Additional readings will be made available through the Philosophy Department reserve file (behind the desk in the reception area of the department office), and through the Marriott Library reserve desk. (See Marriott's Course Reserve How to Guide for an intro to using the library reserves.)
Optional prereading: "Practical Reasoning: The Current State of Play" (VPR, ch. 1); Practical Reasoning and the Structure of Actions, in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
(Optional reading really is optional. These are overviews of the subject area, in case you want more of an idea of what the topic is.)
Reading: Williams, "Internal and External Reasons" (VPR, ch. 1; on reserve in the Philosophy Department); Korsgaard, "Skepticism about Practical Reasons" (VPR, ch. 6; also available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2026464, and on reserve in the Philosophy Department).
Optional reading: Williams, "Internal Reasons and the Obscurity of Blame" (Marriott reserve; Philosophy Department reserve); Hooker, "Williams' Argument against External Reasons" (VPR, ch. 5); John McDowell, "Might There Be External Reasons?" (Marriott reserve; Philosophy Department reserve); Dreier, "Humean Doubts about Categorical Imperatives" (VPR, ch. 2); Robertson, "Internalism, Practical Reason, and Motivation" (VPR, ch. 7).
And followon reading (a model for a longer term paper): Hieronymi, "Internal Reasons and the Integrity of Blame".
Reading: Michael Smith, "The Humean Theory of Motivation," Mind 96(381), Jan. 1987: 36-61; you can find this at http://www.jstor.org/stable/2253760. (For off-campus access, click through to the article from the Marriott catalog; you'll be required to log in using your UNID and campus password.) The paper is also in the reserve folder in the Philosophy Department reception area. You'll also need a read a short passage from Anscombe; conveniently for us, it's quoted in Vogler, "Anscombe on Practical Inference" (VPR, ch. 19), on p. 437 -- this is the very first para. of the chapter. (It's also on reserve in the Philosophy Department, as an excerpt from Intention.) Joseph Raz, "The Myth of Instrumental Rationality," Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 1(1), April 2005: 2-28 (Marriott reserve; the paper is also in the reserve folder in the Philosophy Department reception area.)
Optional reading: Fehige, "Instrumentalism" (VPR, ch. 3). Plus reserve typescript (available in the Philosophy Department), up to p. 16.
Reading: Michael Thompson, Life and Action, Parts I and II.
Optional reading: Vogler, "Anscombe on Practical Inference" (VPR, ch. 19); Chrisoula Andreou, "Getting on in a Varied World" (Marriott e-reserve); Thompson, "Apprehending Human Form" (Marriott e-reserve); Thompson, "Three Degrees of Natural Goodness" (on reserve in the Philosophy Department); Jay Odenbaugh, "Nothing Makes Sense in Ethics Except in Light of Evolution?" (Marriott e-reserve).
Reading: Kolnai, "Deliberation Is of Ends" (VPR, ch. 12); Buss, "Personal Ideals, Moral Requirements, and the Ideal of Rational Agency" (mss, on reserve in Marriott and the Philosophy Department): read up to p. 17, then the paragraphs bridging pp. 22-23, 25-26, and the third para. on p. 32 (starting, respectively, "Of course, different ways of being good..."; "In short, the moral ideal is..."; and "To appreciate the problem").
Optional reading: Millgram, "Specificationism" (Marriott reserve); Wiggins, "Deliberation and Practical Reason" (VPR, ch. 13); the rest of the Buss mss.
Reading: O'Neill, "Consistency in Action" (VPR, ch. 14); Korsgaard, "Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant" (on reserve in Marriott and the Philosophy Department).
Optional reading: Tamar Schapiro, "Three Conceptions of Action in Moral Theory" (= http://www.jstor.org/stable/2671947 ) Luca Ferrero, "Constitutivism and the Inescapability of Agency"; Margaret Bowman, "Can the Categorical Imperative Test Final Ends?" (Marriott e-reserve).
Reading: Murdoch, "The Idea of Perfection" (VPR, ch. 18); Dancy, Ethics without Principles, chs. 1-3.
Optional reading: Dancy, sec. 4.5; Millgram, Review of Iris Murdoch, Existentialist and Mystics (on reserve in the Philosophy Department); Millgram, "Murdoch, Practical Reasoning, and Particularism" (Marriott e-reserve); Murdoch, "The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts" (online reserve).
Have a great fall break -- take Dancy and Velleman to Bermuda with you!
Reading: Dancy, Ethics without Principles, chs. 5-6; sec. 10.2; ch. 11; Rube Goldberg machines in Minecraft; and elsewhere.
Optional reading: Dancy, EWP secs. 7.4, 7.7, 10.1; Dancy, "The Role of Imaginary Cases in Ethics" (online reserve); Cora Diamond, "We Are Perpetually Moralists" (online reserve); Jackson et al., "Ethical Particularism and Patterns" (online reserve).
Reading: Velleman, "The Possibility of Practical Reason"; Velleman, How We Get Along (HWGA), ch. 1.
Optional reading: Slote, "Moderation and Satisficing" (VPR ch. 10).
Reading: Velleman, HWGA, chs. 2-3; Nussbaum, "The Protagoras: A Science of Practical Reasoning" (VPR ch. 8).
Optional reading: Velleman, HWGA, ch. 4.
Reading: Velleman, HWGA, ch. 5; Velleman, "Time for Action" (online reserve).
Optional reading: Velleman, HWGA, ch. 6; Katsafanas, "Constitutivism and Self-Knowledge" (online reserve); Velleman, "Epistemic Freedom" (on reserve in the Philosophy Department); Donna Williams, Nobody Nowhere (on reserve).
Reading: Velleman, HWGA, ch. 7; Davidson, "Outlines of a Formal Theory of Value" (excerpt, online reserve); Goodman, Fact, Fiction, and Forecast (excerpt, online reserve).
Optional reading: Mandler, "A Difficult Choice in Preference Theory: Rationality Implies Completeness or Transitivity but Not Both" (VPR ch. 17); Melville, "Bartleby, The Scrivener" (online reserve).
"Implicit Bias and Korsgaard's Account of Action" (model paper, on reserve in the Philosophy Department); Kyle Barrett, "Explaining Particular Actions" (model paper, on reserve in the Philosophy Department).
Reading: Bratman, "Taking Plans Seriously" (VPR ch. 9), together with HWGA, sec. covering pp. 105-107 (top); Brandom, "Action, Norms, and Practical Reasoning" (VPR ch. 20); review "Time for Action".
Optional reading: Kavka, "The Toxin Puzzle" (online reserve). Followon reading: For a portrait of what it's like to really live up to your self-image, Candace Vogler, "Sex and Talk". And in case you're worried that reading Velleman might turn you into a Vellemanian agent: Ian Hacking, Rewriting the Soul and Mad Travelers.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Reading: Engstrom, The Form of Practical Knowledge, selections. (Photocopy on reserve in the Philosophy Department; read only the marked bits.)
Optional reading: As much more of the Engstrom as you're up for. And for "error theory" in history: Millgram, "Was Hume a Humean?"; for error theory more recently: Street, "A Darwinian Dilemma for Realist Theories of Value".
People are having access issues with the Engstrom photocopy, so here's the list of passages:
Reading: Goldstein and Gigerenzer, "The Recognition Heuristic" (online reserve).
Optional reading: Thompson, Life and Action, Part III ("Practical Generality").
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