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David Foster Wallace and Metaphilosophy

Course Number: PHIL 426
Title: David Foster Wallace and Metaphilosophy
Day & Time 1: T 01:00PM 04:00PM
Instructor I: Janack M
Credit: 1.00
Course Description: David Foster Wallace’s fiction and non-fiction are often read through a philosophical lens, given his deep immersion in the analytic philosophical tradition. This course examines the extent to which Wallace’s work is appropriately read as philosophy, and the question of what demarcates philosophy from fiction and from literary non-fiction. Not open to students who have taken PHIL-326.
Comments: Open to Juniors and Seniors only

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