P.D. Magnus

This is a list of graduate seminars in which I participated while I was a graduate student at UCSD. I contributed to discussions and did presentations in all of these; I wrote papers or the equivalent for those marked with an asterisk. In addition to seminars and colloquia, I participated in a great number of reading groups— long-running pragmatism, existentialism, and philosophy of science reading groups, as well as groups focused on Robert Brandom, Thomas Reid, Charles Taylor, Timothy Williamson, the Chisholm/Sellars correspondence, etc.

Fall 1996

• Science Studies core seminar^* (Steve Epstein, Sandra Mitchell)
• 20th-century Aesthetics^* (Mary Devereux)
• Theories of Causality^* (Clark Glymour)
• Socrates and the Pre-socratics (Georgios Anagnostopoulos)

  Winter 1997

• Issues in Science Studies^* (Martin Rudwick, Philip Kitcher)
• Philosophy of Science (Philip Kitcher)
• Heidegger's Being and Time^* (Fred Olafson)
• Husserl's Logical Investigations (Wayne Martin)

  Spring 1997

• Nietzsche's Genealogy^* (Michael Hardimon)
• Distributed Cognition^* (Ed Hutchins)
• Godel's Incompleteness Theorem^* (Gila Sher)
• Kant's Critique of Judgement (Henry Allison)

  Fall 1997

• Kant's Critique of Pure Reason^* (Patricia Kitcher)
• What are theories?^* (Paul Churchland)
• Phenomenology and the Crisis of the Sciences^* (Wayne Martin)

  Winter 1998

• Set Theory I^* (Sam Buss)
• Marx and Contemporary Political Theory^* (Fred Neuhouser, Gerald Doppelt)
• Laws of Nature and the Unity of Science (Sandra Mitchell)

  Spring 1998

• Set Theory II (Sam Buss)
• Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics^* (Clark Glymour)
• Plato and Aristotle^* (Georgios Anagnostopoulos)
• Locke (Nicholas Jolley)

  Fall 1998

• Survey of the Sociology of Science^* (Steven Shapin)
• First Person Authority (Steve Yalowitz)

  Winter 1999

• Spinoza (Nicholas Jolley)
• Philosophy of Economics (Nancy Cartwright)

  Spring 1999

• Science, Truth, and Democracy (Philip Kitcher)

  Fall 1999

• Quine (Gila Sher)
• Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (Jeffrey Bub)

  Winter 2000

• Science and the State (Naomi Oreskes, Martha Lampland)

  Spring 2000

• History of Rationality (Clark Glymour)

  Summer 2000

• Directed reading: On Certainty (Avrum Stroll)

  Fall 2000

• Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Thomas Sturm)
• Directed reading: C.S. Pierce (Naomi Oreskes)

  Winter 2001

• Varieties of Reference (Rick Grush)

  Spring 2001

• Directed Reading: C.S. Peirce and William James (Naomi Oreskes)

  Fall 2001

• Strawson's metaphysics (Rick Grush)

  Spring 2002

• Philosophy of Biology (Jay Odenbaugh)

  Fall 2002

• Philosophy of Science (Gerald Doppelt, Craig Callender)

  Winter 2003

• Science and Planning (Steve Shapin, Naomi Oreskes)

  Spring 2003

• Kant's Philosophy of Science (Eric Watkins)