SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
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1. CHANGES IN REQUIREMENTS FOR MINOR,
MAJOR, HONORS PROGRAMS
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2. NEW COURSE - PHIL 456-4 -
TWENTIETH CENTURY EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY
Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies
at its meeting of October 5, 1982 gives rise to the following motion:
MOTION:
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"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the
Board of Governors, as set forth in S.82
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112 , the
proposed changes in Philosophy for (1) minor program,
(2) major program, (3) honors program."
MOTION: ?
"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the
Board of Governors, as set forth in S.82-112 , the
proposed new course PHIL 456-4 - Twentieth Century
European Philosophy."
CALENDAR CHANGES: DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
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CHANGES IN REQUIREMENTS
PRESENT REQUIREMENTS:
Our departmental requirements are presently described as follows:
REQUIREMENTS FOR MINOR, MAJOR AND HONORS
Students pursuing a Minor in Philosophy must have at
least 15 hours of upper division Philosophy.; Students
pursuing a Major
in
Philosophy must have at least 30
• hours of upper division Philosophy. Students pursuing
an Honors degree must have at
least
50 hours of upper
division
Philosophy.
LOWER DIVISION REQUIREMENTS
MINOR, MAJOR AND HONORS STUDENTS
A.
At least two courses from the group: PHIL 100, 110,
120.
B. PHIL 203
C.
PHIL 210
UPPER DIVISION REQUIREMENTS
MINOR STUDENTS
At least five courses from the group number from PHIL
301 to 468.
MAJOR AND HONORS STUDENTS
A.
At least one course from the group: PHIL 301, 340,
455.
B.
At least one course from the group: PHIL 320, 321,
421.
C.
At least two courses from the group: PHIL 350, 353,
354, 355, 452, 453.
D.
In addition to the above required courses, Honors
students must take two Honors Tutorials in the last,
or last two, semesters of their Philosophy program.
The tutorials offer sufficient time to examine in
depth several philosophical topics in a general
area such as Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of
Mind, etc. The Honors candidate must achieve a
grade of B or higher in each Honors Tutorial to
receive the Honors degree.
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HONORS PROGRAM
An Honors Program is. offered for students interested
in advanced work in Philosophy. it is strongly
advised for students who plan to pursue a post-
graduate
degree in the subject.
PhStudents
ilosophy
proposing
must first
to
complete
enter
the
60
Honors
hours
Program
of university
in
course-work
including 12 hours of Philosophy and ful-
fill, the
lower
division requirements listed above in
the section 'Requirements for Minor, Major and Honors'.
A Grade Point Average of 3.0 or higher for all Philo-
sophy courses normally is expected for entrance and
gconuarantee
tinuation
either.
in
the
Students
program,
proposing
but does
to
not
enter
by itself
the
av
Honors
ailable
Program
in
the
must
Department
submit an
Office),
application
'and consult
(a
form
the
is
Department's
U
ndergraduate Adviser. After one semes-
ter of
c
ourse-work in the Honors Program a candidate
must, in consultation with 'the Undergraduate Adviser,
devise a program of studies. Consideration of the
app
lication and proposed program of Studies will be
based on the Department's assessment of the student's
P ot
ential for advanced work.
NEW REQUIREMENTS.
We propose to substitute the following:
REQUIREMENTS FOR A MINOR IN PIIILOSOPIIY
1. The
r
equirement for a minor is 8 philosophy
courses including at least 5 upper division
Courses.
2. Students wishing a core program for the minor
Should
take:
A.
At least one of PHI!, 100,
PHIL
110
B.
PHIL 120
C.
PHIL 203 and PHIL 301
D. At
least
four additional upper division
Courses
3. With the help of the
u
ndergraduate adviser, a
student may design a minor program with an
emphasis that Complements a special interest. For
e
xample, programs may be designed for students
with an interest in law, language, natural or
social science, history of ideas, social theory,'
value theory and logic.
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REQUIREMENTS FOR A MAJOR
IN PHILOSOPHY
Students pursuing a Major must complete the following
requirements:
A. PHIL 100 and PHIL 120
B.
PHIL 203 and PHIL 301
C. PHIL 210
D.
At least one course from the ethics group; PHIL
320, PHIL 321, PHIL 421
E. At least one of PHIL 341, PHIL 343, PHIL 344
F.
At
least
two courses from the history group: PHIL
350, PHIL 353, PHIL 354, PHIL 355, PHIL 452, PHIL 453
C. At least thirty hours of upper division philosophy
in total.
