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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the hierarchy of axioms of infinity in set theory.
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4.00 Credits
This is a proseminar on advanced topics in set theory. The topics will depend on the interests of the participants. Possible topics include: large cardinal axioms, forcing and large cardinals, singular cardinal combinatorics, determinacy, inner model theory.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to recent philosophical thought about language. Topics to include: relations between meaning and truth; the extent to which meaning is determinate and the extent to which it is shared; conceptions of language use as performative or expressive; the idea that there is a gulf between factual and evaluative language.
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4.00 Credits
Philosophical issues concerning mathematics, such as: its degree of certainty and necessity, its being apparently a priori, what reference to objects such as numbers and sets amounts to, the relation of mathematics and logic, whether classical logic can be called into question. Reading of such writers as Frege, Brouwer, Hilbert, Carnap, Quine, and contemporaries.
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4.00 Credits
Survey of 20th century and contemporary views on the nature of scientific knowledge. Topics include: logical empiricism, Popper and "falsifiability", induction and confirmation, explanation, scientific realism, Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend, and the relations between philosophy, history, and sociology of science.
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4.00 Credits
A crowning achievement of 20th century science, quantum mechanics is also bizarre enough to lead intelligent people to claim that the universe perpetually splits into many copies of itself, that conscious minds can make physical systems "jump" unpredictably, that classical logic must be revised, that there is no objective reality, and much, much more. We will separate the wheat of genuine mystery from the chaff of philosophical confusion. No prior knowledge of quantum mechanics required.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of philosophical and empirical work on animal cognition and consciousness. Insects, cephalopods, birds, and mammals will be discussed, along with the role played by language in complex thought.
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4.00 Credits
The mind-body problem and proposed solutions to it, including dualism, behaviorism, identity theories, and functionalism. Theories of consciousness, subjective experience, and the mind's representation of the world. Consideration of how recent work in psychology relates to the philosophical debates.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the influence of motor goals, predictions (including stereotypes), and motives in perception, and their implications for theories of rationality. Readings will be drawn from psychology and philosophy and may include Merleau-Ponty, Gigerenzer, Andy Clark, Jose Bermudez, Dana Ballard, Dennis Proffitt, and Jennifer Eberhardt.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the theory of knowledge. Topics include the problem of induction, external world skepticism and the problem of other minds.
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