PHIL 740: Desire and Conation
Spring 2008

Syllabus

Documents

1.  Intentionality and Propositional Attitudes (background handout)  
2.  More on Stampe
3.  More on de Sousa
4.  Gordon on Categorical Imperatives, Possible Worlds, and Self-Presupposing Desires
5.  Sir Walter Raleigh's poem, "Even Such is Time"
6.  Matt Priselac's paper, "Distinctions among Desires and Motivation"
7.  Schueler vs. Williams on the Relation Between Justifying Reasons and Explanatory Reasons
8.  A review of Schueler, by Robert Noggle  
9.  Schueler's more recent book, Reasons and Purposes
10.  A review of the latter, by Chrisoula Andreou
11.  Schroeder's Philosophy Compass article on desire
12.  Leonard Katz's review of Schroeder
13.  Stanford Encyclopedia on "Pleasure"
14.  Canadian Philosophical Association symposium on Schroeder, papers by Paul Thagard and Ronnie de Sousa
15. A commentary by Andy Brook