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Instr
uctor:
Dr. Lindsay Rettler
Time and Location:
Tues/Thurs 3:30-4:45 pm, Morrison 106
Contact:
lindsayrettler[at]gmail.com
Office Hours:
Tues 1:30-3:30 pm, Morrison 220
IMPORTANT DATES:
Critical Paper #1:
due by
Thurs Feb 11
(week 5)
Critical Paper #2
:
due by
Thurs March 3
(week 8)
Critical Paper #3
:
due by
Thus April 7
(week 13)
In Class Exam:
Tues April 19
(week 15)
RESOURCES:
A Philosophical Glossary for Beginners
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)
SEP on
Love
(by Bennett Helm)
SEP on
Marriage and Domestic Partnership
(by Elizabeth Brake)
PhilPapers
(a resource for finding philosophy articles and books on all kinds of topics)
COURSE SCHEDULE:
INTRODUCTION and SOME LOGIC
(weeks 1-2)
T 1/12
Syllabus, What is Flirting?
Optional
:
Carrie Jenkins - The Philosophy of Flirting (2006)
Optional
:
Daniel Nolan - The Varieties of Flirtatious Experience (2006)
Th 1/14
No Class
T 1/19
James Pryor:
What is an Argument?
How to
Read Philosophy
How to Write Philosophy
WHAT IS LOVE?
(weeks 2-3)
Th 1/21
Plato
- Symposium
(up through 198c)
T 1/26
Read the speeches of Socrates and Alcibiades in the
Symposium
(198d to the end)
Optional:
C.D.C. Reeve - Plato on Friendship and Eros
: contains a good discussion of the
Symposium
Optional
:
Martha Nussbaum - The Speech of Alcibiades (1979)
LOVE in FRIENDSHIP
(weeks 3-4)
Th 1/28
Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics,
Book VIII
, 1155a3 (p. 1825) to 1158a27 (p. 1830)
Optional
:
John Cooper - Aristotle on the Forms of Friendship (1979)
T 2/2
C.S. Lewis -
The Four Loves
, chapter 3: Affection (1960)
Optional:
C.S. Lewis - The Four Loves, chapter 1: Introduction; and chapter 2: Likings and Loves for the Sub-human
Th 2/4
C.S. Lewis -
The Four Loves,
chapter 4: Friendship (1960)
LOVE, RISK, and CONTROL
(weeks 5-7)
T 2/9
C.S. Lewis -
The Four Loves,
chapter 5: Eros (1960)
Th 2/11
LAST DAY TO TURN IN CRITICAL PAPER #1
Annette Baier - Unsafe Loves (1991)
T 2/16
C.S. Lewis -
The Four Loves
, chapter 6: Charity
Th 2/18
David Foster Wallace - This is Water
(audio speech of roughly 20 min)
T 2/23
Tom Crisp - Jesus and Affluence (2011)
, pp. 1-23
Th 2/25
Crisp, pp. 23-29
WHAT IS SEX?
(week 8)
T 3/1
Alan Goldman - Plain Sex (1977)
Th 3/3
LAST DAY TO TURN IN CRITICAL PAPER #2
William May - Four Mischievous Theories of Sex (2007)
(week 9)
T 3/8
No Class - Spring Break
Th 3/10 No Class - Spring Break
MARRIAGE
(weeks 10-11)
T 3/15
Bryan Weaver and Fiona Woolland - Marriage and the Norm of Monogamy (2008)
Th 3/17 DEBATE!
For Marriage
:
Mike Martin - Love's Constancy (1993)
Optional:
John Finnis - Marriage: A Basic and Exigent Good (2008)
Against Marriage:
Dan Moller - An Argument Against Marriage (2003)
Optional:
Emma Goldman - Marriage and Love (1914)
Optional:
Claudia Card - Against Marriage and Motherhood (1996)
T 3/22
Alexander Pruss - Not Out of Lust, but in Accordance with Truth (2003)
Th 3/24
Q&A with special guest, Dr. Alexander Pruss
OBJECTIFICATION
(week 12)
T 3/29
Martha Nussbaum - Objectification (1995)
, pp. 249-271
Th 3/31
Nussbaum, pp. 271-291
PORNOGRAPHY
(week 13)
T 4/5
Michael Rea - What is Pornography? (2001)
, pp. 118-134
Th 4/7
LAST DAY TO TURN IN CRITICAL PAPER #3
Class moved to 6:00pm: Dinner Party at my home. See email for details.
RAPE AND CONSENT
(weeks 14-15)
T 4/12
No Class - Baylor's Diadeloso
Th 4/14
Lois Pineau - Date Rape: A Feminist Analysis (1996)
T 4/19
Larry May and Robert Strikwerda - Men in Groups: Collective Responsibility for Rape (2014)
Th 4/21
IN CLASS EXAM
LOVE & TINDER and SEX & FOOD
(weeks 15-16)
T 4/26
Nancy Jo Sales - Tinder and the Dawn of the Dating Apocalypse''
(Vanity Fair)
Damon Linker - Love and Sex in the Age of Tinder
(The Week)
Th 4/28
Mary Eberstadt - Is Food the New Sex?
?
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