REQUIREMENTS FOR HONORS IN PHILOSOPHY
An Honors Program
is offered for students interested
in advanced work in Philosophy. It is strongly advised
for students who plan to pursue a post-graduate degree
in the subject.
Students proposing to enter the Honors Program in Phil-
osophy must first complete 60 hours of university
course-work including 12 hours of Philosophy, and ful-
fill the requirements A, B and C listed above
in section
'Requirements for a Major in
Philosophy'.
A Grade. Point
Average
of 3.0 or higher for
all
Philosophy courses
normally is expected for entrance and continuation in
the program, but does not by
itself
guarantee either.
Students proposing to enter the Honors Program must sub-
mit an application (a form is available in the Depart-
ment Office), and consult the Department's Undergraduate
Adviser. After one semester of course-work in the Honors
Program a candidate must, in consultation with the Under-
graduate adviser, devise a program of studies. Consider-
ation of the application and proposed program of studies
will be based on the Department's assessment of the
student's potential for
advanced work.
Students pursuing Honors must in addition:
A.
Fulfill the requirements for a Major in Philosophy.
B. Complete at least fifty hours of upper division
Philosophy in total.
C. Take two Honors Tutorials in the last, Or last two,
semesters of the Philosophy program.. The tutorials
offer sufficient time to examine in depth several
philosophical topics in a general area such as Ethics,
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, etc. The Honors
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candidate must achieve a grade of B or higher
in
each
Honors Tutorial to receive the Honors degree.
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RATIONALE
1. MINOR PROGRAM
(a) ?
We would like to have students free to follow their interests and
be awarded a minor on the basis of their having taken a minimum
number of courses. We see no particular reason to demand that all
students taking a minor in Philosophy complete the core program.
We do not regard a minor as a certificate of competence. We regard
it merely as certifying an area of minor concentration.
(b) ?
The core program has been amended somewhat.
(i)
We have added PHIL 301, Epistemology, because the recent
change in PHIL 203 from a course in Metaphysics and Episte-
mology to a course in Metaphysics effectively eliminated
the intermediate study of Epistemology from the core pro-
gram. The addition of PHIL 301 does not represent a change
in the program's content.
(ii)
We have deleted PHIL 210, Elementary Formal Logic, because
it intimidates
some students. Its elimination, together
with the addition of PHIL 301, ensures that the core program
requires no more courses than before.
(iii)
We have emphasized PHIL 120, Facts and Values, because, while
there is some overlap
in
the content of the other courses
listed, PHIL 120 is the only course in Ethics.
(c) The mention of special minor programs is intended to alert students
with special interests outside of Philosophy to the idea of comple-
menting their interests with a philosophy minor.
2. MAJOR PROGRAM
(a) ?
Requirement A:
(i)
Since PHIL 120 is the most germane of the recommended prere-
quisites for the upper division ethics courses, and since we
require a major to take one upper division ethics course, we
would be sensible to require PHIL 120 of all our majors.
(ii)
Rather than to allow either PHIL 110 or PHIL 100 to fulfill a
requirement, it is preferable simply to require PHIL 100.
PHIL 100, Knowledge and Reality, is a better introduction to
the discipline, especially given that
PHIL
110 is largely
satisfied by tests that do not foster writing skills. PHIL
110, Introduction to Philosophical Concepts and Reasoning,
does foster logical skills, but PHIL 210, Elementary Formal
Logic, is required of all majors in any case.
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(b) ?
Requirement B:
Until recently, we have required that all Majors complete an inter-
mediate level metaphysics and epistemology course, namely PHIL 203.
However, PHIL 203 is to become a course in
me
taphysics when the
to
1982-3
our
calendar
r
equirements
takes
for
effect.
all Majors.
Accordingly,
With the
we
new
have
calendar.
added PHIL
PHIL
301
301 will be our intermediate epistemology course.
(c) Requirements c,
D, F
and C:
No change has been made except that the lettering of the require-
ments has been changed.
(d)
Requirement E:
Requirement E (that a Major take one of PHIL 341 (science), PHIL
343 (mind) and PHIL 344 (Language I)) replaces the old requirement
that a major take one of PHIL 301 (Topics in Epistemology and Meta-
physics,
(
Con
temporary
now to
Issues
be
E
pistemology),
in Epistemology
PHIL
and
340
Metaphysics).
