WILLIAM G. LYCAN
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2021-2022
     Philosophy of Mind, Fall
     Analysis and Ordinary Languuage (History of Analytic Philosophy), Spring

2020-2021
     1st-year Graduate Protoseminar, Fall
     Philosophy of Mind, Spring

2019-2020
      Philosophy of Mind, Fall
      Symbolic Logic II, Spring
       Hand-outs:
  • The System
  • Three hairier PL proofs
  • PL Metatheory
  • QL Metatheory
  • Undecidability of QL
  • Notes on Hughes & Cresswell's Chapter 2, Part I
  • Notes on Hughes & Cresswell's Chapter 2, Part II
  • Notes on Hughes & Cresswell's Chapter 2, Part III
  • Normal Modal Systems and the Accessibility Relation
  • S4 and S5
  • Completeness of our normal modal systems
  • Hughes & Cresswell's Chapter 13: Modal Predicate Logic
  • Notes on Epistemtic Logic (Rendsvig & Symons)
  • Introducing Relevance Logic

2018-2019
       Philosophy of Mind, Spring
       Moral Realism, Fall
       Hand-outs:
  • Taxonomy of Anti-Realisms
  • Lycan's Official Realist Doctrine
  • More on Moral Twin Earth
  • Blackburn on Grammar and Semantics
  • Fictions and Fictionalisms: Distinctions
  • Connecting the Explanatory Virtues to the World
  • A Harean Argument for Motivational Internalism
  • Garner on Objective Prescriptivism

2017-2018
       Analysis and Ordinary Language (History of Analytic Philosophy), Spring.
       Philosophy of Humor and Philosophy of Theater, Fall.

2016-2017
       Philosophy of Mind, Spring.    
       Language and Power, Fall.

2015-2016
     (Honors) Introduction to Ethics (UNC), Spring.
      Nonstandard Types of Mental Content (UNC, with Carla Merino-Rajme), Spring.  
     Philosophy of Music (UConn), Fall.

Other syllabi
  1. The Philosophy, Linguistics and Ethics of Lying (UConn), Fall 2014.
  2. Idealism (UNC, with Thomas Hofweber), Spring 2013.
  3. Literal and Conveyed Meaning (UConn),  Fall 2012.
  4. Philosophy of Music (FYS, UNC Music Department, with Jon Finson), Spring 2011.
  5. Consciousness Seminar (UNC-Duke), Fall 2010.
  6. Metaphysics of Mind (UNC, with Laurie Paul), Fall 2009.
  7. (Honors) Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Spring 2009.
  8. Philosophy of Mind (UNC, with Jesse Prinz), Fall 2008.
  9. Desire and Conation (UNC), Spring 2008.
  10. Metaphysics of Modality and Nonexistence (UNC), Fall 2007.
  11. Mind-Body Dualism (UNC), Spring 2006.
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