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3.00 Credits
Phenomenology of Light and Built Space Spring 2009. Three credits. James Dodd This course is an introduction to classical phenomenological philosophy and to the fundamentals of phenomenological practice, with particular emphasis on the theory of perception, the problems of time and space, and the theory of meaning. The set of specific problems and questions of interpretation for this introduction will be the manifold role that light plays in the built world. Could the classical phenomenological themes of presence and absence, expression and meaning, phenomenality and being be employed to frame a research program on the architecture and design of light And, in turn, could a sophisticated understanding of what is implicit in our capacity to design the experiential feel of built space reopen the very question of the being and essence of phenomenality, and with that its fundamental relation to human existence and action
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3.00 Credits
Aristotle's Ethics Spring 2009. Three credits. Claudia Baracchi In this course we focus on Aristotle's ethical treatises, but also consider the Politics and other texts of the Aristotelian corpus (most notably, the Metaphysics and the treatises of the Organon). Thanks to this exploration, we illuminate the indissoluble intertwinement of practical and theoretical wisdom (phronesis and sophia) as well as, concomitantly, that of praxis and theoria in Aristotle's thinking.
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3.00 Credits
American Pragmatism Fall 2008. Three credits. Richard J. Bernstein This lecture focuses on the origins of major themes of classical pragmatism including the nature of inquiry, community, warranted assertability, truth, signs, and democracy. Readings will include texts by Pierce, James, Dewey, and Mead.
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W ittgenstein and the Representation of Life Fall 2008. Three credits. Alice Crary This course focuses on a reading of the Philosophical Investigations, with special emphasis on Wittgenstein's treatment of the notion of life.
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Plotinus Fall 2008. Three credits. Dmitri Nikulin Late antiquity was often considered the time of decline and lack of originality, producing only copious commentaries on texts by great thinkers of the classical age. Contemporary studies, however, suggest a very different picture-not that of decline, but of an insightful and original epoch, often unsurpassed in subtlety of philosophical analysis and innovation, in many ways anticipating and similar to our own age. The central figure in late ancient philosophy is Plotinus, who was the first to introduce certain themes (such as the structure of the existent, infinity, transcendence and immanence, discursive and non-discursive thinking, etc.) in such a way that they became dominant in medieval philosophy (Augustine and Aquinas), the Renaissance (Ficino and Pico della Mirandola), and modernity (Schelling and Hegel). The readings for this class include various Enneads that discuss beauty, the constitution of the soul, the structure of the intellect, and the one and the many.
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3.00 Credits
Spinoza's Philosophy in Overview Fall 2008. Three credits. Yirmiyahu Yovel The lecture will cover most of Spinoza's intellectual development and offer an analysis of most of his works, with the Ethics at the center. This will include main issues in metaphysics, epistemology, method, the scientific revolution, psychology, the two levels of ethics, the critique and re-shaping of religion, and Spinoza's social and political thought. The concept of a "philosophy ofimmanence" will serve as the organizing principle of the discussion, and also an object of critical appraisal.
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Aesthetics of Modernity Fall 2008. Three credits. Christoph Menke The course deals with two phases of modern aesthetics that at first view seem to bear no direct relation: in its first part with debates in the 18th century, prior to Kant, and in its second part with contemporary debates, after Adorno. Thus the first part of the course aims at a historical reconstruction of the original impulse for the development of the new philosophical discipline of aesthetics which can be seen in the concept of "force" (over against "capacity"We will discuss texts by Leibniz, Baumgarten, Herder, Burke, Mendelssohn, with an outlook on Kant and Nietzsche. In the second part of the course we will discuss texts by Agamben, Danto, Derrida, Luhmann, Deleuze, and Rancière, in order to reflect the contemporary interpretation, and relevance, of the originary ideas of philosophical aesthetics.
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Time, Being, Interpretation Spring 2009. Three credits. Alan Bass Interpretation is the central therapeutic measure of psychoanalysis, yet there has been very little reflection within psychoanalysis about its philosophical presuppositions. The course will first examine how and why interpretation arose and developed within psychoanalysis, and will look at the clinical limits of interpretation. Then it will proceed to Nietzsche and Heidegger on the metaphysical limits of interpretation, and their consequent rethinking of it. The focus will be on Heidegger, from Being and Time through the Zollikon Seminars ( his most sustained encounter with psychoanalysis) and his late work on language. Can the rethinking of interpretation in relation to time and being inform the psychoanalytic practice of interpretation
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The Idea of History in the Twentieth Century Fall 2008. Three credits. Agnes Heller In this lecture we will discuss some of the more important contributions to the philosophy of history in the twentieth century. We begin by reading Lukacs' essay "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat" fro m History andClass Consciousness. We will continue by considering Collingwood's The Idea of History, Popper's The Poverty of Historicism, and selections from Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason and the work of Michel Foucault.
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3.00 Credits
Mind and Reality Spring 2009. Three credits. Alice Crary This seminar concentrates on the writings of Wilfrid Sellars, John McDowell and Robert Brandom. A close reading of their work focuses on Kantian, Hegelian and Pragmatic themes as they pertain to mind, language and world.
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