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Contemporary Philosophy:
Here's a partial list of projects that you might want to choose
from for research work or class presentations:
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Additional Major Figures. There are many prominent 20th century
thinkers omitted from this course. Depending upon your interests, you may
want to pursue one or more of the following:
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Karl Jaspers - a religious existentialist
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William James - a "foundational" thinking in psychology, one of
the founders of modern pragmatism and an important philosopher of religion
to boot.
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Hans-George Gadamer - important for theory of interpretation
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Jurgen Habermas - important Critical Theorist (heirs to Marxian
social theory) and philosopher of communication
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Albert Camus - a contemporary of Sartre's
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Michel Foucault - contemporary postmodern social theorist
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Additional Trends and Movements. You may want to look at postmodern
feminism, or follow the development of contemporary pragmatism.
You could look at the articifical intelligence research program
and follow more arguments in contempoary philosophy of mind.
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Connections to other disciplines. Modernism and Postmodernism are
broad categories that run across discipline boundaries. You could research
or present findings on the connections between philosophical thought in
the twentieth century and virtually any other discipline. See me for resources.
