Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: CONSCIOUSNESS, CONSTRUCTIONISM, THE SUBJECT AND THE SOUL

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Taught in English. Is the subject a "construction"? Is consciousness a neurological event? Philosophy, religion and aesthetics in the face of cultural critique, cognitive science and post structuralism. (Mostly) short readings from Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Bataille, Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, cognitive science, philosophy of mind.