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PQ: Consent of instructor. Class limited to twenty students. What is it about us, or about the world, that makes us prone to initiating changes in it The question of why we do anything at all is a question about the nature of desire, a subject on which Plato had a lot to say. In this seminar, we try to think, with Plato and Socrates, about the relationship between desire, pleasure, goodness, and action. Readings come from Plato's Philebus, Symposium, Gorgias, Republic, and Protagoras. A. Callard. Winter.
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PQ: Open to students who are majoring in Fundamentals or Philosophy, or with consent of instructor. This seminar is a careful reading of Concluding Unscientific Postscript. This difficult text was written by Johannes Climacus, who was one of Kierkegaard's pseudonymous authors. Discussion questions include: What is subjectivity What is irony What is commitment J. Lear. Winter.
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This course looks carefully at some of Sellars's most important philosophical writings, especially Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind and Science and Metaphysics. We close with a brief look at Naturalism and Ontology. We explore Sellars's disagreements with some of his contemporaries (e.g., Lewis, Ayer, Schlick, Chisolm), as well as disagreements about how best to interpret him that have arisen amongst his contemporary commentators (e.g., Brandom, Rosenberg, McDowell, Williams, de Vries). J. Conant. Winter. (B)
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3.00 Credits
No more than two tutorials may be used to meet program requirements. Topics for this small, discussion-oriented seminar vary. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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Substance metaphysics from the early modern period, from Descartes to Leibniz, is sometimes presented under the heading "causal rationalism." It is true that the conception of causality in the early modern philosophers constitutes a key to understanding their systems. This seminar retraces the most important chapters in this complex story concerning causality and rationality in seventeenth-century continental philosophy. We study primary texts by the most prominent figures in the early modern tradition, from the neo-scholastic Suarez, through Descartes, Malebranche, and Spinoza to Leibniz . M. Laerke. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Consent of instructor. This is a course in the science of logic. It presupposes a knowledge of the use of truth-functions and quantifiers as tools: such as the art of logic. Our principal task in this course is to study these tools in a systematic way. We cover the central theorems about first-order logic with identity: completeness, compactness, and L wenheim- Skolem theorems. We introduce any necessary set-theoretic and mathematical apparatus as required. Staff. Spring. ( B)
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Open only to students in the Intensive Track. Topics for this small, discussion-oriented seminar vary. C. Vogler. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Consent of director of undergraduate studies. Required of fourth-year students who are writing a senior essay. This seminar meets during Winter and Spring Quarters; however, students register for it in either Autumn or Winter Quarter. NOTE: Students may not register for both PHIL 29901 and 29902 in the same quarter. Autumn, Winter. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Consent of director of undergraduate studies. Required of fourth-year students who are writing a senior essay. Students participate in both Winter and Spring Quarters, but register only once in either Autumn or Winter Quarter. NOTE: Students may not register for both PHIL 29901 and 29902 in the same quarter. Winter, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
The problem of free will is one of the most vexing philosophical problems. On the one hand, human agents seem to be free to choose among different courses of action. On the other hand, there is strong evidence that a combination of factors such as upbringing, unconscious desires, social conditions, and neural processes determines our choices. It seems that they cannot both be true. Is there no free will Or do these factors not fully determine our choices Is there, perhaps, a middle ground, a kind of determination that leaves room for freedom In this course, we ask what we mean when we say that we are free. The course surveys a variety of conflicting accounts of human freedom offered by philosophers. Readings include works by Immanuel Kant, David Hume, A. J. Ayer, Harry Frankfurt, Peter van Inwagen, Peter Strawson, Theodore Dreiser, Richard Wright, and B. F. Skinner. T. Land, Spring.
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