| WEEK/Day | Activity |
| WEEK 1 | |
| W-1/18 | Introduction – Syllabus – Blackboard – House of Life |
| http://getsyllab.us/ | |
| Where to begin? Pragmatism, Western Hemisphere, or USA? Indigenous, Portugese, Spanish, French, Dutch, German Pilgrims, or Quakers? Instructor interests: Germantown Quakers, George Fox, William Penn, John Woolman, Anthony Benezet, Ben Franklin, Frederick Douglass | |
| WEEK 2 | |
| M-1/23 | Frederick Douglass (Narrative, July 4th) |
| http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23/23-h/23-h.htm#2HCH0010 | |
| http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=162 | |
| W-1/25 | Emerson, Thoreau (Oversoul, Civil Disobedience) |
| http://moonchalice.com/emerson_oversoul.htm | |
| http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html | |
| WEEK 3 | |
| M-1/30 | Metaphysical Club, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (Common Law, Path of the Law) |
| http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2449 | |
| http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2373 | |
| W-2/1 | Peirce (On a New List of Categories, The Fixation of Belief, How to Make our Ideas Clear) |
| http://www.peirce.org/writings.html | |
| WEEK 4 | |
| M-2/6 | Addams (Democracy and Social Justice, The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets) |
| http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15487 | |
| http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16221 | |
| W-2/8 | DuBois (Souls of Black Folk) |
| http://www.bartleby.com/114/ | |
| WEEK 5 | |
| M-2/13 | James (Will to Believe, A Pluralistic Universe, Varieties of Religious Experience) |
| http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26659 | |
| http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11984 | |
| http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/621 | |
| W-2/15 | DUE: First Paper / Workshop |
| 3-4 pages: Present one text with quotes and citations in MLA style (1-2 pages). Present your philosophical response (1-2 pages). | |
| WEEK 6 | |
| M-2/20 | Dewey (How We Think, Democracy and Education, Art as Experience) |
| http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37423 | |
| http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/852 | |
| http://books.google.com/books?id=aAbqAGo5MwwC | |
| W-2/22 | Mead (Definition of the Psychical, The Philosophical Basis of Ethics ) |
| http://www.brocku.ca/MeadProject/Mead/pubs/Mead_1903.html | |
| http://www.brocku.ca/MeadProject/Mead/pubs/Mead_1908b.html | |
| WEEK 7 | |
| M-2/27 | Black Elk Speaks |
| http://www.firstpeople.us/articles/Black-Elk-Speaks/Black-Elk-Speaks-Index.html | |
| W-2/29 | Alain Locke (Values and Imperatives, Functional Pluralism) |
| http://books.google.com/books?id=8p0UmbBg78IC | |
| WEEK 8 | |
| M-3/5 | Farmer / Thurman (American Critical Hermeneutics? Jesus and the Disinherited) |
| http://books.google.com/books?id=VhmpTBx_Ms4C | |
| W-3/7 | King (Letter from Birmingham Jail) / Malcolm (The Ballot or the Bullet) |
| http://www.kinginstitute.info/ | |
| http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/065.html | |
| SPRING | BREAK |
| WEEK 9 | |
| M-3/19 | Quine (Word and Object) |
| http://www.scribd.com/doc/6543183/Quine-Word-and-Object | |
| http://books.google.com/books?id=sVH3YlIZK5QC | |
| W-3/21 | Rorty (Linguistic Turn: see “methodological nominalism”, “semantic ascent”, “extensional inductive logic”; “inversely proportional”; “particular formulation”. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: “Dewey”, “Hermeneutics”, “Epistemology”) |
| http://books.google.com/books?id=LTOaM0X6e6cC | |
| http://books.google.com/books?id=cxYFw3NkPMoC | |
| WEEK 10 | |
| M-2/26 | Chavez (1984 Commonwealth Address) |
| http://www.ufw.org/_page.php?menu=research&inc=history/12.html | |
| W-3/28 | DUE: Second Paper / Workshop |
| 5-7 Pages: Present one text with quotes and citations MLA style (1-2 pages); present a critical commentary with quotes and citations (1-2 pages); present your own philosophical response (2-3 pages). | |
| WEEK 11 | |
| M-4/2 | Angela Davis (1997 PBS Interview) |
| http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/interviews/davis.html | |
| W-4/4 | Cornel West (Evasion of American Philosophy, Democracy Matters) |
| http://books.google.com/books?id=EDkdjUUVLCIC | |
| WEEK 12 | |
| M-4/9 | Deloria (Power and Place) |
| http://books.google.com/books?id=962LpdtlE-8C | |
| W-4/11 | Anzaldua (Borderlands, This Bridge Called My Back) |
| http://books.google.com/books?id=NGYrAwWNKH4C | |
| WEEK 13 | |
| M-4/16 | Habermas |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_pragmatics | |
| http://books.google.com/books?id=fmYjgiUMy7EC | |
| See also: Kellner and Antonio on Habermas and Dewey | |
| See also via Philosopher’s Index: Rorty, Richard. “Universalist Grandeur, Romantic Depth, Pragmatist Cunning.” Diogenes 51:2.202 (2004): 129-140. Philosopher’s Index. Web. 6 Apr. 2012. | |
| W-4/18 | Butler (Gender Trouble) |
| http://books.google.com/books?id=yzQC9B-jCVQC | |
| WEEK 14 | |
| M-4/23 | Popol Vuh |
| http://books.google.com/books?id=NQnJQR6LQuwC | |
| http://books.google.com/books?id=qpdB1HzGAygC | |
| http://books.google.com/books?id=hJx47n_sm-YC | |
| W-4/25 | Biosemiotics |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosemiotics | |
| When semiotics is generalized into biosemiotics, it has at least three possible roles in biology: 1. We can use (originally) anthropomorphic semiotic concepts (like sign, interpretation or agent) merely as metaphors and analogies that make biological phenomena more comprehensible or lively in popular texts — or that give new insights for new biological hypotheses and experiments. 2. We can see the value of biosemiotics as an alternative philosophy of biology, an alternative way to integrate “folk biology” and “scientific biology” (cf. Emmeche 2000: 188), or as an alternative metaphysical interpretation of biological phenomena. 3. We can see it (in its present state) as a potential ground for a new ground theory of biology, a theory in which the vertical and horizontal aspects of biosemiosis1 are integrated. –Tommi Vehkavaara. “Why and how to naturalize semiotic concepts for biosemiotics.” Sign Systems Studies 30.1, 2002. |
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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesper_Hoffmeyer | |
| http://www.biosemiotics.org/ | |
| WEEK 15 | |
| M-4/30 | Recuperations / Draft Workshops |
| Draft Workshops | |
| WEEK 16 | |
| W-5/9 2:00 | DUE: Final Paper Workshop |
| 10-12 pages: Drawing on skills from the first two papers present texts, critical commentaries, and your own philosophical view. Double penalties for absent. No late work accepted. |
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