Bas C. van Fraassen
PHI320 Lecture Outlines Fall 2000

LIST OF PHI320 LECTURE OUTLINES
Note: the following links are available only to students in the course

1. Conscious Reading
2. Narrative Structure
• A Map of the Study of Literature
• The Text
3. Form and Structure
4. Writer-Reader Interaction
5. Content and Interpretation
   The Real World: Truth, Falsity, and Assertion
6. Content and Interpretation, CONT'D
   • Historical and Social Context
   • Deconstructionism
7. Seeing philosophy in literature: Martha Nussbaum, "Love's Knowledge"
8. Freedom and Determinism
9. Identity and Self-Identity
   Outline of The Non-Existent Knight
   Views of the Self in The Non-Existent Knight
   The Empirical Self
10. The Will, Values, and Emotion
    John Barth, The Floating Opera as background
    Outline of John Barth, The End of the Road
    Barth: Masks and Roles
    Sartre on the Emotions
    
11. Self-Deception
Lagerkvist, The Dwarf
When is Self-deception?