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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

(On leave Spring 2010; William Evans Visitor at the University of Otago, New Zealand.)
 

Recent course syllabi

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

        (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 Other Ways of Paradox" (draft).

"Is Property Dualism Better Off than Substance Dualism?" (draft).

"A Simple Point about an Alleged Objection to Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness" (draft).

"The Puzzle of Regretted Parenthood" (draft).

"An Irenic Idea about Metaphor" (draft).

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

"Direct Arguments for the Truth-Condition Theory of Meaning" (forthcoming in Topoi).

"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, 2004).

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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