Teaching Documents by Aubrey Spivey
The primary aim of this course is to develop philosophical writing skills. This means developing ... more The primary aim of this course is to develop philosophical writing skills. This means developing skills in reading, interpreting, and evaluating philosophical arguments. You will also develop basic logic, argument formation, and writing clearly. In developing these skills, we will primarily focus on written assignments culminating in a final paper. This is a session B course which means we will be moving through the material at a quick pace. The topics covered in this course are organized into 4 main areas: metaphysics, epistemology, normative ethics, and prison ethics. This course fulfills the general studies L requirement and as such will be reading and writing intensive. Course Requirements Text: There is no required text for this course. All readings and course materials will be available via Canvas. Technology: Access to Canvas site via a web browser (Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Safari). If you choose to access the course through the Canvas app, know that some features, such as accessing comments, are not always available.
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The primary aim of this course is to examine existentialist literature and philosophical ideas. T... more The primary aim of this course is to examine existentialist literature and philosophical ideas. To do this we will use the global COVID-19 pandemic to access perspectives on the central existentialist topics of absurdity, anxiety, fear, death, hope, and the human condition. In this course we will have readings by Simone De Beauvoir, W.E.B. Du Bois, Albert Camus, Frantz Fanon, Søren Kierkegaard, Fredrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and some assorted poetry. This course will touch on some very difficult topics including racism, sexism, death, and suicide. Please be warned that while these subject matters will be handled with care this course may be difficult for some. This is both a heavy reading and writing course.
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The primary aim of this course is to develop philosophical writing skills. T... more Course Description:
The primary aim of this course is to develop philosophical writing skills. This means developing skills in reading, interpreting, and evaluating philosophical arguments. You will also develop basic logic, argument formation, and writing clearly. In developing these skills we will primarily focus on written assignments culminating in a final paper. This is a session B course which means we will be moving through the material at a quick pace. The topics covered in this course are organized into 4 main areas: metaphysics, epistemology, normative ethics, and prison ethics. This course fulfills the general studies L requirement and as such will be reading and writing intensive.
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Book Reviews by Aubrey Spivey
REASON PAPERS: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies, 2018
In Why Honor Matters, Tamler Sommers argues for reviving honor culture as a means to reduce many ... more In Why Honor Matters, Tamler Sommers argues for reviving honor culture as a means to reduce many of the social ills we face today. A.C. Spivey’s review examines Sommers’s arguments, in particular how a revived honor culture might have an impact on the criminal justice system. Spivey finds several theoretical and practical problems in Sommers’s account, but argues that the book is still worth reading, at least in part, because of the case it makes for restorative justice.
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Women in Pragmatism: Past, Present and Future, 2022
I argue in this chapter that we should not be quick to dismiss Hilary Putnam's account of truth a... more I argue in this chapter that we should not be quick to dismiss Hilary Putnam's account of truth as (idealized) rational acceptability. Putnam defends the view that the role values play in facts and vice versa. What I argue for here does not amount to a full-blooded defense of Putnam's account, but of an important component of a pragmatist theory of truth more generally. I defend the value of usability as particularly important and show how Jane Addams and subsequent feminist philosophers argue for an emphasis on implementation. In this I adopt the pragmatist tradition of seeing what is true as tied to our epistemic aims. My defense of the value of usability provides a defense against objections like those raised by Hartry Field and reveals a startling claim: on some pragmatist theories of truth, a theory can be true despite having counterexamples! I then entertain some objections to this claim, to which I will respond before briefly looking at the historical resistance to pragmatism.
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Teaching Documents by Aubrey Spivey
The primary aim of this course is to develop philosophical writing skills. This means developing skills in reading, interpreting, and evaluating philosophical arguments. You will also develop basic logic, argument formation, and writing clearly. In developing these skills we will primarily focus on written assignments culminating in a final paper. This is a session B course which means we will be moving through the material at a quick pace. The topics covered in this course are organized into 4 main areas: metaphysics, epistemology, normative ethics, and prison ethics. This course fulfills the general studies L requirement and as such will be reading and writing intensive.
Book Reviews by Aubrey Spivey
Papers by Aubrey Spivey
The primary aim of this course is to develop philosophical writing skills. This means developing skills in reading, interpreting, and evaluating philosophical arguments. You will also develop basic logic, argument formation, and writing clearly. In developing these skills we will primarily focus on written assignments culminating in a final paper. This is a session B course which means we will be moving through the material at a quick pace. The topics covered in this course are organized into 4 main areas: metaphysics, epistemology, normative ethics, and prison ethics. This course fulfills the general studies L requirement and as such will be reading and writing intensive.