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William G. Lycan
 

E-mail:  ujanel@isis.unc.edu

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Curriculum vitae.  (Contains links to online publications.)

 
Current course information

        (Honors) Introduction to Ethics, Fall, 2009.

       Philosophy of Mind (with Laurie Paul), Fall, 2009.

Recent course syllabi

        (Honors) Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Spring, 2009.

        (Honors) Introduction to Ethics, Fall, 2008.

        Philosophy of Mind (with Jesse Prinz), Fall, 2008.

         Philosophy of Mind, Spring, 2008

        Desire and Conation, Spring, 2008

        Metaphysics of Modality and Nonexistence, Fall, 2007.

        Mind-Body Dualism, Spring, 2006.

        Introduction to Ethics, Spring, 2006.

First-Year Seminar, "Mind, Brain, and Consciousness," Fall, 2005.

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
"The Puzzle of Regretted Parenthood" (draft).

"An Irenic Idea about Metaphor" (draft).

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

"A Truth Predicate in the Object Language," draft for a projected volume ed. by Gerhard Preyer.

"Giving Dualism its Due," forthcoming in Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

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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