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4.00 Credits
An examination of some interconnected issues concerning personal identity and self-consciousness. Topics include the identity of persons over time, introspection, self-reference and bodily awareness.
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4.00 Credits
Do numbers exist? Are statements that attribute moral properties to actions, e.g., 'stealing is wrong' strictly speaking false? Are colors mind-independent properties of objects? Realists and anti-realists give different answers. This course focuses on the realism/anti-realism debate. Our aim is two-fold. To learn more about the status of the debate in fields as diverse as philosophy of mathematics and meta-ethics, and to see if there is a pattern that unifies the various realist/anti-realist positions.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the development of modern moral philosophy from its origins in the natural law theories of Hobbes and Pufendorf to the emergence of the two most influential theories of the modern period, utilitarianism and Kantianism, in the works of Bentham and Kant. Selections from the works of Hobbes, Clarke, Butler, Hutcheson, Hume, Smith, Price, and others.
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4.00 Credits
When is economic inequality morally objectionable, and why? What kind of equality is required by just political institutions? A critical examination of some answers to these questions offered by contemporary philosophers, with special attention to the work of John Rawls.
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4.00 Credits
Critically examines recent philosophical work on questions of racial justice: What is racism? What makes racial discrimination wrong? Are reparations owed for past racial injustices? Is racial profiling ever justified? Under what conditions should we regard racial disparities (e.g., in wealth or employment) as unjust? Should government foster racial integration in schools and neighborhoods? Is affirmative action unfair? Is a just society a "color-blind" society?
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4.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to philosophy. We will focus on the three main areas of concern: epistemology (the theory of knowledge), metphaphysics (the theory of the nature of reality), and ethics (the theory of what we ought to do). You'll be exposed to philosophical modes of argument and inquiry. The course aims as much at developing the skills involved in pursuing these and other philosophical concerns as to acquaint you with particular positions.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of ancient philosophy, with an emphasis on Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and some attention to pre-Socratic and Hellenistic philosophers. Attention will be given to the major ethical, epistemological, and metaphysical theories of the classical period, as well as the development of philosophical methodology. The aim of the course is twofold: to acquaint you with some of the interesting and influential theories of the period and to evaluate their philosophical plausibility.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of 17th- and 18th-century philosophy with a focus on the major metaphysical and epistemological writings of Descartes, Locke, Hume, and Kant. Topics include the natures of mind and body, the physical world, freedom, and human knowledge. Special attention to the rise of mechanistic science (i.e. the "Scientific Revolution").
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4.00 Credits
Graded independent study under faculty supervision. Interested students need approval of head tutor for their topic and must propose a detailed syllabus before the beginning of term.
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4.00 Credits
No course description available.
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