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Freedom
and Determinism
CALENDAR OF CLASS DAYS FOR WINTER 2000 Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:00-4:15 HM 468 ["Assign" normally indicates readings for two classes later.] Introd: Pinker, to read in class. Handouts: INTRO & "Always Time to Kill" [Sartre, Frankl for Thurs.] Discuss INTRO and "Always Time to Kill [Assign Bhagavad Gita, Blue-Skinned God, etc.,for late next week.] Xavier Monasterio: Sartre, freedom, & the environment. [Assign: viewing of film Pixote by Monday.] Percio Castro on the Portuguese film, Pixote. [Assign first two acts of "The Infernal Machine."] Barnes: Discuss Bhagavad Gita, and Arrow of the Blue Skinned God, Islam - religious passivism Enrique Romaguera: on Jean Cocteau's play, the Infernal Machine [Assign readings from Augustine] Barnes: Written assignment
due; discussion. Background on Western thought? [Assign late medieval readings]
Maureen Tilley on Augustine and Predestination. [Assign Muslim texts.] John Inglis, late medieval arguments Muslim and Christian. [Assign Calvin] Barnes: on Islamic predestination Bill Trollinger, on Calvin and predestination (Arminianism?) Second written assignment due. Discussion of will of God & predestination. [Assign Mohist text, Cicero, Hume.] Barnes: intro to philosophies of freedom.
Paul Benson: David Hume's "compatibilism." [Assign last philosophy texts.] Marilyn Fischer: on Simone de Beauvoir, freedom and environment. Daniel Dennett on the notion of free will. End section on philosophy. [Assign readings in psychology] Spencer and Marx on the inevitability of history. (Bridge from philosophy to social science section) 3rd written assignment due. Discuss phils of freedom & determinism Mark Rye: psychology and freedom. Assign sociobiology [and anthropol] reading Paper Theme Statement Due SPRING BREAK
Randy Breitwisch: sociobiology. [Assign Piaget, Kohlberg, and Fowler] Barnes. On anthropology of material culture [Assign: cultural evolution.] Barnes on developmental theories: Piaget, Kohlberg, and Fowler Barnes on cultural evolution. FIRST DRAFT OF PAPER DUE (to be read and analyzed by a classmate, as assigned later) 4th written assignment due. Discussion of sociobiological, psychological, and cultural influences. Presentations by students on their papers
Easter Recess Last Class: review course; discuss outcomes. Preview final assignment. Exam week. Final exam due Friday, April 28 at noon, in
HM room 466
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