Published by Stephen Neale on 07 Sep 2012 at 10:35 am
Teaching
Seminars
2015
Spring
Language and Metaphysics
Fall
Thesis Writing
2014
Fall
Objects of Interpretation: Issues in the Philosophy of Archaeology
2013
Spring
Mind and Language: Foundations of Meaning (co-taught with Stephen Schiffer)
2012
Fall
Proseminar (co-taught with Iakovos Vasiliou)
Spring
Interpretive Practices in Language, Art & Law (co-taught with Noel Carroll)
2011
Fall
Proseminar (co-taught with Jesse Prinz)
Spring
Linguistic Pragmatism
2010
Fall
Proseminar (co-taught with David Rosenthal)
Spring
Intention and Interpretation (co-taught with Noel Carroll)
2009
Spring
Philosophy of Language
2008
Fall
Semantics and Pragmatics (co-taught with Stephen Schiffer)
Spring
Philosophy of Law
2007
Fall
Meaning (co-taught with Michael Devitt)
Past Courses at Rutgers University
Summer 2007
Philosophy of Language
Description: Intensive two-week course for PPE students at Bifröst University, Iceland. Topics selected from: proper names; definite descriptions; indexicality; anaphora; syntax-semantics distinction; semantics-pragmatics distinction; implicature; speech acts; meaning and intention; meaning and truth; indeterminacy of translation, rule-following. (312.2.0 Heimspeki tungumálsins.)
2006
Fall
Theories of Interpretation
Description: Graduate seminar co-taught with Professor Peter Kivy. Theories of linguistic, literary, and legal interpretation. Focus on the role of intention, the nature of underspecification and indeterminacy, and explicit vs implicit content.
The Greeks
Description: Seminar in the University Honors Program. Examination of the expression of moral concepts in Greek epic, tragedy, comedy and philosophical dialogue. Besides the Greek authors themselves: Bernard Williams’ Shame and Necessity and E.R. Dodds The Greeks and the Irrational. (Admission only through Honors Program office.)
Socrates and Plato
Description: Undergraduate lecture course. Emphasis on Plato’s early dialogues, esp. Euthyphro, Apology and Crito, then on Phaedo, Republic, and Symposium. Brief comparison of Plato’s Socrates with the figures portrayed by Aristophanes and Xenophon. (01-730-301. Major credit for Philosophy, Classical Humanities, Greek, Latin, or Greek and Latin.)
Summer
Logic
Description: Intensive two-week course for PPE students at Bifröst University, Iceland. The languages of propositional logic and first-order predicate logic; methods of deduction; logical form. (302.2.0 Rökfræði)
Spring
Anaphora
Description: Graduate seminar in the Department of Linguistics, co-taught with Professor Ken Safir. The syntactic and semantic natures of cross-reference, coreference, binding, coconstrual, and ellipsis.
2005
Fall
Socrates and Plato
Description: Undergraduate lecture course. Emphasis on Plato’s early dialogues, esp. Euthyphro, Apology and Crito, then on Phaedo, Republic, and Symposium. Brief comparison of Plato’s Socrates with the figures portrayed by Aristophanes and Xenophon. (01-730-301. Major credit for Philosophy, Classical Humanities, Greek, Latin, or Greek and Latin.)
Proseminar
Description: Graduate seminar co-taught with Professor Colin McGinn. Intensive introduction to key analytic work in philosophy through the writings of Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Kripke, and Davidson. Restricted to first-year graduate students in the Department of Philosophy.
2004
Fall
Philosophy of Language
Description: Undergraduate lecture course. Topics selected from: proper names; definite descriptions; indexicality; anaphora; syntax-semantics distinction; semantics-pragmatics distinction; implicature; speech acts; meaning and intention; meaning and truth; indeterminacy of translation, rule-following. (01-730-420 Major credit for Philosophy or Linguistics.)
Meaning and Context
Description: Graduate seminar co-taught with Professor John Hawthorne. Examination of formal systems for expressing contextual paramaters, the viability of forms of contextualism, forms of relativism, and linguistic pragmatism.
Spring
Reference
Description: Graduate seminar at NYU co-taught with Professor Stephen Schiffer. Examination of different notions of reference and of the semantics of names, descriptions, indexicals, demonstratives and anaphors.
2003
Fall
The Imagination
Description: Graduate seminar co-taught with Professor Colin McGinn. Examination of imagery, dreaming, illusion, madness, and the distinction between perception and imagination. Readings by Hume, Wittgenstein, Sartre, Budd, O’Shaughnessy, Pylyshyn, and others.
2001
Fall
Philosophical Logic
Description: Graduate seminar co-taught with Professor Colin McGinn. Central problems of philosophy involving truth, existence, quantification, and necessity.
Metaphysics
Description: Undergraduate lecture course. Topics selected from: the mind-body problem; freewill and determinism; personal identity; universals; facts and events; causation; essence; natural kinds. (01-730-415)
Spring
The Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction
Description: Graduate seminar co-taught with Professor Brian Loar. Readings by Austin, Carston, Grice, Loar, Neale, Recanati, Searle, Sperber and Wilson, and Travis. Emphasis on Linguistic Pragmatism and Relevance Theory.
2000
Fall
Philosophy of Language
Description: Undergraduate lecture course. Topics selected from: proper names; definite descriptions; indexicality; anaphora; syntax-semantics distinction; semantics-pragmatics distinction; implicature; speech acts; meaning and intention; meaning and truth; indeterminacy of translation, rule-following. (01-730-210 Major credit for Philosophy or Linguistics.)
1999
Fall
The Greeks
Description: Honors Seminar. Examination of the expression of moral concepts in Greek epic, tragedy, comedy and philosophical dialogue. Besides the Greek authors themselves: Bernard Williams’ Shame and Necessity and E.R. Dodds The Greeks and the Irrational. (Admission only through Honors Program office.)
Metaphysics
Description: Undergraduate lecture course. Topics selected from: the mind-body problem; freewill and determinism; personal identity; universals; facts and events; causation; essence; natural kinds. (01-730-415)