(Methods), and
Given
PHIL
that
455
ment
PHIL
will
301 is
au
to
tomatically
be required
be met
in
any
by all
event
majors.
under
Accordingly,
B, the old require-it
seems sensible to drop the old
r
equirement. The courses named in
the new requirement have in Common that they address central philo-
sophical problems which ought to be studied by Majors.
3. HONORS PROGRAM
These requirements are unchanged except as is necessary in order that they
mesh appropriately with the' recommended requirements for a major.
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COURSE PEO?OSM. FOR1
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Philosophy
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tudez:
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Credit Hours:
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Vector: 2-2-0
Ut I of Couce
Twentieth Century Euronean Philosophy
Cnieitdx Description of Course:
A study of the development of philosophical movements
such as Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics, Structuralism and Kulturphilosophie.
Readings will be from two or mOre representative figures such as Husserl, Ileidegger,
Sartre, Foucault, Derrida and Ilabermas.
Nature of Course
Lecture/Tutorial
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
PHIL 452 recommended
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved: Ilone
2. Scheduling
Raw frequently will the course be offered?
once in six semesters
Semester in which the course will first be offered? 83-3
Which
of your present faculty would be available to rake the proposed offering
possible?
Professor ¶fietz
Rationale for
eeco the Course
The content of this course has been taught in variable topic courses, such as PHIL
435
and PHIL
455,
and there has been sufficient student interest to warrant its introduction
as a permanent course.
4. Budgetary and Space Requirements (for
Information
only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
None
Stnff
None
Library
None
Audi- Visual
None
Space
Hone
Equiptent
None
5. Approval
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SAMPLE COURSE DESCRIPTION
PHILOSOPHY
456-1
Twentieth C€'rit'ri European Philosophy
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Heidegger and Foucault: Histors and Deconstruction
This co'e
will
he rJivi.ie'l between I idtgger's BEING AND TIME and
Foucault's THE
ORDER OF THINGS (with introductory Material from
his
HISTORY OF SEXUALITY, vol'..'tw
1). The emphasis will be on
Hermeneutics and Historicism and who these movements deal with the
traditional philso
p hicil problems of persoiit,00d, knowledge and
.ietaphjsics, and with the id'a that there is a "tradition" of
philosophical
problems which underlie rational in q uiry * The
structure of culture is seen h Foucault a the broadest possible was
to approach the
q
uestion of whj we have the intellectual, social,
Moral, political,
Medical, aesthetic tTd'.iit,iOi.5 we do. What is a
"structure"? Who is it best to see persons as part of cultural
development rather than as ehistor iczil ijj..,covej'ers
truth? Where did that image of man cone fi'uti and how does it work?
Heidegger is more concerned with the concept of a person and how it
is related to
that of a "world". lie attacks Reali'.M, essentialism
and traditional metaphysics (including its current tian,ifestatior, as
philosophy of lan
g ua
ge) as ret,t. i ,,g on an ontolo g ical distinction
(between Thought and Being)
which grew o'..'l
of Plato and which has
caused Most of the trouble.; of western culture. What is the
connection, between Iieidejger 's criticism or culture through
p
ersorihood and or,tolo'jj, and Foi'cault' s
g
lobal deconstructior, or
social institutions?
COOKS
Required
Martin Heidegcjer BEING AND TIME
Michel Foucault. ?
THE ORDER OF THINGS
Michel Foucault
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THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY, vol. 1
Recommended and on Reserve
William Barrett
THE ILLUSION OF
TECHNIQUE
Michael Murray
IIEIDEGGER
AND MODERN
PHILOSOPHY
(anthology)
Michel Foucault
THE
ARCHEOLOGY
OF KNOWLEDGE
Michael Gelvins
A COMMENTARY ON
IIEIDECCER'S BEING AND TIME
COURSE REflUIREMENTS
One (3-10 page paper or ?
lidegger
15Z of final
grade
One 0-10 page paper
on Foucault
SZ of
final
grade
Ca; discussion
10Z of final grade
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Outline for Possible Offerin
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of P t v i -1(3-5 0 0 1 4
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HEIDEGGER AND FOUCAULT: HISTORY ANT) DrcowsTrtJcTIOu
WEEI : ?
(WEE}- 2 two-hoi_'r
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ions )
I.
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Background arid Review Hegel, Historici, Neoritiariiti
(readin g
s from Ericclopedia of Philoph)
II. BEING AND TIME (the two Irstrod'ictioi'is and sec.'s 9-13)
A.
Hermeneutics arid interpretation
1. Hermeneutic circle
B.
