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Jill North. t 3.30-5.20 Hu (0) Attempts to explain the temporal asymmetries we experience at the macroscopic level-coffee cools and ice melts, we have memories of the past and not the future, and so on-given that the underlying laws of physics are symmetric in time. Questions include whether it is possible to have a unified explanation for the different asymmetries we experience and whether time has a direction. Consideration of how the probabilities required by the explanations should be understood metaphysically.
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George Bealer. th 1.30-3.20 Hu (0) An examination of the nature of definition and essence, their relation to one another and to modality, whether one of these notions is definitionally prior to the others, and whether any of them must be taken as an ultimate primitive.
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Katalin Balog. t 1.30-3.20 Hu (0) A study of the concept of a person. Exploration of whether our conception of what it is to be a human being is historically conditioned and culture-relative, and whether our conception of ourselves is related to our knowledge and understanding of other people. Discussion of the problem of personal identity over time, i.e., what makes a person the same individual at different times. Implications for ethics, psychology, and the significance of mortality.
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Susanne Bobzien. th 7-8.50 p.m. Hu (0) The contributions of Stoic philosophers to various areas of logic, such as speech act theory, theory of meaning, propositional logic, deductive systems, relevance and modal logic, truth theories, and semantic paradoxes.
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Sun-Joo Shin.
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Jonathan Vogel. t 3.30-5.20 Hu (0) Contemporary approaches to the problem of skepticism about the external world. Focus on neo-Moorean arguments, a priori entitlement, and inference to the best explanation.
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Katalin Balog. w 1.30-3.20 Hu (0) Eastern and Western philosophical approaches to the nature of the self and personal identity. Particular attention to the view that commonsense concepts of the self are somehow defective.
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Bruno Whittle. t 1.30-3.20 Hu (0) Semantic paradoxes and the theories of meaning and truth that address them. Focus on the question of whether one can give adequate accounts of propositions and of truth. Topics include varieties of possible worlds, consistent accounts of structured propositions, and languages that contain their own truth predicates.
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Bruno Whittle. m 1.30-3.20 Hu (0) Metaphysical and epistemological issues raised by mathematics. Questions concerning the notion of a set, whether one can quantify absolutely everything, and whether there are really infinite sets of different sizes; the significance of G?del's incompleteness theorems; arguments designed to show that certain mathematical terms are referentially indeterminate.
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Jonathan Gilmore. f 1.30-3.20 Hu (0) A broad investigation into purported evolutionary and biological explanations for such cultural phenomena as language, morals, politics, and art.
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