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Kamm, Lamkin, Staff This course explores important works of western music from diverse historical epochs through listening and selected readings. Elements of music, basic musical terminology, and notation are discussed. Attention is given to the relation of the arts - especially music - toculture and society. Offered every semester. Each ensemble course carries one-half course credit; ensembles may be repeated for credit.
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Kreines This course focuses on major figures in 19th-century European (post-Kantian) philosophy, including readings by Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and others. Topics will include theory of knowledge, morality, theology, and theories of freedom. Offered every other year.
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Obdrzalek This course introduces students to some of the earliest, most profound and most influential thinkers in the Western philosophical tradition. The focus of the course is methodological, its goal to teach students skills which will enable them to develop their own interpretation and critiques of classical philosophical texts. We will focus on the works of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and the Skeptics. Some of the questions we will address will be what philosophy is, what one should aim at in life, what kinds of things exist, and what can be known. Offered every year.
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Kreines This course serves as an introduction to philosophy during the 17th and 18th centuries, the beginning of the modern period. Readings are drawn from central works by philosophers such as Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. We will focus especially on epistemology (including skeptical and anti-skeptical arguments) and metaphysics (including issues concerning the nature of reality, the nature of the mind, freedom of the will, and the existence and nature of God) Offered every year.
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Obdrzalek Plato is considered the first philosopher in the Western tradition to propose significant theories in ethics, moral psychology and political philosophy. This course will focus on a close reading of Platonic dialogues such as the Protagoras, the Republic and the Statesman. We will examine Plato's views on virtue and vice, psychological conflict, our moral obligations to others, and the political role of the philosopher. We will assess Plato's views for their philosophical merit, as well as discuss their influence on subsequent philosophers. Offered every third year.
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Obdrzalek Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most significant texts in the history of philosophy; it has also proved enormously influential in 20th-century ethical theorizing. This course will focus on a close reading of Aristotle's Ethics. We will also assess Aristotle's viewsfor their philosophical merit and discuss their relation to contemporary virtue ethics. Some topics we will focus on will be the relation of virtue to happiness, the role of intellectual activity in the good life, the doctrine of the mean, Aristotle's analysis of weakness of will, and the nature and significance of friendship. Offered every third year.
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1.50 Credits
Kreines An introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy. Topics include Nietzsche's accounts of the problem of nihilism, the eternal recurrence, the death of God, his critique of morality, and his perspectivism. The emphasis will be on Nietzsche's late works. Some discussion of interpretations of Nietzsche by later philosophers. Offered every other year.
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Kreines This course examines the philosophy of Kant. We pay special attention to Kant's influential masterpiece, the Critique of Pure Reason. Topics include the nature and limits of our knowledge, freedom of the will, and Kant's "transcendental idealism." Prerequisite: one previouscourse in philosophy or consent of instructor. Offered every other year. An introduction to the basic questions regarding existence: What is there What is it like Topics include the nature of the self and the mind, the existence of God, particulars and universals, necessity and possibility, the nature of truth and the possibility of free will. Prerequisite: at least one previous course in philosophy or permission of the instructor. Offered every other year.
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Kind Cognitive science is the study of cognition (and specific cognitive capacities, such as reasoning, perception, and language) by researchers in psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science and philosophy. This course introduces the main issues involving the field's unifying concept: information processing. What does it mean to say the mind is a computer What other models of information processing are there How well do these models explain cognitive phenomena Offered occasionally. 133: Philosophy of Science. Staff The philosophical themes this course will investigate include: the scientific method, the difference between science and pseudoscience, explanation, the nature of scientific laws, the role of observation, confirmation and progress. Readings will bring together classic texts by Francis Bacon and René Descartes, as well as contemporary works by Carl G. Hempel, Sir Karl Popper, Thomas S. Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, W.V. Quine, Wesley Salmon, Nancy Cartwright, Hilary Putnam, and Bas C. van Fraasen. Offered occasionally.
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An exploration of problems concerning the nature of the mind. The main topic of the course will be the mind-body problem: Is there a mind (or a soul) that is distinct from the body Related topics include: What is the nature of consciousness Can computers think How can we know of the existence of other minds Offered every other year.
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