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WGL's curriculum vitae.  (Contains links to online publications.)

 
Current course information

        Philosophy of mind

        Desire and Conation         

       

Recent course syllabi

         Metaphysics of Modality, Fall, 2007.     

(Honors) Introduction to Ethics, Fall, 2007.

Mind-Body Dualism, Spring, 2006.

First-Year Seminar, "Mind, Brain, and Consciousness."

Philosophy of Mind, Fall, 2004.

Philosophy of Mind (East Carolina University), Spring, 2004.

Introductory Symbolic Logic, Fall, 2003.

Reference and Meaning, Fall, 2003.

Literal and Conveyed Meaning (Colloquium for Philosophy Majors, Spring, 2003.

Skepticism and Contextualism; Virtue Epistemology, Spring 2002.

Science and Religion, Fall 2001  [with Philip Kitcher].

Introduction to Philosophy: Main Problems, Spring 2001.

Concepts, Spring 2001  [with Dorit Bar-On].
 
 

Some recent papers

"Giving Dualism its Due" (draft).

"The Puzzle of Regretted Parenthood" (draft).

"An Irenic Idea about Metaphor" (draft).

"On a Defense of the Truth-Condition Theory of Meaning" (draft).

"Phenomenal Intentionalities," forthcoming in American Philosophical Quarterly.

The Superiority of HOP to HOT,” an expanded version of a shorter paper that appeared in  Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness, ed. Rocco Gennaro (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins).

Perspectival Representation and the Knowledge Argument,” a greatly expanded version of a shorter article that appeared in Q. Smith and A.Jokic (eds.), Consciousness: New Philosophical Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003); reaches a different conclusion from that of the shorter paper.



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