BARRY SMITH
    Courses Spring 1998
       
     

    HUSSERL (PHI 591)
    Graduate Seminar
     684 Baldy Tuesday 1:00-3:00

    Instructor: Barry Smith, Department of Philosophy (645-2444 ext. 7ll)
    E-mail: phismith@acsu.buffalo.edu

    Office hours: Tuesday 12:00-1:00 or by appointment.

    German Reading Group: Andreas Roser (andreasroser@hotmail.com)
    Listserv
    Listserv Archive
    Listserv Archive from Husserl course of Spring 1997
     

    PART ONE:

    1. Jan. 20 Introduction: The Phenomenological Movement. Overview of Husserl's Work
    2. Jan. 27 Logical Investigations
    3. Feb. 3 Logical Investigations
    4. Feb.10 Ideas I
    5. Feb. 17 Cartesian Meditations
    Feb. 24 No Class
    6. Mar. 3 The Crisis of European Sciences
    Mar. 10 SPRING BREAK: No Class

    PART TWO:

    7. Mar. 17 Student Presentations
    8. Mar. 24 Student Presentations
    9. Mar. 31 Student Presentations
    10. Apr. 7 Student Presentations
    11. Apr. 14 Student Presentations
    12. Apr. 21 Student Presentations
    13. Apr. 28 Student Presentations

       
    Course Description: The first part of the course will consist in lectures by BS on specific major works of Husserl. The second part of the course will consist of student presentations on these or on other Husserlian writings, including Philosophy of Arithmetic, Formal and Transcendental Logic, Experience and Judgment as well as the papers by Husserl collected in Elliston and McCormick (ed.), Husserl: Shorter Works and in Willard (ed.), Early Writings in Logic and the Philosophy of Mathematics. The text for the class is Smith and Smith (eds.), Cambridge Companion to Husserl. Other recommended reading includes: Willard, Logic and the Objectivity of Knowledge, Sokolowski, The Formation of Husserl's Concept of Constitution, Mohanty, Husserl and Frege, and Dreyfus (ed.), Husserl, Intentionality and Cognitive Science.
     

    Assessment: The grade for the course will be compounded out of four components: participation in class discussions, participation in listserv discussions throughout the semester, quality of oral class presentation, quality of written version of oral class presentation (deadline for submission: April 28).