; * the role of consciousness in agency, freedom, and responsibility; * the possibility that consciousness is already, or could become, absolute or unconditioned. |
| {tentative} * attendance * weekly brief (~3min) presentations in opening discussion * weekly brief (~2pp) written responses to primary texts * medium-length (~3000 word) final essay: critical engagement with secondary literature |
| {tentative} * week 1: Reinhold * weeks 2-3: Fichte * weeks 4: Hoelderlin and Novalis * weeks 5-6: Schelling * weeks 7-10: Hegel |
| This course can satisfy the history of philosophy requirement and the philosophy of mind/language requirement. If you'd like to satisfy a different requirement, please contact me directly. |
| {coming soon} |