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
The Philosophy, Linguistics and Ethics of Lying
(UConn), Fall 2014.
Idealism
(UNC, with
Thomas Hofweber
), Spring 2013.
Literal and Conveyed Meaning
(UConn), Fall 2012.
Philosophy of Music
(FYS, UNC Music Department, with
Jon Finson
), Spring 2011.
Consciousness Seminar
(UNC-Duke), Fall 2010.
Metaphysics of Mind
(UNC, with
Laurie Paul
), Fall 2009.
(Honors) Introduction to Mathematical Logic
, Spring 2009.
Philosophy of Mind
(UNC, with
Jesse Prinz
), Fall 2008.
Desire and Conation (UNC)
, Spring 2008.
Metaphysics of Modality and Nonexistence (UNC)
, Fall 2007.
Mind-Body Dualism (UNC)
, Spring 2006.
About
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C.V.