Contact Information

Professor:

 Abe Stone (abestone@ucsc.edu)

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Office:

 Cowell Annex A-106

Phone (office):

 459-5723

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Website:

 https://people.ucsc.edu/~abestone/courses

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Office hours:

 Tues. 2–3pm; Thurs. 12–1pm (or by appointment)

Course Requirements

Seminar participation. You should be prepared to ask at least one brief question about the reading, or make at least one brief comment about it or one brief objection to it.

One in-class presentation (approximately 15 minutes). The presentation should be aimed at getting seminar discussion started on a certain day.

One final paper (approximately 15–20 pages), due Wednesday, December 7 (via the Assignments tool on eCommons), on a topic related to the course to be determined by the student (with advice from the instructor if desired).

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You can find answers to some commonly asked questions about my assignments and grading in my FAQ.

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Texts

Texts and editions

Text	Edition	Note
Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy / Meditationes de prima philosophia: A Bilingual Edition	, tr. G. Heffernan (Notre Dame, 1990) (ISBN: 0268013810).
Levinas, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority	, tr. A. Lingis (Duquesne, 1969) (ISBN: 0820702455).

These texts should be available at the Literary Guillotine, and are also on reserve at McHenry. Readings from Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations will be available on eCommons.