課程資訊
課程名稱
專題討論下
SEMINAR (2) 
開課學期
96-2 
授課對象
哲學系  
授課教師
楊金穆 
課號
Phl4998 
課程識別碼
104 40802 
班次
04 
學分
全/半年
全年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期五1(8:10~9:00) 
上課地點
哲314 
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總人數上限:1人 
 
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課程概述

授課大綱 (概述、目標、要求 ):

本課程旨在配合大學部學生選修哲學系所開設之「學士論文」-論文主題Davidson on Minimalism。每週閱\\\讀相關文章一篇,或專書中1到2章,並撰寫摘要,與指導教授個別討論。第一學期著重於對於Frege以後相關文獻的研讀:(1)Frege, Ramsy,Prior Quine, .(2)Hartry Field’s Deflationism and Horwich’s Minimalism. (3) 近年來常見的相關批評。尤其著重對上述哲學家對Deflationism的主張及其論證之分析。

第二學期著重於(4)Davidson的真之理論,以及其對於Deflationism/ Minimalism的批評,以及(5)Horwich如何回應這些批評。並於期中考後草擬底稿並涉獵近期期刊中相關文章每週與指導教授個別討論。尤其將著重對於相關論證之批評以及建構個人的論證。六月修改並繳交「學士論文」-論文主題Davidson on Minimalism。
 

課程目標
本課程旨在配合大學部學生選修哲學系所開設之「學士論文」-論文主題On Terms for Natural Kinds from The Perpective of Essentialism。 
課程要求
 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
 
指定閱讀
 
參考書目
Kripke, S. A. (1972), Naming and Necessity, (1980), Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press
Locke, J. (1689) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975. (Especially Book 2 Chapter 27, and Book 3 Chapters 3 and 6)
Peter A. French, Theodre E. Uehling, Jr., Howard K. Wettstein,(ed.),(1986)Studies in Essentialism, Midwest Studies in Philosophy ; vol. 11, Morris: University of Minnesota Press
Putnam, H. (1975) Mind, Language, and Reality: Philosophical Papers volume II, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Especially Chapters 8, and 10–12)
Riggs, P. (ed.) (1996) Natural Kinds, Laws of Nature, and Scientific Methodology, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press
Wilkerson, T. E. (1995), Natural Kinds, Brookfield: Ashgate.
 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
 
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
短篇報告 
30% 
 
2. 
討論 
30% 
 
3. 
期末報告 
40% 
 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
2/22  Kripke, S. A. (1972), Naming and Necessity, (1980), Lecture I, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 22-70 
第2週
2/29  Kripke, S. A. (1972), Naming and Necessity, (1980), Lecture II, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 71-105 
第3週
3/07  Kripke, S. A. (1972), Naming and Necessity, (1980), Lecture III, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 106-155 
第4週
3/14  Putnam, H. (1973), ,’Meaning and Reference’, Journal of Philosophy 70(1973): 699–711 
第5週
3/21  a. ----- (1983), ‘Possibility and Necessity’, in Realism and Reason: Philosophical Papers, vol. 3, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 46-68
b. ----- (1992), ‘Is It Necessary That Water Is H2O?’ in The Philosphy of A. J. Ayer, L.E. Hahn (ed.) La Salle, Ill.: Open Court
 
第6週
3/28  a. Donnellan, Keith (1983) ‘Kripke and Putnam on Natural Kind Terms’ in Knowledge and Mind, C. Ginet and S. Shoemaker (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press: 84-104
b. Kripke, S. A. (1977), ‘Speaker’s Reference and Semantic Reference’, in Midwest Studies in Philosophy, II Studies in the Philosophy of Language, P. French, T. Uehling, and H.Wettstein (ed.), Morris: University of Minnesota Press: 225-76
 
第7週
4/04  Gomez-Torrente, Mario (2006), ‘Rigidity an essentiality’, Mind 115(2006): 227-59 
第8週
4/11  Heil, John (2005), ‘Kinds and essences’, Ratio XVIII(2005): 405-19 
第9週
4/18  Mid-term report: Write a short esay (8-10 pages) 
第10週
4/25  a. Reid, Jasper (2002), ‘Natural Kind Essentialism’, Australasian Journal of Philosphy 80: 62-74
b. Wilkerson, T. E. (1993), ‘Species, Essences and the Names of Natural Kinds’, The Philosophical Quarterly 43:1-19
 
第11週
5/02  a. Doepke, F. (1992), ‘Identity and natural kinds’, The Philosophical Quarterly 42 (1992): 89-94
b. Kripke, S. A. (1972), ‘Identity and necessity’, in Identity and Individuation, M. K. Munitz (ed.), New York University Press, 1971, 135-64; reprinted in Moore (1993): 162-191
 
第12週
5/09  Hacking, Ian (1991), ‘A Tradition of Natural Kinds’, Philosophical Studies 61: 109-26 
第13週
5/16  LaPorte, J. (2000) ‘Rigidity and Kind’ Philosophical Studies 97: 293-316 Philosphical Quarterly 43: 1-19 
第14週
5/23  Mumford, Stephen (2005), ‘Kinds, essences, powers’, Ratio XVIII(2005): 420-36 
第15週
5/30  Ellis, Brian (2005), ‘Universals, the essential problem and categorical properties’, Ratio XVIII(2005): 462- 
第16週
6/06  a. Macbeth, Danielle (1995), ‘Names, natural kind terms, and rigid designation’, Philosophical Studies 79: 259-81
b. Li, Chenyang (1993), ‘Natural Kinds: Direct Reference, Realism, and the Impossibility of Necessary A Posteriori Truth’, Review of Metaphysics 47: 261-76
 
第17週
6/13  Wilkerson, T. E. (1995), Natural Kinds, Chapter three, Brookfield: Ashgate. 
第18週
6/20  End-of-term report: Write a long essay (about 15 pages)