Daseiri, "world", "horizuis" persorihoa'J arid the image of
discovers
Co Natur and Geisteswitrischarteri-
III. Selfhood, Representation and Truth (sec.
's
14-24,26,29-33,38)
A. Criticism of Cartesian corsiouriess
Be Humanit
t
j with out an esseisce
1. Criticism of Iaritiari srithesi
2 • Daseiri as persorshoo..i without representational
real ism
IV. "Care" and Truth (sec.'s 39-11, 43, 'II)
A.
Arsxietj, Mood, Disclosure?
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1. What is philosophi about? N€'.'tral ansaltical
Matrix vs
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herMenicutical interpretation
B.
Truth as about the &;<terrial world
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how did we cone to
this view?
1.
How did Thoiiyht and F
.
.'eirol become separate?
2.
Being
vs.
the bei,ig-uf4.eiricis.
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Orat1ocjtg vs.
Metaphsics
V.
Death as a philsophical concept (sec.'s 46-33)
A.
Tolsto's Death of Ivan Ilitch
B.
Disruption and breakdowns: applications to the histor
of the west
VI-Vil. Autheruticiti and Understandin
g
(sec.'s 511--66)
A.
Hermeneutics as tririq to he "uriphilosophical". What
did the tradition of philosophical thinking tell us
about knowledge?
B.
Understandin
g
(sec.'s 67-71)
1.
Darkening world: technolog and science as
"forgetful" of Being
2.
S'3MbolS of Being as the structure of thou g ht in
the
,ietaphsical tradition
3.
Is
the end of Metaphsics the end of thinking?
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VIII-IX. Foucault
A.
Look
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at
THE
the sMbols,
HISTORY OF
see
SEXUALITY
how the constitute culture
B.
Power as the subject of philosophy, but riot as a
substitute for substance
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C.
Nietzsche and the GENEOLOGY 01 1101ALS as
it
model for
deconstruction. What does i.',tor'j studj?
D.
Urit % j
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of knowledge: How do wo establish what it
it;
we
want to know?
Epistemolo
g
ti
v. Hermeneutics
I • Pastoral and confetsioIRii '.tructure of kr,owlicie
and of western societg
2. The repression hpotheti
E.
Bjo-politics,
E:io-power
F • Influence of Heidegger
's "disclosure" view of truth or.
Foucault
X.
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Humanity without art
e ence---everjthir.'
without an essence
THE ORDER OF THINGS chapter's 1 arid 2
A.
The writing of thin
g
s. The rtetworP.
of
power, detire and
management
B.
The Metaphor of Velasque?: LAS MENINASI Where i Lhe
self, where is power?
Co What Made the idea of Re
p
ieseistation work.? Case sti.iij ?
of the "Classical period" (17th and 10th CeriLuri*)
XI. "Man and his Doubles": THE ORDER OF THINGS, chapter 9
A. Nietzsche's attack. on slfhuo'J,
influence on Foucault
B. What is "interpretation"?
1.
Stud'3 of language, differ'rice from Arialtic
Philosph
2.
"Science
of Mar,"
in
the Classical period.
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"Mechanisms" of knowle'lje. Mari as art object of
knowledge and as the subject who knows
C. The "Discourse on Lanig&.'ace" arid THE
ARCHEOLOGY or
KNOWLEDGE
D. Subjectivittj and essentialism; objective/suhectjve arid
relativism. Criticisms from Ar,alstic Philooph'j
XII, ORDER OF THINGS, chapter 10: The H'.'mar. Scien.cet
A.
Pschoarialsis and Freud
B.
Linguistics as the "interior" of larsci'ia'e, as the
"represenitation of mar.". Contrast; with Ar.al'jtjc
Philosoph
1.
O'.in.e, Davidson, Sellars
2.
Realism and Idealism
Co
the
Historj
basis
as
for
the
self
content
-imagination
of "thø'..sijht"
in
Foucault.
in lie
and
i
r
kcjcjcr , as
1.
What concepts arid imaq€s are
iniVC)lVe'1
what maket
art historical self-image possible?
2.
I am what I think about the past
XII. The New
Historicism
A.
Hermeneutics and the
"Whiggish"
view of tiistor
B.
Rort, PHILOSOPHY AND THE MIRROR OF NATURE, chapters VII
and VIII
C.
Hermeneutics and the Geisteswi'ser.sctiaften: riot a new
dualism. Heidegger and the iisterpretiveress of Daseins.
Foucault and the iriterpretiveress of culture
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