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Can we deceive ourselves?- Dozent/in
- Dr. phil. Fabian Geier
- Angaben
- [ps/hs]
2 SWS
Studium Generale
Zeit und Ort: Mi 14:00 - 16:00, U2/026
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- BA-Philosophie: Basismodul 2; Aufbaumodul 1; Vertiefungsmodul 1;
MA-Philosophie: Kernmodul 1; Schwerpunkte Praktische Philosophie u. Freie Spezialisierung;
LA-Philosophie: Basismodul 2, Vertiefungsmodul LA 4;
EWS-Modul 1+2;
- Inhalt
- The Idea of this Course
Being able to speak, read and write in English is pretty useful.
Nowadays many major discussions, not only in philosophy, are based in
the Anglo-Saxon world. One might say that you will not have studied any
subject well, if you have not read several texts in English. So why not
dedicate a whole seminar to this? The idea is that we work on a
particular discourse - the question of self-deception - in order to
practice our reading, writing and conversational skills. For this
purpose we will resort to a slower pace (yes, that means: we will not
read as much as in other seminars) and to writing several little written
assignments throughout the course. Everybody is welcome to try - I don't
expect experts, but the eagerness to improve oneself.
The Problem
The question of self-deception is indeed a puzzling one. If I deceive a
person, the whole point is that I know something that the deceived
person does not. So how can it be that we seem to be capable of
deceiving ourselves quite effectively? Doesn't that mean that we know
and don't know something at the same time? The texts we will be reading
are trying to disentangle this paradox.
How We Are Going to Proceed
The course will be based on Brian P. McLaughlin & Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
(Eds.). Perspectives on Self-Deception. University of California Press
1988. We will read one article in two weeks. In the first of the two
sessions we will mainly deal with language problems, read and sum up the
text together and do some exercises. The second session is then supposed
to be a genuinely philosophical discussion.
Für aktuelle Informationen siehe www.vulturis.de/doctrina
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Philosophie II
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