Instructor:
Jonathan D. Trigg Ph.D.
Office: HLG 561
Office telephone: (337) 482 1060
Office hours: Mon.
Wed.
E-mail: jon.trigg@louisiana.edu
Class
Time: Mon. Wed.:
Class Place: HLG 504
Assessment: Your
final grade will be made up of the following components:
Essay 1 33%
Essay 2 33%
Essay 3 33%
Each essay
will be 5-7 pages long. I will provide you with a list of titles for these
papers, and plenty of advice on how to complete them.
Grading
System
Attendance
and Class Policies
Attendance
will be recorded and may be taken into account in assigning final course grades
to students on the borderline between two grades. Good reasons for absence from
class include illness (requiring medical attention) and involvement in
significant university activities. I will deduct 2.5 marks a day from unexcused
late assignments. If you have a disability and require assistance with
fulfilling class assignments, don't hesitate to notify the instructor and the Office for Services to Students with
Disabilities at 482-5252. Finally, be sure you are familiar with all
university policies described in the UL
Lafayette Undergraduate Bulletin.
If you
miss class, for whatever reason, it is your responsibility to get class notes
from another student. Missed exams or other assignments can be made up only if
an appropriate excuse, e.g., illness requiring medical attention, participation
in certain official university events, etc., is provided. If you miss an
assignment due date, you must notify me within one week of the due date in
order to make up the assignment.
Anybody caught plagiarizing will fail the course, and will be reported to the University. It is incredibly easy to identify plagiarised passages in your written work. You must include full citations of any sources that you use – including page numbers of books and URL’s for websites.
Emergency
Evacuation Procedures
A map of
this floor is posted near the elevator marking the evacuation route and the
Designated Rescue Area. This is an area where emergency service personnel will
go first to look for individuals who need assistance in exiting the building.
Students who may need assistance should identify themselves to the teaching
faculty.
A course pack will be made available through Campus Copies (on St. Mary
next to P.J.’s coffee house), and detailed instructions about reading will be
given in class as we go along.
You can find a useful online resource to help with jargon and give
overviews of various topics at:
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/
The Stanford Encyclopaedia Of Philosophy is also a reliable online
resource – see, e.g.,
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-knowledge/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/
Course Outline
Guiding question: What is the self, and what is the nature of our
awareness or knowledge of it?