Numbering Code	U-LET01 35143 SJ34	Year/Term	2022 ・ Second semester
Number of Credits	2	Course Type	Seminar
Target Year		Target Student
Language	English	Day/Period	Wed.2
Instructor name	DEGUCHI YASUO (Graduate School of Letters Professor)
Outline and Purpose of the Course	What is self? How is self experienced? What should self be? Those questions are among the most important ones for the Western and Eastern philosophies for millennia. They have been also much discussed in such fields as psychology, cognitive science, psychiatry and sociology. This seminar will explore those questions from the perspectives of contemporary philosophy and Eastern philosophical traditions, focusing on the teacher's own idea of self: Self-as-We, and exploring its applications to numerous topics.
Course Goals	Students can obtain up-to-date knowledge of philosophical discussions in such areas as metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action, phenomenology, and analytic Asian philosophy, and also acquire skills of philosophical argumentation, critical reading of philosophical texts, articulation and presentation of their own ideas.
Schedule and Contents	1 Introduction to philosophy of self: Self as a philosophical question (I) 2 Introduction to philosophy of self: Self as a philosophical question (II) 3 From East Asian True Self to Self-as-We 4 Self-as-We (I): Somatic Agent, Entrustment and Distribution of Agency, Self as Multi-agent System 5 Self-as-We (II): Self as Humanosphere, Self-as-We vs. Self-as-I, Autoheteronomy, un-self-containedness of Agency and We-modes 7 Ethic of Self-as-We (I): Open Self vs. Closed Self 8 Ethics of Self-as-We (II): Fellowship 9 Self-as-We and Dialogical Life 10 Logic of Self-as-We 11 Self-as-We and Incapabilities of Humans 12 Self-as-We and Freedom from Rule 13 Summary
Evaluation Methods and Policy	Report 50% and Performances in classes 50%
Course Requirements	None
Study outside of Class (preparation and review)	Students are expected to attend each class after having read all the materials for discussions.