M. Heidegger (lectures 1-3)
1. Being-there. Heidegger’s Fundamental Ontology.

Reference texts:

i. Being and Time, §§1-6

ii. T. Carman "What is Fundamental Ontology?"

2. Being-with-Others and Being Lost in Others.

Reference texts:

i. Being and Time, §§25-27 (secondary text: H. Dreyfus:

ii. H. Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World, Chapter 8, The Who of Everyday Dasein

3. Winning Oneself Back through Being-Toward-Death.

Reference texts:

i. Being and Time, §§ 40, 53

ii. T. Carman, Things fall apart: Heidegger on the Constancy and Finality of Death

J.-P. Sartre (lectures 4-6)

4. Phenomena of Being and Being of Phenomena: Sartre’s ontological argument.

Reference texts:

i. J. P. Sartre, Transcendence of ego, pp. 1-12

ii. J. P. Sartre, Being and Nothingness, Introduction: chapters 1-5

5. Nothing but Consciousness: a Basic Sketch of Being-for-itself.

Reference texts:

i. Being and Nothingness, part 1, chapter 1

ii. P. Spade, Lectures on Sartre, pp. 80-93

6. Encountering Others

Reference texts:

i. J. P. Sartre, Being and Nothingness, chapter 3.1.4, Look

ii. J.-P. Sartre, No Exit

M. Merleau-Ponty (lectures 7-9)

7. “Consciousness as a Project of the World:” Merleau-Ponty’s Turn to the Pre-Reflective World

Reference texts:

i. M. Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, Foreword

ii. M. Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, Phenomenal Field

8. Body as Existential Core of Being-in-the-World: Schneider’s Case

Reference texts:

i. Phenomenology of Perception, The Spatiality of One’s Own Body and Motility, pp. 112-145

ii. H. Dreyfus, Merleau-Ponty and Recent Cognitive Science

9. Anonymity and Sharedness: Merleau-Pontian Account of Others

Reference texts:

i. Phenomenology of Perception, Other Selves and the Human World, pp. 403-425

ii. LAU Kwok-ying, Intersubjectivity and Phenomenology of the Other: Merleau-Ponty’s Contribution

Perspectives of Existential Phenomenology (lectures 10-11)

10. Perspectives of Existential Phenomenology I: Pragmatic Readings

Reference texts:

i. M. Wrathall, Making Sense of Human Existence: Heidegger on the Limits of Practical Familiarity

11. Perspectives of Existential Phenomenology II: Neuroscience.

Reference texts:

i. A. Noë, Out of Our Heads, The Paradox of Mind and Science, p. 42-46; Wide Minds, pp. 61-82