Jeff Speaks
Professor of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
contact
205 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
[email]
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[curriculum vitae]
teaching
PHIL 13195: Honors philosophy seminar (fall 2013)
PHIL 20208: Minds, brains, and persons (fall 2006)
PHIL 20229: Paradoxes (spring 2014)
PHIL 20810: Philosophical theology (spring 2013)
PHIL 30304: Gateway seminar on consciousness (spring 2018)
PHIL 43503: Philosophy of action (fall 2008)
PHIL 43904: Origins of analytic philosophy (spring 2008)
PHIL 43916: Natural language semantics (fall 2014)
PHIL 83104: Proseminar on 20th century philosophy (fall 2011)
PHIL 93414: Meaning (spring 2008)
PHIL 93503: Properties, Relations, & Propositions (with Daniel Nolan) (fall 2023)
PHIL 93507: Perception (spring 2012) (spring 2010)
PHIL 93515: Language and mind (spring 2007)
at McGill
PHIL 201: Introduction to philosophy (spring 2006)
PHIL 370: Problems in analytic philosophy (fall 2004)
PHIL 415: Philosophy of language (winter 2005)
PHIL 515: Perception and intentionality (winter 2006)
PHIL 519: Action and mental states (fall 2004)
PHIL 519: Externalism and self-knowledge (winter 2004)
PHIL 682: Proseminar on meaning (with Jim McGilvray) (fall 2005)
some recent
papers



Various people have told me that they have found my course handouts useful. Since Notre Dame is deprecating the web space where many have been hosted in the past, I thought that it might be useful for some to have them here. Feel free to use them as you would like.

But, N.B.: these are just course handouts, many written in an afternoon. The level of care in citing relevant sources and covering all relevant points of view is not what one should expect from a published paper. They were written with the aim of explaining material to a (usually undergraduate) class. Many of them are also now quite old and so (obviously) do not take account of literature which postdates the class. Also, I have changed my mind about some things over the years and regard some past handouts with something approaching horror. So, use at your own risk!