READING ASSIGNMENTS

Phil 4830-001
"Life, Death, and Meaning"
Spring 2009

Our next reading assignment will be in bold and in a large font.

I'll try to keep this up to date, with new reading assignments posted at least two weeks in advance.
FIFTEENTH WEEK
Camus, The Plague
FOURTEENTH WEEK

Apr. 21: Parfit, "Reasons and Persons" (JMF, 193)

Apr. 23: Feldman, "Some Puzzles About the Evil of Death" (JMF, 307)

THIRTEENTH WEEK
Apr. 14: NO NEW READING - but it might be good to review the first Rosenbaum essay.

Apr. 16: Pitcher, "The Misfortunes of the Dead" (JMF, 159)

TWELVTH WEEK
Apr. 7: Luper-foy, "Annihilation" (JMF, 269)

Apr. 9: Rosenbaum, "Epicurus and Annihilation" (293)

ELEVENTH WEEK
Mar. 31: Williams, "The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality" (JMF, 73)

Apr. 2: Nagel, "Death" (JMF, 61)

TENTH WEEK
Mar. 17: Rosenbaum, "How to be dead and not care" (JMC, 59)
Note the new anthology... John Martin Fischer, The Metaphysics of Death, referred to as JMC.
Guest lecturer will be Chris Heathwood.

Mar. 19: Dostoevsky, "The Grand Inquisitor"
http://arthursclassicnovels.com/arthurs/dostoevsky/inqus10.html

AND Unamuno, "Saint Manuel, the Good, Martyr"
http://www4.gvsu.edu/wrightd/SPA%20307%20Death/SaintManuelBueno.htm

NINTH WEEK
Mar. 10: Edwards, "The Meaning and Value of Life" (K&C, 114)

Mar. 12: Edwards CONTINUED

EIGHTH WEEK
Mar. 3: Schopenhauer, "On the Sufferings of the World" (K&C, 45)

Mar. 5: Schlick, "On the Meaning of Life" (K&C, 62)

SEVENTH WEEK
Feb. 24: Feinberg, "Absurd Self-Fulfillment" (K&C, 153)

Feb. 26: Feinberg continued (No new reading - This is a realy long article.)

SIXTH WEEK
Feb. 17: Thomas Nagel, "The Absurd" (K&C, 143)

AND finishing up Jeff Gordon's "The Triumph of Sisyphus"

Feb. 19: GUEST LECTURER

FIFTH WEEK
Feb. 10: Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus" (K&C, 72)
AND
Jeffrey Gordon, "The Triumph of Sisyphyus" (A pdf file will be circulated.)

Feb. 12: Taylor, "The Meaning of Life" (K&C, 134)

FOURTH WEEK
Tue., Feb. 3: Russell, "A Free Man's Worship" (K&C, 55)

Thu., Feb. 5: Baier, "The Meaning of Life" (K&C, 82-4, 99-111, skipping section 1)

THIRD WEEK
Tue., Jan 27: Klemke, "Living Without Appeal" (K&C, 184)

Thu., Jan. 29: Nozick, "Philosophy and the Meaning of Life" (K&C, 224)

SECOND WEEK

Tue., Jan. 20: Tolstoy, selection from My Confession (Klemke & Cahn [K&C], 7)
            and Pojman, "Religion Gives Meaning to Life" (K&C, 27)

Thu., Jan 22: Fackenheim, "Judaism and the Meaning of Life" (K&C, 31)
            and Quinn, "The Meaning of Life According to Christianity" (K&C, 35)

FIRST WEEK

Tue., Jan. 13: Pascal, selections from his Pensées

Thu., Jan. 15: Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Iyich