This year we will be reading Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception.
- Following our discussion of Animal Behaviour yesterday, here is a new paper from the journal Animal Behaviour with new findings on social behaviour and the use of mirrors by pigs. The paper was discussed in this article in the New York Times. (Nov. 10, 2009)
- Here is a link to an interesting BBC program from the Horizon series that examines several current approaches in neuroscience to the problem of consciousness and first-person experience. You can use the names given on the program to track down their publications if you want to explore these approaches further!
- Blackboard is now up and running for this course! Necessary information and all other things pertaining directly to the course will now only be posted there. I will continue to post items that I think may be helpful or interesting but are not explicitly related to the course on this page. (18/10/2009)
- For those who did not receive my email, the two readings for next week, “Cezanne’s Doubt” and “The Thinker and the Painter”, are available in my office (Cezanne’s Doubt is also in the library in the book Sense and Non-Sense). I will put the texts on Blackboard as soon as I am able. (30/09/2009)
- Here is the course handbook for 2009-10. I will update it as the secondary reading and presentations schedules are worked out.
- Here’s a podcast from National Public Radio in the US where the neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran explains How do you amputate a phantom limb? How might his findings relate to the theory of the lived-body that Merleau-Ponty presents in Phenomenology of Perception?
- Click here to download the page concordance for Phenomenology of Perception
- Here is Merleau-Ponty’s comprehensive table of contents for the Phenomenology of Perception translated into English (thanks to Ted Toadvine)