Job Postings for Sessional Lecturers

These jobs are posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.

Effective Date for the below positions: April 20, 2005

Closing Date for the below positions: May 19, 2005

How to Submit an Application: Please submit a CV and letter of application to Elizabeth Vanatoru, Philosophy Departmental Assistant at philgen@utm.utoronto.ca.

PHL 247F. Critical Reasoning. Th. 6:30-9:30 PM.

The area of informal logic-the logic of ordinary language, usually non-deductive. Criteria for the critical assessment of arguments as strong or merely persuasive. Different types of argument and techniques of refutation; their use and abuse.

Sept.-Dec. 2005

Estimate of Course Enrolment: 100-150

TA Support: (enrolment - 30) x 1.2 = TA hours

Salary: $5750

Qualifications: PhD in philosophy is preferred, but applicants who have completed all the course work requirements for a PhD in philosophy will also be considered. We are seeking previous experience in teaching, teaching excellence, and mastery of subject area. Previous experience in teaching a similar course is highly desirable.

Duties: preparation and delivery of course material, supervision of teaching assistants, preparation and delivery of assignments, tests and examination, marking of student work, submission of grades to university officials, reasonable student contact hours.

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PHL 324F. The Continental Tradition. T 10-11, R 10-12.

A study of recent traditions of continental philosophy such as phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, critical theory, structuralism and post-structuralism. Figures such as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, the Frankfurt school, Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze and Derrida.

Sept.-Dec. 2005

Estimate of Course Enrolment: 25-40

TA Support: none

Salary: $5750

Qualifications: PhD in philosophy is preferred, but applicants who have completed all the course work requirements for a PhD in philosophy will also be considered. We are seeking previous experience in teaching, teaching excellence, and mastery of subject area. Previous experience in teaching a similar course is highly desirable.

Duties: preparation and delivery of course material, preparation and delivery of assignments, tests and examination, marking of student work, submission of grades to university officials, reasonable student contact hours.

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PHL 344S. Metalogic. T 11-12, R 11-1.

Soundness and completeness of propositional and quantificational logic, undecidability of quantificational logic, and other metalogical topics. Jan.–Apr. 2006

Estimate of Course Enrolment: 25-35

TA Support: none

Salary: $5750

Qualifications: PhD in philosophy is preferred, but applicants who have completed all the course work requirements for a PhD in philosophy will also be considered. We are seeking previous experience in teaching, teaching excellence, and mastery of subject area. Previous experience in teaching a similar course is highly desirable.

Duties: preparation and delivery of course material, preparation and delivery of assignments, tests and examination, marking of student work, submission of grades to university officials, reasonable student contact hours.

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Effective Date for the below positions: April 29, 2005

Closing Date for the below positions: May 27, 2005

How to Submit an Application: Please submit a CV and letter of application to Elizabeth Vanatoru, Philosophy Departmental Assistant at philgen@utm.utoronto.ca.

PHL 342F. Minds and Machines.

Monday 6:30-9:30 PM.

Can machines think and feel? Are human beings simply very complicated organic machines? These questions are discussed in the light of recent work on the simulation of intelligence and purposive behaviour.

Sept. - Dec. 2005

Estimate of Course Enrolment: 70-100

TA Support: (enrolment - 30) x 1.2 = TA hours

Salary: $5750

Qualifications: PhD in philosophy is preferred, but applicants who have completed all the course work requirements for a PhD in philosophy will also be considered. We are seeking previous experience in teaching, teaching excellence, and mastery of subject area. Previous experience in teaching a similar course is highly desirable.

Duties: preparation and delivery of course material, supervision of teaching assistants, preparation and delivery of assignments, tests and examination, marking of student work, submission of grades to university officials, reasonable student contact hours.

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PHL 341S. Practical Reason and Human Action.

Tuesday 6:30-9:30PM.

The course will cover various topics in action theory and the nature of practical reason, such as the nature of intentional action and intentional explanations, the relation between morality and practical reason, the distinction between theoretical and practical reasoning, and the relation between motivation and evaluation.

Jan. - April 2006

Estimate of Course Enrolment: 70-100

TA Support: (enrolment - 30) x 1.2 = TA hours

Salary: $5750

Qualifications: PhD in philosophy is preferred, but applicants who have completed all the course work requirements for a PhD in philosophy will also be considered. We are seeking previous experience in teaching, teaching excellence, and mastery of subject area. Previous experience in teaching a similar course is highly desirable.

Duties: preparation and delivery of course material, preparation and delivery of assignments, tests and examination, marking of student work, submission of grades to university officials, reasonable student contact hours.