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Fall 2007. LAWRENCE H. SIMON. How should one live What is the good What is my duty What is the proper method for doing ethics The fundamental questions of ethics are examined in the classic texts of Aristotle, Hume, Mill, and Kant.
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Spring 2008. LAWRENCE H. SIMON Examines some of the major issues and concepts in political philosophy, including freedom and coercion, justice, equality, and the nature of liberalism. Readings primarily from contemporary sources.
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Every fall. Fall 2006. SCOTT R. SEHON. The central problem of logic is to determine which arguments are good and which are bad. To this end, we introduce a symbolic language and rigorous, formal methods for seeing whether one statement logically implies another. We apply these tools to a variety of arguments, philosophical and otherwise. We also demonstrate certain theorems about the formal system we construct.
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Philosophy of Space and Time
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Spring 2008. DENIS CORISH. A historical and methodological study of scientific thought as exemplified in the natural sciences. Against a historical background ranging from the beginnings of early modern science to the twentieth century, such topics as scientific inquiry, hypothesis, confirmation, scientific laws, theory, and theoretical reduction and realism are studied. Readings include such authors as Duhem, Hempel, Kuhn, Popper, Putman, and Quine, as well as classical authors such as Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Berkeley, and Leibniz.
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Epistemology
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Fall 2006. MATTHEW STUART. Surveys some of the "Greatest Hits" of philosophy in the twentieth century. Particularattention is given to theories about the nature of physical reality and our perceptual knowledge of it, and to theorizing about the nature of philosophy itself. Topics include G.E. Moore's philosophy of common sense, Bertrand Russell's logical atomism, logical positivism, Quine's radical empiricism, Wittgenstein, the ordinary language movement, Kripke's theoryof reference, and the re-emergence of metaphysics.
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Fall 2007. MATTHEW STUART. Philosophy of language is a point of intersection for a great many traditional philosophical concerns, including the nature and status of morality, the nature of mind, the existence of God, and the objectivity of science. Answers to these problems ultimately depend in part upon the nature of language, theories, evidence, and meaning. Analyzes and evaluates what the best philosophers of the twentieth century have said about these questions.
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Fall 2006. MATTHEW STUART.
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