Jeff Speaks: Courses

	fall	spring
this year	On leave.	On leave.
2014-15	PHIL 43916: Natural language semantics An introduction to compositional semantics	PHIL 10100: Introduction to philosophy The existence of God; the nature of persons; the question of what is real; ethics
2013-14	PHIL 13195: Honors philosophy seminar	PHIL 20229: Paradoxes Paradoxes of space & time, metaphysics, theology, rationality, and logic PHIL 20801: Philosophy of religion (summer) The existence of God; the rationality of religious belief; problems in philosophical theology
2012-13	PHIL 43916: Natural language semantics An introduction to compositional semantics	PHIL 20810: Philosophical theology The attributes of God; the trinity; the incarnation; the atonement; original sin; life after death.
2011-12	PHIL 13195: Honors philosophy seminar PHIL 83104: Proseminar A brief history of the 20th century + recent work on analyticity and the a priori	PHIL 20229: Paradoxes Paradoxes of space & time, metaphysics, theology, ethics, decision theory, and logic PHIL 93507: Topics in the philosophy of mind: Perception The metaphysics of phenomenal properties
2010-11	On leave.	On leave.
2009-10	PHIL 13195: Honors philosophy seminar God, freedom, personal identity, time, & ethics PHIL 93507: Topics in the philosophy of mind: Perception	PHIL 10100: Introduction to philosophy The existence of God, free will, dualism vs. materialism vs. idealism, & ethics PHIL 20229: Paradoxes Paradoxes of physics, metaphysics, theology, decision theory, and logic PHIL 96697: Directed readings in semantics
2008-9	PHIL 10100: Introduction to philosophy Personal identity, God, knowledge, and ethics PHIL 13195: Honors philosophy seminar	PHIL 10100: Introduction to philosophy The existence of God, minds & persons, the relation of mind to world, & ethics PHIL 43503: Philosophy of action Intentional action, believing at will, free will, agent causation, and the compatibility of free will with determinism & divine foreknowledge
2007-8	PHIL 13195: Honors philosophy seminar PHIL 43904: The origins of analytic philosophy Philosophy in England 1893-1936	PHIL 20229: Paradoxes PHIL 93914: Philosophy of language Metaphysics of propositions & the foundations of meaning
2006-7	PHIL 13195: Honors philosophy seminar PHIL 20208: Minds, brains, and persons The mind/body problem, personal identity, & immortality	PHIL 13185: Philosophy university seminar The design argument and the problem of evil PHIL 93515: Language and mind Introduction to semantics, two-dimensionalism, & theories of content
At McGill:
	fall	winter
2005-6	PHIL 682: Proseminar on Meaning co-taught with Jim McGilvray	PHIL 201: Introduction to Philosophy PHIL 515: Perception & Intentionality Intentionalism, the nature of perceptual content, phenomenal character
2004-5	PHIL 370: Problems in Analytic Philosophy Moore, Russell, Ayer, Quine PHIL 519: Action The relationship between intentional action and mental states	PHIL 415: Philosophy of Language Meaning, necessity, and a prioricity PHIL 201: Introduction to Philosophy
2003-4	PHIL 415: Philosophy of Language	PHIL 370: Problems in Analytic Philosophy Moore, Russell, Wittgenstein, Ayer, Quine PHIL 519: Self-Knowledge Self-knowledge, externalism, & functionalism