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課程名稱

美國實用主義
American Pragmatism

開課學期

101-1

授課對象

文學院哲學研究所

授課教師

柏嘯虎

課號

Phl7750

課程識別碼

124EM7190

班次

學分

全/半年

半年

必/選修

選修

上課時間

星期四2,3,4(9:10~12:10)

上課地點

哲研討室二

備註

本課程以英語授課。
總人數上限：15人

Ceiba 課程網頁

http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1011pragmatism

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課程概述

為了徹底了解實用主義的關注、論點和方法，這學期的前2/3會專注于美國實用主義的古典文件。學期的後1/3，我們將研究胡適所提的實用主義、他對教育改革的論點、以及他對中國傳統哲學的重新評估和他持續的影響力。我們的專注點將著重在於作者實際的主張和論點，不過我們也會關注到他們落實的結果。

課程目標

本課程的目標為透過美國實用主義早期主要哲學家的文件和目前哲學家寫的文章介紹美國實用主義給學生。因爲實用主義一直牽涉到學術之外的事情，我們將關注它對其他學科和大社會的影響。希望到了學期終了時，學生將能夠識別和描述「實用主義之立意」也具有著對哲學及其他學科應用實用主義立意的工具和知識。

課程要求

The requirements for this course consist of two 2 – 3,000 word term papers, each accounting for 40% of your overall grade. Further, you are required to participate in class, which will be measured by a short writing that you bring to class every day: bring a "difficult but answerable" question, relevant to the day's reading, along with a provisional answer. Graded pass/fail, 20 daily assignments graded "pass" constitute full credit, each worth 1% of your overall grade.

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參考書目

Required Texts
1. Author: Menand, Louis
Title: Pragmatism: A Reader
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679775447
2. Author: Wang, Jessica Ching-sze
Title: John Dewey in China: To Teach and to Learn
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 9780791472040
3. Author: Hu, Shih
Title: The Chinese Renaissance
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Electronic edition online
4. Handouts

評量方式
(僅供參考)

No.	項目	百分比	說明
1.	term paper	80%	The requirements for this course consist of two 2 – 3,000 word term papers, each accounting for 40% of your overall grade. .
2.	daily assignment	20%	Further, you are required to participate in class, which will be measured by a short writing that you bring to class every day: bring a "difficult but answerable" question, relevant to the day's reading, along with a provisional answer. Graded pass/fail, 20 daily assignments graded "pass" constitute full credit, each worth 1% of your overall grade

課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
第1週	9/13	Welcome! Pragmatism and the Community of Inquiry Reading: • Habermas: "Philosophy as Stand-In and Interpreter" [20 pages]
第2週	9/20	Readings: • Peirce: from "Some Consequences of Four Incapacities" [3 pages] • Peirce: "The Fixation of Belief" [19 pages] • Peirce: "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" [23 pages]
第3週	9/27	Readings: • Peirce: from "A Guess at the Riddle" [3 pages] • Peirce: from "Evolutionary Love" [4 pages] • Peirce: "A Definition of Pragmatism" [3 pages] • James: "Habit," in The Principles of Psychology [9 pages] • James: "The Will to Believe" [24 pages]
第4週	10/04	Readings: • James: "What Pragmatism Means," in Pragmatism [19 pages] • James: "Pragmatism's Conception of Truth," in Pragmatism [20 pages] • James: from "A Pluralistic Universe" [4 pages]
第5週	10/11	Readings: • Holmes: from "Lecture I: Early Forms of Liability," in The Common Law [2 pages] • Holmes: from "Lecture III: Torts—Trepass and Negligence," in The Common Law [3 pages] • Holmes: from "Privilege, Malice, and Intent" [3 pages] • Holmes: from "Ideals and Doubts" [3 pages] • Holmes: "Natural Law" [5 pages] • Holmes: from Abrams v. United States [5 pages]
第6週	10/18	Readings • Holmes: "The Path of Law" [25 pages] • Addams: from "A Function of the Social Settlement" [14 pages]
第7週	10/25	DISCUSS PAPER TOPICS Readings: • Dewey: "The Ethics of Democracy" [23] • Dewey: "Theories of Knowledge" in Democracy and Education [14 pages]
第8週	11/01	Readings • Dewey: from "The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy" [14 pages] • Dewey: "I Believe" [7 pages]
第9週	11/08	Readings: • Dewey: "Experience, Nature, and Art," in Experience Nature and Art [32 pages] • Wang: John Dewey in China, Chap 1 [12 pages]
第10週	11/15	PAPER #1 DUE at beginning of week DISCUSS PAPER SUMMARIES Readings: • Wang: John Dewey in China, Chaps 1-3 [62 pages]
第11週	11/22	Readings: • Mead: "The Mechanism of Social Consciousness" [8 pages] • Mead: "A Contrast of Individualistic and Social Theories of the Self" [5 pages] • Rorty: "Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism" [8 pags]
第12週	11/29	Readings • Putnam, "Fact and Value," in Reason, Truth and History [25 pages] • Habermas: "Reconstruction and Interpretation in the Social Sciences"[22 pages]
第13週	12/06	Readings • Tan, "China's Pragmatist Experiment in Democracy: Hu Shih's Pragmatism and Dewey's Influence in China," [20 pages] • Yang, selection from "Hu Shih, Pragmatism, and the Chinese Tradition" [21 pages]
第14週	12/13	Readings • Hu, The Chinese Renaissance, Chapter 1 • Hu, The Chinese Renaissance, Chapter 2
第15週	12/20	DISCUSS PAPER TOPICS Readings • Hu, The Chinese Renaissance, Chapter 3 • Hu, The Chinese Renaissance, Chapter 4
第16週	12/27	Readings • Grieder, selections from Hu Shih and the Chinese Renaissance. Liberalism in the Chinese Revolution, 1917-1937 [40 pages]
第17週	1/03	Readings • Hui, "The Fate of 'Mr. Science' in China: The Concept of Science and Its Application in Modern Chinese Thought" [68 pages]
第18週	1/10	PAPER #2 DUE DISCUSS PAPER SUMMARIES Readings • Chan, "Chinese Communism vs. Pragmatism: The Criticism of Hu Shih's Philosophy, 1950-1958" [19 pages] • Chan, "Hu Shih and Chinese Philosophy" [9 pages]